en a week is remaining from the day which "Comcast" has announced .... the day from when they are gonna put " The Cap " on the internet usage !!! ... Comcast , the largest ISP of North America , is already accused by FCC , for throttling p2p application usage illegally !!!This "Cap" limit will be of 250Gigs per month ... which is "extremly large amount of data" -- saying officials of comcast ... Comcast customers that make heavy use of their Internet connections are sure to find themselves somewhat alarmed at the prospect of being capped. After all, perfectly legal things like movies from iTunes and Netflix, online music stores, massive software updates, and other media-heavy applications do suck up a lot of bandwidth. Comcast insists that the 250GB cap is enough to send some 50 million e-mails, download 62,500 songs, or download 125 standard-definition movies. Okay, so if a cap is going to be enforced, 250GB isn't that bad. It beats the 60GB caps and lower caps seen elsewhere in North America and it's a nice change from the company's previous etherial and mysterious caps. Still, investing in the infrastructure necessary to alleviate the need for caps is a better option for everyone involved.
In a statement e-mailed to Ars, Free Press called the caps "relatively high," but said they were also an indictment of current US broadband policy. "If the United States had genuine broadband competition, Internet providers would not be able to profit from artificial scarcity‚ they would invest in their networks to keep pace with consumer demand," said Free Press research director S. Derek Turner. "Unfortunately, Americans will continue to face the consequences of this lack of competition until policymakers get serious about policies that deliver the world-class networks consumers deserve". In May when the cap was first rumored, there was also buzz that Comcast might try to charge customers $15 for every 10GB they went over the limit.
The company has also joined in with other ISPs in trying to devise a P2P user's bill of right and contemplated the use of P4P software.
