nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD | our competitive market
well, the march backwards starts Oct. 1.
caps beat the hell out of capex to add capacity don't they?
wonder how much Robert's bonus will be for the period beginning Oct. 1? |
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fatmanskinny
Premium
join:2004-01-04
Wandering
 ·Comcast Digital Vo..
 ·Comcast
3 edits |  Hmm....
So I guess I will be going here on Sept 30th, 2008. Well, I may not download 250GBs yet but I guess I will hang in there until I get that first notice of the overcharge and then, off to another provider.
Hit them in the pocket and drain the blood (money) out of them.
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evgray
join:2003-05-19
Fort Scott, KS
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| We only have At&T or crappy cable internet available here. We have the elite 6meg dsl and I have yet to get above 5000 and they say that that is fast enough and don't worry about it, it's within their range of speed that they have to offer me. If you switch, I hope that you get faster speeds than me. |
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cybercrimes
join:2003-12-24
Phoenixville, PA
1 edit | fios
alot of you will leave comcast i bet |
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | FAP and cap
Why both? FAP by design would control traffic. If people are not in a congested area, you don't need to cap them. |
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mbkowns
Got Bandwidth?
join:2003-07-01
Riverside, CA | Direct CAPs are gay
Good to know if I ever moved I wouldn't use there service.
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to cybercrimes
Re: fios
A lot may, most won't. Most people don't come anywhere close to hitting 250GB/mo. |
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TilhasBB
Formally Goden99
Premium
join:2000-08-05
canada
2 edits | reply to nasadude
Re: our competitive market
250GB is so bad. Right now its okay but not for long when HD Youtube and such goes live. Once inforced I dont think they will ever up it. |
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Rob2647
join:2008-08-12
Rochester, MI | Fine with me
I'm leaving Crapcast for U-verse in a week anyway. I'm not a bit torrent user, but they already have my speeds "DSL like speeds". Caps are a the trend of the year now. |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
1 edit |  Upload is the problem more than download
"As far as I am aware, uploads are not affected, at least not initially." At first I heard that the cap was based on upload & download combined and not just download.
And since upload capacity is the choke point for cable companies, why not cap upload? Besides the throttling, it would make more sense to surcharge heavy uploaders more than anyone else.
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | reply to evgray
Re: Hmm....
You maximum speed is only going to be about 5220kbps
What speeds are you getting? |
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morbo
Complete Your Transaction
join:2002-01-22
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clubs:
·Charter Pipeline
·AT&T Southwest
1 edit | reply to Dogfather
Re: fios
said by Dogfather  :A lot may, most won't. Most people don't come anywhere close to hitting 250GB/mo. I just recently updated my WRT54g router with Tomato firmware, and the bandwidth stats are interesting. I never would have thought that I qualified as a heavy user, and as of right now (with only a few days stats), I'm trending to use 150GB for a month. This doesn't include the streaming that I usually do either, so I'm sure that I'll exceed 200GB in no time.
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I think that Comcast should specify up front that the CAPS will be adjusted upward on a regular basis, a la gmail storage space. The goal and understanding being that bandwidth needs, like storage, will INCREASE over time. So within 6 months, the CAPS will rise to 300GB. In 12 months, 375GB, 18 months 475GB, etc. Otherwise, this is a blatant money grab by Comcast.
If someone has bandwidth trend statistics showing how their use has increased over the past 24 months, please share. |
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Trinijoy
Premium
join:2005-09-12
Brick, NJ | reply to TKJunkMail
Re: Upload is the problem more than download
What about playing online games doesn't this consume bandwidth constantly?? |
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SalesGOD
Got Money? Will Sell
join:2001-04-11
Tinley Park, IL | reply to evgray
Re: Hmm....
With overhead on at&t, the best speed you could hope for on a 6M down connection would be 5100. |
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evgray
join:2003-05-19
Fort Scott, KS
·AT&T DSL Service
| reply to fatmanskinny
4900 down and usually 615 up. My speeds are usually consistent. We switched from a normal phone in house line to a dry loop and my speed went down. I did have 5200 all of the time. We have two lines into our house and when we switched, they moved our dsl to the other line and that is when the speed dropped. |
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Vtr_Racing
join:2006-09-04
Pflugerville, TX | reply to Trinijoy
Re: Upload is the problem more than download
I believe this would contribute to the "cap". Its data being transfered. Someone correct me if Im wrong here. Or would bandwith usage playing online games not be part of this "cap? |
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cybercrimes
join:2003-12-24
Phoenixville, PA | reply to morbo
Re: fios
they will see that the will lose a hell alot of customers
do to the caps not from the heavey users from people that stream video from netflix utube and so on |
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fancydancer
Perception is reality
Premium
join:2002-08-28
Springfield, IL
clubs:
·Comcast
·Insight Communicat..
| The glass ceiling has been "painted"
So I wonder if Comcast will provide each customer their badnwidth usage on their bill or will we just know when we go over the limit?
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jester121
Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | reply to fatmanskinny
Re: Hmm....
You don't really think AT&T isn't going to follow suit within 6 months? |
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jester121
Premium
join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL | reply to Vtr_Racing
Re: Upload is the problem more than download
Packets are packets, whether they're games, voice, html, e-mail, or pr0n. |
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