Comcast is beginning a test of a
data usage meter in Portland, Oregon and will roll it out nationally after testing is completed. It will be available on their Customer Central site and will measure
all usage over a cable modem. The current maximum usage allowed by Comcast is 250 Gb per month. To reach that number, a customer would have to do any
one of the following:
Send 50 million plain text e-mails (at 5KB/e-mail)
Download 62,500 songs (at 4 MB/song)
Download 125 standard-definition movies (at 2 GB/movie)
Upload 25,000 hi-resolution digital photos (at 10 MB/photo)
Median usage for customers is 2 - 4 Gb per month.