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FCC can't even enforce net-neutrality, they certainly will not be able to do a darn thing about caps (if they even really care).

250 GB cap seems huge to me though, unless maybe you have a multi-user household. I have a 50 GB cap but it doesn't seem to be enforced (yet).

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250 GB is very roughly* about 12 movies worth of Netflix. Higher than the average user will use but nowhere near "huge" or unreasonable usage.

*(depends upon bitrate, sd vs hd, etc, so YMMV).

It's 2.16 GB/hour at the highest bitrate Netflix streams HD. That's 115 hours to hit 250 GB. At two hours per movie that's 57 HD movies a month.

Sigh... I meant to upmod, not downmod.

I'd argue that it's much more than 12. That would be ~20 GB/movie. I don't think Netflix's HD streaming is anywhere near Blu-ray quality. My roommates stream Netflix all day long and our usage has yet to break 200 GB. Not that I'm defending Comcast...

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