The largest Internet service provider (ISP) in the USA, Comcast, is set to begin capping bandwidth usage of their residential customers effective October 1st.

The ISP is going to cap bandwidth for their residential customers at 250 gb a month.  This would be the equivalent of 125 standard definition movies, or 50 million emails.  In other words, about 99% of their customers will never come close to that amount of bandwidth in a month.  For those that do use that much, if you go over for one month they will call and warn you, if you go over twice in six month period, you will be banned for 1 year from the provider.

They say this new policy has been enacted to make sure all customers have a pleasant Internet surfing experience, but the truth is that they just don’t want to build more infrastucture to handle additional Internet demands.  More and more devices in our home are demanding Internet usage, and by Comcast capping the bandwidth, they are essentially saying that all that has to stop.  Well, welcome to the 21st century, it’s only going to get worse.

Pretty much everywhere in the world offers faster Internet speeds than we do, with unlimited usage and at a lower price than we charge in the USA.  Something is not right here, and it’s time to tell the ISPs how wrong they are getting this and they are essentially going backwards.