| What's that cap again? Oh yea, "MStar spokesman Matt Clayton tells us the tier will cost users $39.95 a month, and it will come with a 100GB per month cap." »50Mbps Symmetrical For $39.95 |
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| Users claim they by and large aren't enforced, though I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has experienced them. |
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| Well, here's what Xmission said about this:
said by woodward:But seeing as you're discussing a residential pipe that is fatter than a DS3 for about $40/mo*, I can say with some faith that any provider who intends to stay in business for more than a couple of weeks will have some bandwidth policy attached. »UTOPIA Fiber 50/50 NOW Available - $39.95 |
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| reply to viperlmw
The 50/50 Service has a 500GB allowance, with overages costing around 20cents a gig. At least according to xmission's service policy.
That's way better than the:
"you're affecting your neighbors because we have inferior technology deployed, so we are going to throttle you or hard cap (overages = boot off service)"
comcast provides for more money and slower speeds.
I've seen and used quests new dsl both the 12 and 20 meg service and neither got close to their stated speeds. Approx 9mbit on the 12 and 16 on the 20 is what you should expect to get.
By the way pings to nearby servers for gaming on utopia are under 15ms. I've seen some users get down near 5ms. |
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 en102Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
1 edit | Let me guess... ATM overhead. Typically on a DSL line, you're looking at max ~85% of sync rate.
Sync rate of 20Mbps (20,480kbps?) = 17,408kbps throughput at 85%. Sad... their overhead was as much as my AT&T ADSL pipe
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 woodwardXMission BroadbandVIP
join:2000-12-28
Salt Lake City, UT | reply to Karl Bode
said by Karl Bode:Users claim they by and large aren't enforced, though I'm interested in hearing from anyone who has experienced them. As a general rule, if someone breaks the 100 GB limit (a wholesale restriction, incidentally) they just upgrade to 50/50/500GB, which is only a little more for a significant boost in speed and volume. And that's usually the last we hear from them.
I think I can count on one hand the number of subscribers that break that 500 GB ceiling, and we sell additional chunks of 100 GB for $20/mo (which is essentially a pass through cost for us). Bandwidth in Utah is generally more expensive than elsewhere in the country. |
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Wow, I wish I could get that here! I don't think I've ever transferred 50 GB any month since I had either DSL or Cable (over the past 4+ years). But then again HD TV shows are a recent thing and most games broadcast online aren't at that quality marker just yet. |
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