davepk
join:2003-10-02
Santa Cruz, CA | Holy cow Holy cow,
$189.99 for 14 minutes of downloading at the rated speed.
And then being forced to wait a whole month for the privilege to do it again?
Boy am i glad i fired them those many years ago. |
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davepk
join:2003-10-02
Santa Cruz, CA | There, Fixed it.
said by davepk:Holy cow, $189.99 for 14 minutes of downloading at the rated speed. And then being forced to wait a whole DAY for the privilege to do it again? Boy am i glad i fired them those many years ago. |
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said by davepk:Holy cow, $189.99 for 14 minutes of downloading at the rated speed. And then being forced to wait a whole month for the privilege to do it again? Boy am i glad i fired them those many years ago. I don't understand how they stay in business. |
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That's pretty sad. A whole 7 hours a month of advertised speeds?
Assuming the numbers are correct, a 30 day month would mean they only want you to use 1% of your connection.
I don't understand how they keep customers. Today alone I've transferred 1 Gb of data with no p2p what-so-ever from 12 am until now (6:30 pm). That's with my workstation being idle from 10 am until 5 pm too! That's not counting the other 4 work stations on the network who are also active.
It simply boggles my mind as I'm sure it does others. |
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 Radio ActiveMy pappy's a pistolPremium
join:2003-01-31
Fullerton, CA | reply to 45612019
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said by 45612019:I don't understand how they stay in business. Must be that hot redhead thay have hawking their service every five minutes... 
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Trebonious
Re: Holy cow said by Trebonious:That's pretty sad. A whole 7 hours a month of advertised speeds? Assuming the numbers are correct, a 30 day month would mean they only want you to use 1% of your connection. I don't understand how they keep customers. pretty simple it's either satelite, cell or dial-up. So what choice does someone in the boonies have? Go with cell and pay $60 for a 5 GB cap and in Verizon's case, get charged $256 per GB overage. Or use dial-up and make your surfing as painful as possible. |
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 Smith6612Premium,MVM
join:2008-02-01
North Tonawanda, NY
kudos:21 | Isn't satellite more painful because of the horrid latency on it? I'd think that dial-up despite it's slowness would at least be a bit quicker away from large stuff loading up sites because of the lower latency. |
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said by BF69:Or use dial-up and make your surfing as painful as possible. ... the users who violate those caps face being throttled to below dial up speeds (between 7 and 14kbps)... According to the story, once you hit the cap and get FAP'd you're better off on Dial-up anyway. Most average 28-45 kbps on dialup which is already 2-4 times faster then their FAP. Unless they meant kBps.
But then it comes down to comparing $30 a month for dial-up vs $200+ for damn near the same thing after 7 hours of use. (Obviously more if the connection isn't utilized heavily. See: 1 pc vs a household of 4+ all on the net at the same time) |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Trebonious:said by BF69:Or use dial-up and make your surfing as painful as possible. ... the users who violate those caps face being throttled to below dial up speeds (between 7 and 14kbps)... According to the story, once you hit the cap and get FAP'd you're better off on Dial-up anyway. Most average 28-45 kbps on dialup which is already 2-4 times faster then their FAP. Unless they meant k Bps. But then it comes down to comparing $30 a month for dial-up vs $200+ for damn near the same thing after 7 hours of use. (Obviously more if the connection isn't utilized heavily. See: 1 pc vs a household of 4+ all on the net at the same time) The cap is 24 hours. So if you excedd 300 MB in any 24 hour period you get throtled down to that slow speed until your 24 average hits 70% of that cap. The $200 tier is 500 MB per day not 300 MB. Still sucky though. Supposedly anything you download from 3 AM-6 AM is not counted towards your cap. |
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1 edit | said by BF69:The cap is 24 hours. So if you excedd 300 MB in any 24 hour period you get throtled down to that slow speed until your 24 average hits 70% of that cap. The $200 tier is 500 MB per day not 300 MB. Still sucky though. Supposedly anything you download from 3 AM-6 AM is not counted towards your cap. Well, the time period still stands. 7 Hours of use is correct as long as you continue to hit that cap over a 30 day period.
And as far as the MB per day is concerned, 200 mb difference on a 5 Mb plan doesn't change almost anything.
The 3-6 am "freebie", that's an extremely small window but it's something I suppose.
I still think a daily cap sub-gigabyte range on a 5 megabit connection is rather idiotic. Just goes to show what people try to get away with. |
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 old_dawg"I Know Noting..."
join:2001-09-22
Westminster, MD | reply to Radio Active
said by Radio Active: Must be that hot redhead thay have hawking their service every five minutes... How hard did you jam your tongue into your cheek when you typed that? 
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