US Telco Support > AT&T > AT&T Midwest > Bandwidth caps are a com'in

said by wings10:

I watch youtube videos and stream a lot of music on Rhapsody and AT&T's Webtunes. Is this also considered downloading and effect the cap as well?

said by XBL2009:

Yes of course.

said by wings10:

That stinks. Unless of course it is no where near 150GB?

said by I pos rep:

That might not be a lot but I just subscribed to Netflix recently and I can tell you a couple of things.

1) Worthless on AT&T.
2) Very good quality with a fast connection

I use Comcast and even with the 250GB I am becoming concerned. I watched 2 HD streams and used up 9.8GB in less than 5 hrs.

I can think of these caps as being real innovation killers for many uses. An easy one that can be used by many is Netflix and you can clearly do 10+ GB in a day without much problem.

Gaming is also a heavy bandwidth eater. It can easily do GBs in a few hours. There are also plenty of other things to burn bandwidth easily with. Just pointing out like many others have: THE CAPS ON AT&T are massively low. If I was still a customer with AT&T like I was 5 yrs ago I would be complaining.

said by Nightfall:

Gaming does NOT take up gigabytes in a few hours. Not even close. Take a measurement sometime.

said by mtmra70:

You dont play WoW do you? Each time they release a patch its like 1GB+...lol

said by FBGuy:

i'd like to imagine that your not downloading patches more than you are playing. i don't play WoW. how many patches do they release per month?

personally i figure if your willing to shell out the extra cash for WoW the few extra GBs of transfer can't be that big of a deal. any way you could maybe get the patches from a public site? library, wifi hotspot, work, etc?

said by mtmra70:

cow: my post was more a sarcastic one than fact

although, with the new 360 NXE interface, doing 5GB/day is easy. Thats one HD movie rental or 3-5 netflix streams. Heck, I have probably already done 10GB of transfers since getting NXE...and thats with torrents turned off!

said by Nightfall:

Then don't stick up for your statement and then try to shrug it off as "being sarcastic".

Are you rending one HD movie or 3-5 netflix streams every day? I think thats a little more than most people do. I am a heavy user as well, but I can't top 200gb a month even if my wife and I try hard.