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[ NNSquad ] Comcast confirms that usage caps apply to Mozy backup service
Comcast confirms that usage caps apply to Mozy backup service Comcast has confirmed to me that users of its promoted Mozy-based backup service are subject to the regular bandwidth usage caps and traffic management throttling for that usage. This means that subscribers to the top tier 200GB plan could approach the 250GB monthly limit. Perhaps of more interest, as some observers have noted, is the fact that such promotions would presumably create vast amounts of new upstream data traffic, on a network that Comcast has already declared to be sufficiently loaded as to require traffic throttling techniques. True, most conventional user traffic is downstream, and most file backup traffic is upstream -- but then again cable-based Internet networks are typically configured to significantly favor the former in terms of capacity. There doesn't seem to be much technical difference between the Comcast-promoted version of Mozy and the generally available version, except perhaps for a new "file sharing" feature. This article describing that feature: http://bit.ly/anLlwj (Yahoo) asserts that the new Comcast-promoted version of "sharing" Mozy costs $9.99/mo ($99/yr) for up to 200GB of storage. But the conventional (presumably "non-sharing") version of Mozy (apparently not promoted by Comcast), reportedly costs $4.95/mo for unlimited storage. --Lauren-- NNSquad Moderator