Recently net neutrality ended and now we have 250 GB/Month bandwidth caps as Comcast customers. I'm not worried about ever hitting that cap, but I am worried about the cap tightening over the next couple of years.
Everyone talks about Google and Facebook's control over their information, but I don't hear enough concern about ISPs' collective control over access to information.
I don't consider a bandwidth cap applied univerally to be a violation of net neutrality. There may or may not be a legitimate justification for it, but it's still treating all traffic the same. The violation would be if they charged/extorted sites like Netflix or YouTube to collect payments in exchange for traffic to them not counting against the cap.
For what it's worth, Comcast is already extorting (or at least trying to extort) Netflix for payments.
I'm still under a 100GB softcap right now (hardcap is 160GB, but I have to pay more for everything inbetween), I had to reinstall a machine and wipe out my Steam folder due to corruption.
I have about 300 games in steam, I blew through my cap once last month (in two nights, which are 50% off on the bandwidth counter) and this month I'm already at 96.8GB due to leaving Steam unattended for two nights again. And I'm nowhere near done re-downloading my games.
I don't normally come close to exceeding the cap, but once in a while in freak events it's very easy to blow through a few hundred gigs in a month. I miss uncapped connections.
Last year my quota was 60GB, 1-2 years before that it was 25, so on and so forth.