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daslog
join:2002-04-10
Milford, NH | said by cybercrimes:i can see them loseing customers if the put on caps im with verizon fios with no caps. people with comcast will go elseware for internet with no caps if they can Yep. The high cost customers that they lose money on. Win-Win for both Comcast and the Customer. |
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 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to cybercrimes
You would be incorrect. No normal residential person can come up with a 100% legal excuse to use more than 250 gigs/mo |
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 DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
4 edits | said by baineschile:You would be incorrect. No normal residential person can come up with a 100% legal excuse to use more than 250 gigs/mo Guess you've never heard of Carbonite or Slingbox. Between DirecTV VOD, VPN, buying games on EA Link and Steam (or more specially redownloading), AppleTV, Netflix and XBOX 360 rentals, and the biggest, Slingbox streams of MLB all Summer I've done over 250GB in a month on quite a few occasions. Thankfully Cox doesn't enforce their 40GB cap and Verizon FiOS apparently has no consumer network management. |
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You must not peruse the 'Broadband Heavy' forum on this site. For example, this streams live web cams to your pc/mac in the form of a screensaver: »Windows/OS X Screensaver of Axis cameras around the world
It's not a lot, but seems to add 40-50GB monthly to my bandwidth usage. |
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don't cout your chickens before they hatch. the way the CTO of VZ was talking they have plans to do the same
All ISPs will end up doing it. Why not? you don't have to worry about spending money all the time upgrading and you can kick all of the heavy users off your network. A win win for them. |
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 NOZIREV
join:2008-07-10
New Bedford, MA | reply to cybercrimes
Its a matter of time before Verizon puts caps on there service i will bet money on it. i called the caps on the cablecos years ago and now there here. bandwidth costs $ and regardless whether cablecos networks are out of date or whatever the case may be everyone will be doing it to save money in the long run. good luck to every one that uses mass quantities of bandwidth. |
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Please stop feeding the troll. Hell, troll food on this site alone could use up the 250GB!  |
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said by baineschile:You would be incorrect. No normal residential person can come up with a 100% legal excuse to use more than 250 gigs/mo just because you have some sorta of trauma or resentment that you cant let go , dont blame "piraters"
it has no effect,
so I cant just download legal copies of software over and over and over just to try and reach 1 Terabyte of transfers a month ? just for fun ?? ..
whats what I pay for isnt it ?
so now im a pirate because i download so much ?
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said by baineschile:You would be incorrect. No normal residential person can come up with a 100% legal excuse to use more than 250 gigs/mo aHEM... Sorry mate, you'd be incorect. I burn a a possible 10-20GB a day on porno alone. And don't tell me it isn't legal. It's coming down port 80, from various porn websites.
Yeah I said it. FAPFAPFAPFAPFAP. The rest of my traffic in a single day can be in excess of 1GB from the sheer amount of gaming I do. That's 21GB possible in a single day. All legit traffic. We haven't even COUNTED FTP traffic to the website yet. Lets just assume the average 30 day cycle.
30x21 = 630. 630. 630GB of legitimate traffic without a single torrent run. I mean, I haven't even counted in traffic over downloading Linux distros for my local webserver dev box. Nor have I counted my VPN traffic from when I connect to my local network from outside locations, etc. Oh my god, help me if I count traffic from Hulu.
Lucky for me, DD-WRT keeps a track of bandwidth used!
August 8, 2008 (Incoming: 14842 MB / Outgoing: 503 MB)
As Comcast said, The higher amount of bandwidth just helps you reach your cap faster. You find alot of things you can do with 20 Down and 2 Up.
So yeah, please remove your foot from your mouth and excuse yourself at the door. Thank You. |
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DogfatherPremium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | reply to hottboiinnc
said by hottboiinnc:don't cout your chickens before they hatch. the way the CTO of VZ was talking they have plans to do the same After all, Verizon has PPV VOD revenues to protect as well. |
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said by baineschile:You would be incorrect. No normal residential person can come up with a 100% legal excuse to use more than 250 gigs/mo Maybe not one person, but a family of 5 might be able to. |
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 Netbum
join:2002-04-08
Oakley, CA | reply to Dogfather
said by Dogfather:said by baineschile:You would be incorrect. No normal residential person can come up with a 100% legal excuse to use more than 250 gigs/mo Guess you've never heard of Carbonite or Slingbox. Between DirecTV VOD, VPN, buying games on EA Link and Steam (or more specially redownloading), AppleTV, Netflix and XBOX 360 rentals, and the biggest, Slingbox streams of MLB all Summer I've done over 250GB in a month on quite a few occasions. Thankfully Cox doesn't enforce their 40GB cap and Verizon FiOS apparently has no consumer network management. That's right,I just hooked up my N- Routers to my Network for DirecTV/Home Theatre On demand.
Hmmm,the $ I'm paying for Comcast?
Great,here we go again...
These guys remind of the folks who say "what have you got to hide,if you're not doing anything illegal,why do you care if the government snoops on you?"  |
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PDXPLT
join:2003-12-04
Banks, OR | reply to Dogfather
It'll take longer for Verizon to do that. Unlike Comcast, selting video isn't Verizon's core business (yet). So downloading big movie files isn't as much of a threat. VZ will want to keep FIOS positioned as a "no holds barred" ultimate HSI service.
For those lucky few of their subscribers that they're actually deploying FIOS to, that is. Those of us who've been told we're never getting FIOS (and probably never DSL, either) are SOL. |
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You should consider taking one of the How To Use The Internet More Effectively continuing education classes at your local elementary school. You'll obviously be surprised at how many 100% legal reasons there are for even only one person to use many hundreds of GB of bandwidth per month, let alone a family of 2 or more. |
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EPS
join:2008-02-13
Hingham, MA | reply to Dogfather
I doubt their VOD is making much money, I've never really found anything worthwhile on it... then again, I didn't use VOD much on Comcast either, but they seem to be making a bundle. |
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its not who has video as their business. it's who wants to pay for the extra bandwidth that users are using up. even well in the TBs per month.
I'm sure VZ won't be paying for that either.
But also- Remember who owns a good share of TV networks. It's not VZ so remember Comcast controls your cable bill and what channels you get each month on FiOS. |
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