1 edit | I received a notice... Comcrap took over for Time Warner RR in my area approximately 6 months ago now. The very first month I had them I received a notice that I had been using excessive bandwidth and to reduce my usage. I used a total of roughly 45GB that month.
So I replied back if they would kindly specify what the limit is I would be happy to make sure I don't go over it again. They didn't bother to respond to me so I didn't bother to reduce my usage. In fact, I got a sweet little program called BitMeter2 that monitors usage and the following month I used a total of 95GB but this time I received no letter. What gives I thought?
It is not hard to use this amount of bandwidth in this age of streaming data. I've never gone over 100GB a month but I have gone over 45GB since that first month but only received a notice for the 45GB. Makes no sense.
I'm paying $75/month for 15.5Mb/1.5Mb speeds, what they call Tier-3 service here. The download speed is, indeed, very nice. But the upload speed is only maybe 1/10th of what I pay for because they now block everything I try to upload to. I use the BitTorrent network to distribute my work (photographer) but that's impossible now.
I'm now looking into AT&T DSL which doesn't (according to people here) throttle or inhibit the BT network in any way. The speeds are less than half what I have now (as is the price almost), yet since Comcrap caps, throttles, or completely denies connections the difference in speed is negotiable.
Oh and I almost forgot. They are still marketing here as "Unlimited Usage" even though they have apparently stopped this practice in other places as they should. Unlimited means unlimited. Unlimited doesn't mean up to a point. |
