How does Comcast define “excessive use”?
Comcast has set a data consumption threshold (“threshold”) on monthly bandwidth consumption (including both upstream and downstream usage) by residential users of its high-speed Internet service (“XFINITY Internet”). Currently, that threshold allows a residential customer to send or receive up to 250 Gigabytes (GB) of data in a calendar month. This includes data in any form (including movies, photos, music, videos, e-mails, computer back-ups, or other types of files) that a customer uses his or her XFINITY Internet to send or receive over the public Internet, including data sent by one XFINITY Internet customer to another. If an XFINITY Internet residential customer exceeds the 250 GB threshold in a month, we consider that to be “excessive use” for purposes of our Acceptable Use Policy [http://www.comcast.com/Corporate/Customers/Policies/HighSpeedInternetAUP.html]. For about 99 percent of our residential customers, the threshold presents no issue whatsoever, as the median monthly data
