baineschile
2600
Premium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | Cap Solution
If everyone is so concerned about caps, just switch to business class |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | But there might be caps on that, since business use is only "slightly higher" than regular use... |
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MrSpock29
join:2008-02-09
Hammonton, NJ
| reply to baineschile
said by baineschile  :If everyone is so concerned about caps, just switch to business class So they can pay more money for slower speeds and the same caps?
That's the deal with Comcast business class. Their business side told me not to bother, the caps were the same, the only thing I was getting was slower speeds for more money (besides static IP's which I could care less about) |
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no_one
@QWEST.NET
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TKJunkMail
| No caps
Business class in this sense is say a T1. Those have SLA and rarely caps.
I still rather have an invisi cap. Probably a bell curve knocking off the highest users. When use goes up the bell curve will. Leave it to marketing or higher management the caps could be silly. |
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DaMaGeINC
The Lan Man
Premium
join:2002-06-08
Greenville, SC
clubs: | reply to iansltx
Re: Cap Solution
Plus, Business use it still over priced and hard to afford for many business's. |
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AnCo
@comcast.net | reply to MrSpock29
Right. Sooo not true. I'm sure the business class salesperson used those as selling points to get you into business class service. "Use business class! It's slower and caps are the same! But at least you get a static IP!" |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | The volume will vary upon definition...
What is considered “excessive” or “high volume” use?
A very small percentage of Qwest Broadband customers fall into the “excessive” or “high volume” use category. Examples of “excessive” or “high volume” use are as follows:
• 300,000-500,000 photo downloads in one month -
ok... 1MB photo will mean 300 - 500GB/month
• 40,000 to 80,000 typically sized MP3 music downloads in one month
Ok... 5MB/mp3 = 200 to 400 GB
• 15+ million unique e-mails each month
Ok ... 512KB as an 'average'... 760GB
• Online TV video streaming of 1,000-3,000 30-minute shows each month.
170MB/30min = 170 to 510GB/month (AVI/VLC compressed)
• 2-5 million Web page visits (approximately one every second, 24 hours per day)
Ok ... pages are too variable... anything from a blank page to a few MB. Lets use 1MB as an 'average' (images, sound, flash, java all take up room... Google is relatively light). 200GB
I'm sure that I've highballed the web page and emails.
Mp3s/Video is pretty close, assuming decent quality.
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MrSpock29
join:2008-02-09
Hammonton, NJ
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Re: Cap Solution
said by AnCo :
Right. Sooo not true. I'm sure the business class salesperson used those as selling points to get you into business class service. "Use business class! It's slower and caps are the same! But at least you get a static IP!"
Fortunately, I got an honest guy, and he flat-out told me to stay with residential. He told me business class wouldn't help me at all. |
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insomniac84
join:2002-01-03
Schererville, IN | Where are the linux distros via bittorrent?
That is a very important metric. |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq
·Fairpoint Communic..
| Let's use terms we can understand.
With this cap, you could download
10 X-Box 360 Games and
10 Wii Games and
30 Dvd-rip movies and
100 MP3's and
4 ISO games
So, if you download more than that, you're screwed.
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The happiest countries are the most secular. The struggle AGAINST corporations is the struggle FOR humanity! |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | reply to DaMaGeINC
Re: Cap Solution
it maybe but a business should NOT be using a Residential connection period. If they conduct professional business they should have to pay for that. |
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI | reply to no_one
Re: No caps
T1's have caps, and they are only twice as high as Comcast's 250GB/month cap:
»www.google.com/search?q=1.544Mbp···%2Fmonth |
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hayabusa3303
Over 200 mph
Premium
join:2005-06-29
clubs:
 ·QuantumVoice
·AT&T Southeast
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to karlmarx
Re: Let's use terms we can understand.
said by karlmarx :So, if you download more than that, you're screwed. Screwed, or more like OVER BILLED. They will bend you over while they service your account.  |
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viperlmw
Premium
join:2005-01-25
·Qwest.net
| reply to hottboiinnc
Re: Cap Solution
said by hottboiinnc :it maybe but a business should NOT be using a Residential connection period. If they conduct professional business they should have to pay for that. Holly crap! This is twice I have agreed with the poster from the Buckeye State! |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to hottboiinnc
said by hottboiinnc :it maybe but a business should NOT be using a Residential connection period. If they conduct professional business they should have to pay for that. Why? If they're willing to accept the lower reliability of a "residential" connection and the other caveats (dynamic IP, possibly ports blocked), why should it matter if they're conducting "business"? I mean, in the end it's not like business class cable customers get a special cable network all to themselves- they're on the same node. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC
·Verizon Online DSL
| reply to hottboiinnc
No, nobody should have to pay for anything they don't want to. What SHOULD happen is that competitors offer a better product for less money, if what is there costs too much.
Businesses for reliability, home cable and DSL are not always very reliable... you are lucky if you never see problems. But for some businesses, they don't depend 100% on the internet so it's OK if its unreliable, then they can buy the cheaper stuff.
How would you like it if Comcast said "I won't sell you home service, you have to buy business, and it's 10 times the price." You would tell them where they could go. |
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axus
join:2001-06-18
Washington, DC | reply to karlmarx
Re: Let's use terms we can understand.
It will be great when consoles have downloadable demos for every game, I think piracy will go way down... of course it won't help sales for poorly done games ;p |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA
| reply to karlmarx
To be fair, one can't (legally) download full Wii games, for the obvious reason that the Wii only has 512MB flash memory onboard... (Watch them use that in their advertisements- our internet lets you download so much, you'd need 500 Wii systems to hold it on!) |
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Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
·Comcast
·Embarq
|  reply to hottboiinnc
Re: Cap Solution
 Are you saying that if I call my office from my home telephone for business purposes I should pay business rates for my home telephone line? Normally a telephone line is classified as a business line if it is advertised in a business listing. I would think if a customer requests a fixed IP Address and uses it to host a website that would be called business use. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
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Re: Let's use terms we can understand.
said by karlmarx :With this cap, you could download 10 X-Box 360 Games and 10 Wii Games and 30 Dvd-rip movies and 100 MP3's and 4 ISO games So, if you download more than that, you're screwed. Xbox does not offer 360 games for full download online. I'm not sure about Wii but their games can't take up too much space.
30 DVD-rips? Um can you say ILLEGAL?
100 Mbps. If bought LEGALLY that's $300 a month. Hmmmmmm.
4 ISO games. Once again ILLEGAL.
So who cares if people can't download illegally? How are ISPs responsible for providing someone a method of doing that? |
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