Previously. Their cap was '90 Gigs' a month before warnings go out for disconnection.
This is personal experience. My brother lives in the DC area and have comcast. When him and his roommate broke 90 gigs that 2nd month they moved in. Guess 1st month they were still too busy setting up and moving in.
They called and said they used 120 gigs that month and they would be disconnected if they use heavy p2p. Techs said to keep it under 'unofficially' 90 gigs a month.
They haven't gotten another warning since. But I do know they try to limit their massive indiscriminate downloads now. I still do just mass download stuff regardless but I'm on FIOS and waste such bandwidth.
From what I can see. 250 is plenty if you coming from the old caps and BS. People coming from lower bandwidth connections (DSL/ASDL/...) would probably not give a crap either. But people coming from FIOS would be the ones to make the most noise. The average user will most likely not hit that cap. I honestly doubt no more then 5% of their users will have any issue with 250gigs. And that's being generious. They have their top 1% of users even coming close to that number.
But it really doesn't matter. Not saying if the policy is right or not. It does seem like it's the opening shots for them to offer and raise prices in the future tho. From a business standpoint it's smart I guess. If I were them, I would love to disconnect the top 1%~5% of heavy users. Chances are they were the ones I'm losing money on. But if they do that, then next month the old 5~10% would be the new 1~5% and do they cut them off next?
