| Qwest Territory Only? Do the caps apply to previous Qwest territory only? The link provided to the EUP is a Qwest subdomain, and so far, the only folks reporting notifications are in Qwest territory. |
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 TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY | Cap's and Sh*tty speeds oh Joy Pay for speeds I don't even see, and caps fabulous. How does a VPN stream deal into this? Can anyone suggest a good useage meter? |
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| Therein lies my gripe with caps. I'm not entirely opposed to caps, provided they are fair. But I'll be damned if you're going to charge me and/or disconnect my service because of "excessive use" but not provide an accurate way for me to determine what my use even is. |
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Re: Qwest Territory Only? I'll try and confirm that with them. |
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 IowaCowboyWant to go back to IowaPremium
join:2010-10-16
Springfield, MA
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| Reasonable Accomodation I wonder if the user could get reasonable accomodation to their policies due to the fact he is blind, especially if the screen reader software is causing the excessive bandwidth or receive the bandwidth warnings via a phone call.
I myself am disabled (Autism and a mild case of Cerebral Palsy) so I know accessibility barriers very well. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | I doubt it, that would require them to A: care, and B: not be too lazy to implement/code that. |
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 PeteC2Got Mouse?Premium,MVM
join:2002-01-20
Bristol, CT
kudos:6
·Comcast
·AT&T Yahoo
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said by IowaCowboy:I wonder if the user could get reasonable accomodation to their policies due to the fact he is blind, especially if the screen reader software is causing the excessive bandwidth or receive the bandwidth warnings via a phone call.
I myself am disabled (Autism and a mild case of Cerebral Palsy) so I know accessibility barriers very well.
Yeah, I read that too...and don't buy it.
C'mon now, after all the guy calls himself "Datanabber"...does that give you at least pause to ponder?...
He claims that they are inaccurate in his data usage, but then of course he claims to have no idea either...okaaay.
My sister in law is blind, and I am the guy who set up and maintains her computer with JAWS, one of the other major screen reader programs for the blind.
Any warning that might be sent by an ISP would be just as accessible to her through JAWS, as it would be to me visually.
Also, screen reader software puts literally no "hit" on copnsumed bandwidth, so that dog won't hunt.
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 yolo2die
join:2001-04-21
Mountain Iron, MN | Dumb Yeah what happens if all you have available is a 1.5 line at your location? Suppose they make you buy into more data? |
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IanR
join:2001-03-22
Madison, NJ | what extra charges? What are the charges for overages and what is the cost (probably a frightening amount) for business? |
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Re: Cap's and Sh*tty speeds oh Joy said by Hazy Arc:Therein lies my gripe with caps. I'm not entirely opposed to caps, provided they are fair. But I'll be damned if you're going to charge me and/or disconnect my service because of "excessive use" but not provide an accurate way for me to determine what my use even is.
Welcome to what we ATT customers have been B!tch!ng about for a over a year now. You have no data counter we have one that does not work same screwed up system. How I know ATTs does not work? I track my data usage with my Netgear router and I can say ATT has never shown the same amount as ( or even close to ) my routers monthly log.
Be glad at least you get 250 GB for anything over 1.5! with a 3.0 or 6.0 mbps line on ATT to reach 250 GB Id already be paying them an additional $20 in overage as ATT caps ALL there DSL packages to 150GB ( exception to Uverse). |
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TransmasterDon't Blame Me I Voted For Bill and Opus
join:2001-06-20
Cheyenne, WY Reviews:
·CenturyLink
1 edit | said by patt2k:DD-WRT is a good data tracker
Thanks pattr2K, I have a D-Link 655 router I have not looked to see is there if a useage meter lurking in there some place. I know I don't come close to the 250 gig limit but I do want to keep tabs on it.
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| Next time be careful of what you wish for... Everyone was upset that the large ISPs wanted to charge companies like Netflix for increasing the loads on their networks. So the went and found a way to keep them from charging for the increased use of their networks via net nuetrality.
The content providers won the net nuetrality fight but the consumer lost the war because the ISPs came up with a way to charge money for the increased usage.
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ozarPremium
join:2008-04-13
USA Reviews:
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| horrible service My own 10 Mbps connection with CenturyLink has been so lousy for the last few years that it would be surprising to find that it's even capable of downloading a full 250 GB in one month. What a total piece of crap that just keeps on getting worse... wonder what they'll come up with next?
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Re: Qwest Territory Only? Well, here are the days of the over regulated, under delivered internet. I wish there was some kind of competition...but it seems like the major corps have made that impossible, and have won the battle. |
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Re: Reasonable Accomodation There are other screen readers than JAWS. I use a combination of Window Eyes and Zoom Text and never noticed the popups. And the inaccuracy is in the sheer magnitude. On a 40mb connection it would be virtually impossible to download 1tb a day, and when I was notified on the 27th of Feb. I went and purchased my own router with a meter. It says I have used 76gb since then and I have not changed my usage at all. As to my username datanabber it was conferred on me in high school about 25 years ago and isn't relevant other than I use it occasionally as it is easy to remember and unique. I happen to be very good at finding data and facts so it was given to me by someone that called me the datanabber. At the time it had nothing to do with computers. I have since switched providers and find that my usages appears to be well below the cap that centurylink set in place. My major problem is the claim that I downloaded 3072000mb in one month. |
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 beckPremium,MVM
join:2002-01-29
On The Road
kudos:1 | friend just called yesterday to ask about dsl. 12Mbps and unlimited. asked again about caps and there aren't any. at least that's what she was told. I guess in a month or 2 she will find out. |
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Re: Next time be careful of what you wish for... Caps have nothing to do with the ISP's costs, it's just a way to increase profits |
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elray
join:2000-12-16
Santa Monica, CA | 30 Terabytes? Really?
With a username of "datanabber", I wonder if this is just another one of those folks who download for the purposes of maxing out their use, 24x7, and then act surprised and outraged when their ISP takes notice.
While I wouldn't claim that 250GB caps are absolutely necessary on wired service, they certainly can be a legitimate, means to thwart abuse and allow for lower price offerings. |
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Re: Next time be careful of what you wish for... That is why the consumer should have the government intervene and breakup those monopolies and punish collusion agreements. |
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