Comcast offers 50 Mbps...for an hour and a half a month.

Let me preface this by saying I hate comcast. They don't show up for apointments, don't respond to emails, and just all around suck. Problem is they don't have any competition where I live (oh please FiOS...please!!).

So Comcast has been running ads on tv around here lately offering service with up to 50 Mbps for $99 a month. But this made me think of a few years back when people accused Comcast of throttling their speeds, which Comcast denied and eventually conceded "yeah maybe but but... 9/11... AMERICA... Terrorists!". Anyway, that'll never pan out because Comcast spends more on lobbyist than you or I do, but I digress.

So what meaningful came from the throttling incident? Well, as of Oct 1 2008 Comcast limits your monthly incoming traffic to 250 GB per second. But whats get me is this, you can pay extra to get 50 Mb per second, but only get 250 Gb a month. 1 Gb = 1024 Mb, so, if you were to sit on some traffic that heavy, you'd run up your limit in 85.33 minutes. Stupid Comcast.