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Anybody else get a letter from Comcast?

chilly willy — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 01:52:53 GMT

I got this the other day in my mail.

[quote] Dear Comcast High-Speed Internet Customer,

We appreciate your business and strive to provide you with the best online experience possible. One of the ways we do this is through our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP). The AUP outlines acceptable use of our service as well as steps we take to protect our customers from things that can negatively impact their experience online. This policy has been in place for many years and we update it periodically to keep it current with our customers' use of our service.

On October 1, 2008, we will post an updated AUP that will go into effect at that time.

In the updated AUP, we clarify that monthly data (or bandwidth) usage of more than 250 Gigabytes (GB) is the specific threshold that defines excessive use of our service. We have an excessive use policy because a fraction of one percent of our customers use such a disproportionate amount of bandwidth every month that they may degrade the online experience of other customers.

250 GB/month is an extremely large amount of bandwidth and it's very likely that your monthly data usage doesn't even come close to that amount. In fact, the threshold is approximately 100 times greater than the typical or median residential customer usage, which is 2 to 3 GB/month. To put it in perspective, to reach 250 GB of data usage in one month a customer would have to do any one of the following:

* Send more than 50 million plain text emails (at 5 KB/email);
* Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song); or
* Download 125 standard definition movies (at 2 GB/movie).

And online gamers should know that even the heaviest multi- or single-player gaming activity would not typically come close to this threshold over the course of a month.

In addition to modifying the excessive use policy, the updated AUP contains other clarifications of terms concerning reporting violations, newsgroups, and network management. To read some helpful FAQs, please visit http://help.comcast.net/content/faq/Frequently-Asked-Questions-about-Excessive-Use.

Thank you again for choosing Comcast as your high-speed Internet provider.
This is a service-related email. Comcast will occasionally send you service-related emails to inform you of service upgrades or new benefits to your Comcast High-Speed Internet service.

Copyright 2008. Comcast. All other trademarks are properties of their respective owners.

Comcast respects your privacy. For a complete description of our privacy policy, click here.

Comcast
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Philadelphia, PA 19103
Attn: CHSI
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Which version of Windows Vista?

Overclocked — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 08:26:34 GMT

Well i was just wondering which version of the new OS was most common!:D

CD/DVD Burning software options

ronxp2000 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 12:13:43 GMT

I am still using Nero 6.6xxx

I never made the move to version 7 as it started bloating, and now version 8 is really bloated.

Besides Nero and Roxio, what CD/DVD buring packages do you like that are neat, compact, non-bloated, simple, yet do everything you need?

Thanks.

Vote for your prefered security suites, Antivirus, Firewall

Anwar — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 07:39:05 GMT

I want to know which one is best only thank you!:)

MAC or WIN? vote now!

Overclocked — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 09:12:31 GMT

Which company has a better OS? Win or Apple.

What Color car do you drive?

Steve Sinchak — Sat, 22 Jul 2006 21:42:26 GMT

What Color car do you drive? I'm blue.

How fast is my new Laptop?

Overclocked — Tue, 26 Feb 2008 21:14:28 GMT

Hi everyone. Here's the specs for my new laptop

Core 2 Duo T7500

2 Gig ram

nVidia Geoforce 8800

1680 by 1050 Resolution

320 gig HDD

Soundblaster audio

Vista Ultimate and Office 2007 Ultimate.

Whose "buying" Windows Vista on Day One ?

windowszvista — Thu, 13 Jul 2006 22:53:45 GMT

Will you "buy" Vista ?

New Comp rate me

therushnkid — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 12:27:27 GMT

to start off, most of this computer is new accept the processor and ram, i would have upgrade to a 2xcore but i heh i wanted a new comp to bad.

Case:NZXT Adamas Series Black

Mobo:Biostar TForce4SLI socket 939

Processor:AMD 3800+ 2.4GHz

Memory:1GB Kingston Duel Channel ValueRam(Upgrading to Corsair XMS 2GB dual channel soon)

Harddrive:2x160GB Western Digital raid 0

Video Card:XFX Geforce 7950GT 512MB(will be adding another one on soon)

Monitor:2x Hanns 19" widescreen 5ms

Power Supply:ePower 650watt SLI PSU

CD/DVD Drives:Plextor PX-755SA 16x DVD burner and lite one CD/DVD rom drive

Speakers: Logitech 5300 5.1 (from old comp but they still are nice so oh well)

so what does everyone think let me know because i like hearing what other people think...sometimes haha

Mac Or PC????

smiley20 — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:05:01 GMT

Im buying a new laptop and im debating between a mac book or windows vista. Which is better?

Do You like trying to make youre winxp look like a mac?

omnihacker — Sun, 21 Jan 2007 17:42:04 GMT

Do You like trying to make youre winxp look like a mac?:P

My Fault ?

shawninseattle — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 12:17:46 GMT

Okay....here is the deal. I'm 42 years old, and never have had to use my house or car insurance. I'm lucky in that sense. I also have never sued anyone, nor have I been sued.

Yesterday I stopped off at a MAJOR oil change business and had my oil changed. I took my laptop into the lobby and did some work while they changed my oil. When I got back into the car, I put the laptop bag back into the car (on the floor in the back seat) and took off.

The next stop I had was at Starbucks to grab a coffee (I do live in Seattle after all). I went in and got my coffee and came back to the car. I noticed when I got in, that the back door was a little 'ajar' and then of course noticed that laptop bag was GONE. How did they get into the car? When I got my oil changed, they vacuumed out the car. When they did this, they reached back and unlocked the back doors to vacuum. After they were done vacuuming, they never locked them again. Gone was a $200 leather laptop bag, my laptop, some software, some personal papers, powercords....etc.

So...what do I do? Is it my fault for not checking all my locks when I got out? Is it their fault for leaving MY doors unlocked? I'm at a loss.

By the way...the car does NOT have powerlocks.

Internet Connection Type?

chilly willy — Thu, 05 Jan 2006 21:58:52 GMT

How do you connect to the Internet?

I have Comcast cable 6Mb up 768kb down @ U.S$45

Location

click — Thu, 24 Jun 2004 15:24:15 GMT

The Good Old U.S.A here.

Golfers?

chilly willy — Mon, 03 Apr 2006 00:41:32 GMT

I play, I was playing 3 or 4 times a week. they say practice makes perfect. my handycap is still way up there. at about 45