stry_cat
join:2005-04-08
| 2kb/sec?!?
if you're paying for an always on Internet connection, then the cap should be (speed of connection) times 30 days. Someone check my math but I think 5GB/30days works out to 2kb/sec. If Frontier's DSL is only 2kb/sec then it is time to find a new DSL provider. |
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by stry_cat  :if you're paying for an always on Internet connection, then the cap should be (speed of connection) times 30 days. Someone check my math but I think 5GB/30days works out to 2kb/sec. If Frontier's DSL is only 2kb/sec then it is time to find a new DSL provider. yes your math is right, but I'm not sure my 10 Mbps connection with Charter should come with a 3 TB cap. 300 GB would be more than reasonable. Come on no ISP could survive a sizeable portion of their user using it that much. People sleep, people work people do other things. So no point in saying your should have 10 Mbps X 60sec X 60 min X 24 hours X 30 days cap. Not to mention when you on pages you are not always downloading and uploading. If I'm on here spending 10 mintues reading posts I'm not using any bandwidth. |
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InFloW
join:2002-08-10
Fergus, ON
 ·Cogeco Cable
1 edit | The 5GB cap is unreasonable I think everyone is in agreement here.
The problem is coming in with the competition of these higher speeds it's resulting in more oversold networks. The users want at least 10mbit maybe more which are capable of using 3TB or more.
So the solution is you either cap the users and continue to up the speed or we move back to slower speeds which you can max out 24/7.
I probably just understand this more than most with having had sales people inquire to me about using their bandwidth services. The same very ones the ISP's are using granted not paying as much as I would but still not $1/mbit like some people seem to think. The last sales pitch sent to me? $10/mbit with 100mbit commit. That's just for bandwidth no infrastructure included.
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BF69
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN
| said by InFloW :The 5GB cap is unreasonable I think everyone is in agreement here. The problem is coming in with the competition of these higher speeds it's resulting in more oversold networks. The users want at least 10mbit maybe more which are capable of using 3TB or more. So the solution is you either cap the users and continue to up the speed or we move back to slower speeds which you can max out 24/7. Well I'd take 10 Mbps with a 200 GB cap over 2 Mbps with no cap( in which I could theoretically download 600 GB per month ),but that's me. |
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Millenniumle
join:2007-11-11
Fredonia, NY
| I don't fault your preference. For myself, I just don't want overage fees or high cost. I'm happy with my affordable, and slow, broadband and I just want it to stay that way. And I especially don't want to be up at night wondering if something has gone on in mine or another family member's computer that is now running up thousands of dollars in overage fees. As it stands I have no means to cap my own connection at the modem/router. |
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