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 TzaleProud Libertarian ConservativePremium
join:2004-01-06
NYC Metro | More Bandwidth, Same or More Caps! While I like and encourage OOL to upgrade its already excellent bandwidth (10mbps/1mbps) to 20mbps/2mbps for the same price, I must say that there are A LOT of people who are having bandwidth problems. There are a lot of people who can't get anywhere near 10mbps/1mbps. I still get 9.5mbps/900kbps, like I did since day one. Another thing is that they will probably continue to cap the connections when someone dare tries to use the upload bandwidth. While I have never been capped, and I have uploaded 1 GB files on multiple occasions, there are plenty of people who HAVE been capped. Also OOL throttled myself and several others a few months ago for only a few weeks. What happened was that after ten minutes or so (sometimes less or more) people downloading non stop at full speed would be capped to 3.5mbps. There was front page news here at BBR and in the OOL forum and people complained and lowered OOLs #1 or #2 rating to a very low bronze rating. A day or two after this, OOL took off the throttling. The throttling was only temporary, it would last for a few minutes after a download ended. The upload caps are what I don't like because you have to call them to get them removed and after three times they can throw you off the network. As long as they become liberal with their bandwidth again and maintain the same quality of service I have and don't make us afraid to use the service, I'll stick with it. But what I think is a problem is that OOL advertises itself as 3X faster than Verizon DSL, and this is NOT true when they cap. So therefore, I conclude that OOL doesn't include capped speeds as there "normal speeds." So if this is true, OOL will probably raise the caps but keep the same or equivalent upload caps like they have now.
I know I will be going to FIOS, but this cable connection will be nice for the time. I know I will be going to FIOS if OOL maintains it's crappy capping policies.
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| said by Tzale: I know I will be going to FIOS, but this cable connection will be nice for the time. I know I will be going to FIOS if OOL maintains it's crappy capping policies. -Tzale This is the truth! 
My take on this is that all it will mean is that OOL will have even MORE issues with node overloading and that they will be capping even more... | |
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