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Pittsburgh, PA | reply to ztmike
Re: Lawsuit? said by evilghost:The limits look quite reasonable to be honest. Unlimited means you can be connected without a time limit, like the old dial-up days and "$9.99 for 15 hours". No one in their right mind thinks it means unlimited bandwidth. I'd fully expect my ISP to dropkick me if I were consuming 100% bandwidth 100% of the time. Now lets hear from the pirates... Wow cable companies can use more customers like you who are stuck in the 80's and think squiggly lines and snow adds character to the one movie channel your paying $15 a month for. when a phone company advertises like cricket says unlimited it means usage for as long as you want, it doesnlt you keep your phone on and connected to the cell tower for as long as you want. The days of AOL for 19.99 for 15 hours is in the past.
Average internet household has 1.5 computers, we have 7 computers I have 2 pcs and a laptop, my wife has her pc and laptop, the kids have one and a centralized server with over 7 terabytes of storage on a Gigabyte network. two pc's I use according to bandwidth monitor has used almost 200gb this month little over 300 last month, few months around 400, july was 100 and we were only there a week, most from streaming videos, webcam, surfing, hosting some torrent files for the family website. But maniac movie month april was over 750gb from downloading from itunes, vongo, netflex and walmart. Not sure what the total could be from the two cm's, but this one was 2436 for the year.
so basically the average family easily uses up 300GB a month. I thought my friend was insane when he told me he added two more computers to the six he had...... until I started counting computers not counting other things.
Not even close to maxing out the connection, I added it up at an average download of 1.7MB/s that would be about 120gb per day 3600gb a month
So I guess pirates must be using like 800GB
I don't know what competition cableone has out there, but the first company to impose those kind of restrictions around here will be bankrupt
I guess we would be above that comcast cap, but its seriously non existence here, and I'm sure other markets will follow suit as things are upgraded, just remember things can alway be worst. But the cadent cmts's that are being upgraded too are expensive. |
