When I first read about Comcast’s plans to do a 250 GB cap, I was
upset. After all, I believe that a lot of the success that has come
from the internet has come from these unlimited plans. AOL back in the
day with unlimited dial-up, eventually broadband services also being
flat fee. These are all things which allowed the internet to grow at
the rate it has.

That being said, 250GB/ month is a LOT of
bandwidth. Right now, at home I average probably around 1 GB /day and
at MOST have hit 5 GB on any particular day. You can see perspective
from SAI here.

This
means the type of person to be affected isn’t me. In fact, at 250GB a
month, that’s practically business users (and i would not be surprised
by business’s which use less than that).

Some fears:

1. It works too well and they drop the cap.
2. This limits future developments of the internet.

Still, the number seems quite fair. They should just have a higher dollar amount cost for unlimited. I prefer this significantly more than the Time Warner Cable version where they start charging by usage from beginning.