CColon
join:2008-04-20
Philadelphia, PA
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Comcast
| reply to en102
Re: wow
You fail to realize that along with the faster and bigger bus uplinks they are deploying from Nortel DOCSIS 3.0 allows them to bond frequencies to allow for the rise of caps. In 4 years of working for comcast in NJ, DE, and PA I have seen one customer get "the call" for excessive use, and he was later prosecuted for software pirating. |
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mogulero0
join:2005-04-21
Lakeville, MA
| reply to ih8aol
Verizon
Verizon has a great product, for now. But their customer service sucks out loud. I have fios 20 over 5. I have Comcast phone service. I have tv with Comcast because fios tv is not available in our town as the town & Verizon cannot agree on a contract. When I try to contact Verizon about my fios service their voice queue keeps asking for my telephone number. In my opinion, Verizon maintains a culture of arrogance as AT&T did of yore.
Comcast sucks too but less.
So I am a whore for the fastest product, which, at the present time, is Fios. But when 50 over 50 comes down the pike I will be on it in a heartbeat. |
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syrkel2
join:2003-12-02
Galesburg, IL | reply to ih8aol
Re: wow
yeah I agree. I just switched form insight to comcast in Illinois here and insight was she shiznit. I cant remember the last time that insight internet went down. and it was so fast too. |
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quatrix
Premium
join:2005-02-11
Davie, FL | reply to en102
Your transfers happen faster. Not everyone needs faster speeds for the purpose of downloading a greater quantity. And considering what the majority of people who oppose caps use their connections for, they don't deserve it anyway. |
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Mr Anonymous
@comcast.net | reply to en102
Re: wow
What's the point of claiming they are going to provide (insert speed here) when they refuse to upgrade the cable system they own in your area so you can even have broadband?
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to gaforces
True - everything goes through AT&T CO.
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gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
1 edit | reply to en102
Who installed the switches and maintaines them for DSL Extreme? And where are they located? 
Who's network does it go through?
Im kind of in the same situation, my packets go through ATT network and they could look if they wanted. I have no doubt about that.
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Vista ~ Less functional every day! |
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karlmarx
join:2006-09-18
iraq
 ·Fairpoint Communic..
| reply to TKJunkMail
I CHALLENGE your assertion. If right now, they 'kick' someone for over 200GB of usage on a 6/768 connection, and now they offer 50/50 connections, do you really thing they won't bounce you until you hit 1.8TB of data? I mean, if they increased the caps as much as they increased the speeds, I sure as hell wouldn't bother to buy the higher speed, I'd stick with my 6/768 connection an use 1.5TB per month safely. Caps, and they DO exist, will most certainly NOT go up.
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The happiest countries are the most secular. The struggle AGAINST corporations is the struggle FOR humanity! |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to dlewis23
Agreed.. here's the 'issue'
A) DSL = lower bit rate, but typically you will hit your max w/o issue (eg. ADSL 6-7Mbps, VDSL at 10Mbps). Typically a better QoS on DSL, IMO.
B) Cable 6-25Mbps, slow downs during peak usage, but for bursty transmissions, and less distance limitations, Cable works well.
Think of DSL as token ring, and Cable as ethernet with a hub (not switch).
Unless I'm mistaken HD uncompressed is 19.2Mbps, and unless there's a queuing mechanism, I don't think you'll be having decently streamed HD over the internet for a while w/o buffering
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EG
Ho Ho Ho
Premium
join:2006-11-18
Union, NJ | reply to TKJunkMail
Any tangible evidence ??? |
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dlewis23
join:2005-04-18
Boca Raton, FL
| reply to en102
I do..... And so does any other web 2.0 developer.
We are tried of having to compress and lower the quality of our stuff so people with slow connections don't have to wait 10 minutes for the web app to load.
Once this, or even 10mbps starts to become the norm, you are going too see a exposition in the quality of the way websites look. |
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jt55
@comcast.net | reply to hopeflicker
he didn't say they would get ride of teh cap. they will just increase the cap some. everytime they increase there speed they have increase there cap a little but it is alway there. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
1 edit | reply to reelbigfish
I don't have any real issues with CAPS/throttling, as long as
A) I know the actual limit of MY usage before being capped/throttled.
B) My consumption limit isn't based on a neighborhood usage., but my usage.
C) All the cards are on the table BEFORE I sign up for service.
I've been thinking about migrating to Cable (TW here) for a package deal, or even AT&T, however, I use this line for business, and I don't want some corp. bean counter deciding for me that I can't run certain apps, or that I can't use a specific amount of bandwidth per month, or specific time of day.
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to BabyBear
That's why I'm not on AT&T... but DSL-Extreme 
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
·DSL EXTREME
| reply to cornelius785
Well, lets say that there's a new company out there, pushing HD IPTV . All I need is an Internet connection. Now should my TV service over the Internet be capped because I don't want to pay for Comcast TV service ?
I've downloaded a few Linux DVD ISO images, on DSL, and have never had any issues (we're talking many GB here). If I'm paying for a 6Mbps line, I should be able to use it.
The cable model is based on high speed bursts, not sustained high end downloads / uploads due to the shared nature. They shouldn't oversell a node. Comcast even described this in their FCC statement yesterday. What sort of sucks is that its on a node by node basis where the issue occurs. You could be on a node with no traffic and consume almost as much as possible, while being on a node with a few high consumption neighbors, your status would degrade.
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otis_sh
join:2007-05-04
Ann Arbor, MI
| reply to hopeflicker
The caps are one thing, but them getting it wrong is another.
If you can't log into your account with them and see what you've transfered, you've got very little in the way of defending yourself when they get it wrong (and they do get it wrong sometimes).
Sure, who doesn't want that speed, and caps are even dealable with, but the secrecy and how they do things sort of puts a whole damper on that.
The problem is the corporate culture, the business practices, the secrecy, the arrogance. That's the problem. Fix that, the caps aren't really as big a deal anymore. |
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BabyBear
Keep wise ...with Night-Owl
join:2007-01-11
| reply to en102
said by en102  :Who says I need any more bandwidth ? I just don't need what I have capped/filtered/throttled Or passed on to any agency for "snoopage" purposes, including but not limited to NSA, CIA, RIAA, MPAA, FBI, AAA, DHS, FEMA, EU, ABC, 123, Do, Ra, Me.  |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | reply to NyQuil Kid
Who says I need any more bandwidth ? I just don't need what I have capped/filtered/throttled
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cornelius785
join:2006-10-26
Worcester, MA
| reply to en102
'excessive' bandwidth usage should be based on past history and current network load. it should not depend on what the data being transmitted is (game server data, p2p, youtube, etc.), only that it is data. i'd probably consider you an excessive bandwidth user for those 8 hours, assuming it is fairly often and network load is high. i'd have no problem limiting your connection during peak network usage (say ~90% utilization of network capacity) to allow for others that may need to do just sporadic downloading for small files.
in the end, it is not fair to those that don't do huge amounts of downloading or uploading all the time be penalized with a slower connection, packet dropping, or unstable pings because a few that saturate their connection all the time. ideally, caps should do this, but in reality probably not so much. |
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