siouxmoux
join:2007-09-25 | reply to quatrix
Re: CAPs
I only takes me about an hour to reach 5 GB running when I running Soulseek, BT or iTunes. Anyone using this DSL provided will leave in droves within weeks after the news coverage about these caps. Frontier just signed their death sentence. |
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pfak
Premium
join:2002-12-29
Canada | reply to fiberguy
What is close to correct? Do tell. |
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
Premium
join:2000-01-17
Tulsa, OK
 ·AT&T Yahoo
·AT&T DSL Service
 ·Cox HSI
| reply to quatrix
I'm a low bandwidth user.
I don't watch HD movies from Netflix. I'm not using Bittorrent. I do minimal online gaming, usually.
I do surf, mainly this site and a few others, and I look up stuff on the Net as needed, as well as Billpay, etc.
Oh, I do watch Youtube videos occasionally, but we all know they are small and very compressed.
Even so, my Netmeter tells me I use around 4GB a month. 5GB is ludicrious. I could blow that easy if I was installing software or downloading an actual video or steam purchase.
No way.
Personally, I feel if there's going to be caps, they should be in the 200GB range. Yes, that's excessive for most of us.... but some people do download lots of crap and watch lots of video and I support them being able to do that. Who knows... one day I might be one of them too.
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"Regulatory capitalism is when companies invest in lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians, instead of plant, people, and customer service." - former FCC Chairman William Kennard (A real FCC Chairman, unlike the current Corporate Spokesperson in the job!) |
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pspcrazy
Anime Freak
join:2008-02-06
San Diego, CA | reply to fiberguy
I'm more of a pro consumerist troll which actually makes me good. |
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maartena
Super Grover
Premium
join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to baineschile
I just downloaded the Debian 4.0r4 DVD, which was released this week, a whopping 4.4 Gb.... I would have used all of my available bandwidth in 1 day.
Oh, and just a week ago I downloaded OpenSUSE 11.0 at 4.4 Gb. I love to test new Linux distros, just to see if they have improved for the average user.
The olympics are coming up.... and I already know there are certain things that aren't broadcasted live on US TV (such as field hockey between Holland and Germany) and I am going to watch that on the online streams provided by NBC. Most likely I will have a stream going for hours and hours in my office room.
I also have a OpenTTD server running with 5 game servers on it (OpenTTD is a transport simulator, all open source), of which i know takes about 10 to 15 Gb a month of uploaded data.
Windows Server 2008 Small Business Edition will be released soon, and I am about to download the
I haven't downloaded illegal torrents in months. I "may have" "tried" to download a few games to play back then.... but 95% of my traffic is absolutely legit, and I am wasting at least 50 Gb a month.
There are caps, and there are caps. I could probably live with a 50 Gb cap, provided there is "rollover data" just like there are rollover minutes with your cell phone.
But 5 Gb.... is absolutely rediculous. And I haven't seen the sales pitch, but I bet they are saying something along the lines of "that is like 15000 webpages and 1700 e-mails".
Well, it is only ONE linux DVD ISO with little room te spare. |
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Linux234
@comcast.net
 from:
dlconkey 
| reply to cornelius785
When Ubuntu 8.04 came out I had to download 2 full dvd's one for 32bit and one for 64bit and then after installing on 3 different computers had to download between 1-8gb of software (steam mostly) per computer, that was one day and my usage was 15gb+ easily. |
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fldiver
Premium
join:1999-12-27
Jacksonville, FL
| reply to RainWind
Agreed, anyone that things 5GB in a month is too much should start MAILING their comments in through the postal service and quit wasting our bandwidth on inane comments of which they know nothing 
As for Frontier, enough people vote with their pocketbooks, one of 2 things will happen 1) this ISP will go under or 2) they will get the point. People have the power if they work in cooperation.. |
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33591094
join:2002-11-19
Canada | reply to quatrix
BS - nothing but pure BS.
Why even waste your time posting such drivel - it's clearly a lie... |
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fldiver
Premium
join:1999-12-27
Jacksonville, FL | reply to dlconkey
Ditto ! |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR
| reply to fldiver
Don't Like It? Move!!
Hey, Frontier is a private company, they're entitled to run things how they want and they don't owe you uncapped DSL service. If you don't like it you can always move to another service area.
At least that's the answer always fed here to rural and suburban residents when they complain about lack of service. it should apply to city folk as well. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to PDXPLT
Re: Don't Like It? Move!!
very true. But Citizens is a rural company mostly. They're nationwide. But I agree. They're entitled to run things how they want- but not just because they're private- but because they're a business. A business or any ISP does not owe any user or customer anything except great customer service. And uncapped Internet is not considered great customer service. That would only include calling in and being treated in a nice calm manner and the Rep answering all the questions that they were asked, etc. |
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hottboiinnc
ME
join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH
·Time Warner Cable
·buckeye cable
| reply to voipdabbler
Re: CAPs
oh boy here we go already- someone on here saying we need some sort of Neutrality rules for the Internet. And want some asshole in DC saying how high a cap should be. The Gov't can not tell a business publicly traded or not how much bandwidth is too high or too little. The ISPs will alaugh at the FCC or anyone else and simply take it to court. If the court sides with the law then be prepard to take a nice price hike or have serviced killed.
Even ATT wouldn't even agree to that law. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
Premium
join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ | reply to baineschile
i can chew up 5gb no problem and that is with zero torrents or major downloads. just WoW patches, Windows patches, Playing wow and using Ventrilo
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scoopy03
join:2003-05-06
00000
 ·Verizon FIOS
1 edit | reply to quatrix
30gb in a month |
said by quatrix :We're power users with several PCs online all day, including one on VPN full-time and one on VPN part-time, and I've used 33 GB in 189 days, barely above 5 GB per month. The average person should have no problem staying below that. heres screen of about 30gb in a month uploading images typical surfing, watching full television shows and usual emailing and such.. also note upload was limited to under 100kb/sec of my available 5mb/sec upload. i could have easily hit 10gb upload if i left it on for more than 2 hours. --
Member of FIOS tech forum. |
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dscottcooper
join:2007-10-16
Paden City, WV | what program are you using in the pic?
Thanks!! |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20 | reply to pfak
We're not talking about caps, we're talking about average use. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to give out company information in the public.. |
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fiberguy
My views are my own.
Premium
join:2005-05-20
1 edit | reply to pspcrazy
Not really... |
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pspcrazy
Anime Freak
join:2008-02-06
San Diego, CA | reply to dscottcooper
That's the same software I use it's called bitmeter |
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dscottcooper
join:2007-10-16
Paden City, WV | Thanks!! |
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