 NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI
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| Responses are the same Just like every other announcement when a broadband ISP says they are going to start capping and charging for over the cap usage. Various users chiming in on how they are/aren't affected. The ones that aren't affected just shrug this off. The ones that are affected bitch and complain.
The end result is the same. You either pay up and keep your line, or drop them and move to another provider if you have that option. If you do pay up and keep it, you find ways to limit your usage below the cap.
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| said by Nightfall: If you do pay up and keep it, you find ways to limit your usage below the cap. Which is fine if you only check email and the weather. The rest of us who actually use the connection we thought we were paying for get the shaft. |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by SilverSurfer1:said by Nightfall: If you do pay up and keep it, you find ways to limit your usage below the cap. Which is fine if you only check email and the weather. The rest of us who actually use the connection we thought we were paying for get the shaft. I would like to know what is it you THINK you do that puts you over a 95 GB cap. While I think the cap should be higher than that you'd still have to do a lot to go over 95 GB.
I think most people have no clue as to how much they use. They bring up stuff like ads and Voip and crap. Ads maybe take up 2 GB a month and you REALLY REALLY have to try hard to do that. VoiP uses less than 5 GB even if you're on 4 hours a day. |
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NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
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Grand Rapids, MI Reviews:
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said by SilverSurfer1:said by Nightfall: If you do pay up and keep it, you find ways to limit your usage below the cap. Which is fine if you only check email and the weather. The rest of us who actually use the connection we thought we were paying for get the shaft. Checking email and the weather don't eat up hardly any bandwidth. Those people have nothing to worry about. That is not an apples to apples comparison to the person downloading gigs of bittorrent data. |
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 MashikiBalking The Enemy's Plans
join:2002-02-04
Woodstock, ON | reply to Nightfall
Sadly there is no other provider in cable land, and dsl sucks here. |
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said by Nightfall:Checking email and the weather don't eat up hardly any bandwidth. Those people have nothing to worry about. That is not an apples to apples comparison to the person downloading gigs of bittorrent data. So essentially what you are ASSuming and saying is that people who download over what you personally use, are automatically, and, by default downloading "illegal" content. I guess you forgot to include streaming audio and other multimedia like Netflix, et al. Nice attempts at justifying getting ass raped by these cable cos. in search of ever more money for ever decreasing product, but I remain unconvinced and your argument(s) remain uncompelling. In fact, you're starting to remind of the resident shills on this board. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by SilverSurfer1:said by Nightfall:Checking email and the weather don't eat up hardly any bandwidth. Those people have nothing to worry about. That is not an apples to apples comparison to the person downloading gigs of bittorrent data. So essentially what you are ASSuming and saying is that people who download over what you personally use, are automatically, and, by default downloading "illegal" content. I guess you forgot to include streaming audio and other multimedia like Netflix, et al. Nice attempts at justifying getting ass raped by these cable cos. in search of ever more money for ever decreasing product, but I remain unconvinced and your argument(s) remain uncompelling. In fact, you're starting to remind of the resident shills on this board. first of all as soon as some mention words like bittorent or limwire and such I KNOW they are downloading illegally. I have yet to hear ONE person complain they they might go over a cap by downloading music from Itunes. Oh wait because Itunes are $1 each and to download 40 GB of music would mean you spent $8000 on music.
As far as streaming music, streaming 6 hours a day would be 10 GB a month. WELL UNDER any cap.
Netflix? Netflix downloading is all SD content. Movies typically don't reach more than 1.5 GB. 20 movies month would be 30 GB. How much is it to rent 30 movies from netflix? quite a lot. Enough to assume you can afford any overage fees. |
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NightfallMy Goal Is To Deny YoursPremium,MVM
join:2001-08-03
Grand Rapids, MI Reviews:
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said by SilverSurfer1:said by Nightfall:Checking email and the weather don't eat up hardly any bandwidth. Those people have nothing to worry about. That is not an apples to apples comparison to the person downloading gigs of bittorrent data. So essentially what you are ASSuming and saying is that people who download over what you personally use, are automatically, and, by default downloading "illegal" content. I guess you forgot to include streaming audio and other multimedia like Netflix, et al. Nice attempts at justifying getting ass raped by these cable cos. in search of ever more money for ever decreasing product, but I remain unconvinced and your argument(s) remain uncompelling. In fact, you're starting to remind of the resident shills on this board. First, did I mention a number or are you stuffing words in my mouth? Secondly, I asked for an apples to apples comparison. Someone who downloads illegal movies, games, music and applications from bittorrent and someone who downloads heavily from itunes, netflix, and other legit places.
Why not just remove my quote and type in what you wanted me to say and then rebut it. |
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