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America Reviews:
 ·AT&T DSL Service
| Insane Such a low cap is just insane (5GB).
Now that I finally have a new modem that works like it should, I've been seeing faster speeds again (9/1 plan w/Cox, get at least that on average  ).
Guess what that means? It means that I USE my internet connection a bit more. To most people, using the internet is done without much (if ANY) thought as to how much data they transfer in a month.
January '08 on my NetMeter shows that I used very close to 40GB total. That was solely from lots of Netflix, a few demos, and random surfing. I consider myself "average" and don't download things 24x7 or anything like that. About a month or two after that, my old modem went nuts and just kept getting worse.....
What's Cox' cap, 40GB? And they really don't care if you're a little over that here and there, right? TW does 250 right? Either of those is still FAR more reasonable than this 5GB nonsense. 40 is still a little low, but that's probably why Cox doesn't seem to be so forceful unless the subscriber is a total hog.
Prices seem outrageous for these overages too, I mean, my hosting provider gives me a ton of space AND bandwidth per month for a very reasonable rate. Why should an ISP think they can get away with charging so much more?
Keep the regular internet prices flat rate. This notion of capping and overages is poorly thought out, couldn't possibly be executed well, and would upset far more people than they think.
If Jane and Joe internet users can't simply use their connection reasonably, there is a problem. If me, ok, maybe slightly above average internet user can't use my connection reasonably either, what's the point of getting a fast connection? |
