The name is Comcast who recently announced that they will limit the monthly bandwidth usage of their customers to 250 Gigabytes per month starting from October 1. Comcast did contact customers who did go beyond that limit in the past asking them to reduce their bandwidth usage which would be suspended if they did not.

Starting from October 1 customers who go beyond the 250 Gigabyte limit will receive a notification about their monthly bandwidth usage and a clear message that their account will be suspended if they go over the limit again in the next six months.

That leads to the question which is at the same time the title of the article: How much bandwidth do you need? Would you be able to stay under the 250 Gigabyte limit? I honestly have to answer that I won’t be able to stay under the limit. While 250 Gigabytes do seem a lot it becomes less if you divide it by the days of the month. A little bit more than 8 Gigabytes per day are available to the user.

If you watch high definition content on the Internet you will reach that limit easily. If you download videos, DVDs or use P2P you will also reach that limit. A lot of users will reach that limit, not only P2P users which anyone would suggest to be the only affected users.

So, how much bandwidth do you need per day / month?