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 RxdoxxPremium,Mod
join:2000-11-03
Middle River, MD
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| Speed vs Caps What difference can super speed make as long as there are secret up/download caps?
Those who will benefit will just hit their "termination for excessive use/abuse" faster.
And for the rest, does getting something a minute or two faster really make that much of a difference?
Sorry, except for some limited business/institutions, I just see it in the same light as the 180mph position on my car speedometer... unless billing by download volume is their real unspoken priority.
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| But they aren't going to be secret much longer.
Look at it this way, comcast is going to go with a 100GB/month cap. So that means, if you actually USE the 50mb/sec, you will run out of bandwidth in about 4 hours. So, The 1st of the month, from midnight to 4:00 am, you will get all you paid for.
So, if you WERE to use your full connection all month, you would get a bill for $235,804.70 (overage charges) + 150.00 base fee.
Remember, overages is just a way for comcast to raise more money. If you were willing to spend 235,000.00 per month, you could EASILY get a 10gb/sec connection, with no limits
Look at the math. A T-1 costs about $500.00/month. With that, you can move about 900GB (or download about 450GB) every month. That means, a T-1 comes out to about $1.00/gb to use (downloads). Thus, anyone who uses more than 300GB/month, will find a T-1 cheaper, because the comcast overage charges for 300GB = $300.00 (assuming $1.50/gb).
It's more proof that comcast is overselling what they can't provide. That's like honda saying they will sell you their car, but you can only drive on 'roads they approve'.
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 guhunaR.I.P MikePremium
join:2001-03-31
Antioch, CA
 ·Covad Communicat..
| reply to Rxdoxx
said by Rxdoxx:Sorry, except for some limited business/institutions, I just see it in the same light as the 180mph position on my car speedometer... unless billing by download volume is their real unspoken priority. Ding ding ding, we have a winner! | |
 tshirtPremium,MVM
join:2004-07-11
Snohomish, WA
kudos:3
 ·Comcast
| reply to karlmarx
said by karlmarx:But they aren't going to be secret much longer. Look at it this way, comcast is going to go with a 100GB/month cap. What they are testing is 250GB/month. (which throws some of your math off a bit)
said by karlmarx:Remember, overages is just a way for comcast to raise more money. And the "extra" money they raise should help pay for the increased bandwidth useage, plant upgrade costs, plus (maybe) a little extra profit for offering a premium connection. No one really knows what cap will end being applied to the standard tiers, let alone the 50/5 tier.
said by karlmarx: ........ will find a T-1 cheaper, because the comcast overage charges for 300GB = $300.00 (assuming $1.50/gb). And comcast is probably OK with that, they can only offer certain types of service for the price the average resdential account MIGHT use. If you need a different level of service go elsewhere. (or pay the overage charges, for what you use.) | |
 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2
 ·Clear Wireless
| reply to karlmarx
said by karlmarx:So, if you WERE to use your full connection all month, you would get a bill for $235,804.70 (overage charges) + 150.00 base fee. You would have also moved 16.2TB, and unless you're channeling everything to /dev/null that's a lot of data to store / burn to optical media.
There are limits on how much information humans can consume, seeing as there are only 24 hours in a day to be divided between work, sleep, and entertainment. Unless you happen to have the most eclectic tastes of any human that has ever lived, eventually you're going to run out of content that you're interested in. Presumably at this point you already are in possession of a great deal of content that interests you, and the rate at which new content is being produced is limited to rates slower than you can consume it.
There's not a 1:1 correlation between speed and consumption for nearly every application except P2P. | |
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