Comcast's speedier Internet--and its limits

>> Comcast's new, super, ultra mega, extreme high speed internet service is starting to roll out - in Philly and Boston in the coming weeks and 10 other markets soon after. This isn't your ordinary internet connection. They call it wideband, not broadband. Fast enough to download a movie in minutes instead of hours, or upload photos in a matter of seconds. But wait - isn't this the same company that just informed customers of a bandwidth cap? Now they're trying to sell us on a faster connection that will enable us to do even more? Well maybe not too much more. In all fairness, Comcast says that a 250 gigabyte data ceiling is very high and that very few customers every reach it. Okay, but how are you supposed to know how much data you're using from month to month? There's really no way to track it. I know how to figure out how much water, electricity, or even cell phone minutes are being used every month, but I have no idea how much data was used by that 30 minute Skype video chat. Silicon Valley innovators keep offering more and more cool stuff to take advantage of the faster connections. Eventually we're going to start using every one of those 260 gigs, and then some. I'm not bashing Comcast for rolling out faster services. They're ahead of the game and setting the stage for even more online innovation. I'm not even bashing them for imposing a cap on usage. Until users start complaining about over the cap charges, it's really not a big problem. Still they have to recognize that opening the doors to wideband internet will only encourage customers to do more with that internet connection. Unless they open it up and let us run wild on ultra mega fast connections, they really need to start developing ways for us to track our own usage.