PSA: Comcast's new data cap policy has come into effect.

If you live in these areas you're dealing with Comcast's nonsense now.

• Alabama (excluding the Dothan market)
• Arizona
• Arkansas
• Florida (Fort Lauderdale, the Keys, and Miami)
• Georgia (excluding Southeastern Georgia)
• Illinois
• Northern Indiana
• Kentucky
• Louisiana
• Maine
• Southwestern Michigan
• Mississippi
• Tennessee
• Eastern Texas
• South Carolina
• Southwest Virginia
• Effective November 1, 2016:
• Alabama (Dothan)
• California
• Colorado
• Florida (North Florida, Southwest Florida and West Palm)
• Southeastern Georgia
• Idaho
• Indiana (Indianapolis and Central Indiana; Fort Wayne and Eastern Indiana)
• Kansas
• Michigan (Grand Rapids/Lansing, Detroit, and Eastern Michigan)
• Minnesota
• Missouri
• New Mexico
• Western Ohio
• Oregon
• Texas (Houston)
• Utah
• Washington
• Wisconsin

If you're like me and you backup a lot of offsite data this may be the time to pull that into a local server on your own network that you own.

EDIT: For more information on how to fight this and why this is just a cord cutter tax for an aging monopoly that refuses to build out more infrastructure you can go here.

by ReadingTheAir http://ift.tt/2fb5XtF