baineschile
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| To the whiners...
For everyone who complained and moaned about Comcast's 250 gig cap, its now looking pretty attractive with time warner and att's recent announcements.
caps will be a part of our internet future. maybe not he best idea, but one that companies must enfore becasue of bandwidth hogs.
they do have to provide us with something to monitor our caps though. i use tomatoe, which works pretty well. |
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swhitney2003
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| said by baineschile  :caps will be a part of our internet future. maybe not he best idea, but one that companies must enfore becasue of bandwidth hogs. Overage charges are also a revenue stream. Caps may not be needed necessarily, but implementing them will kills 2 birds with 1 stone. |
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rawwhide
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said by baineschile :For everyone who complained and moaned about Comcast's 250 gig cap, its now looking pretty attractive with time warner and att's recent announcements. I never thought it would happen. You would think that in areas that do not have u-verse that At&t would implement some web page that links to all sorts of videos that can be watched online for free, to hurt Comcast. I guess I should have seen it coming since it competes directly with u-verse. If I get capped, I will go with the provider. with the highest caps. Anything under 32g cap is a joke. You can pull that down in a month with dial-up. 
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Smith6612
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united state | reply to baineschile
Don't forget about Frontier! They're talking about caps around 5+GB as well. |
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en102
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Valencia, CA
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| reply to rawwhide
Sad thing is that a 1Mbps (lets just assume 1Mbps total) connection can do over 300GB/month... and that's assuming just one way traffic.
This has been manufactured to do 2 things:
1. Generate revenue (duh) by either charging for overages, or by having people 'fear' the cap, and move to a higher tier.
This is similar to a voice plan on a cell phone.
2. End of the all you can eat methodology of bandwidth - all must suffer. These companies don't want you to replace their TV service with an online competitor.
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KrK
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| said by en102 :This has been manufactured to do 2 things: 1. Generate revenue (duh) by either charging for overages, or by having people 'fear' the cap, and move to a higher tier. This is similar to a voice plan on a cell phone. 2. End of the all you can eat methodology of bandwidth - all must suffer. These companies don't want you to replace their TV service with an online competitor. They're guilty on BOTH counts.
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rawwhide
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| reply to Smith6612
For some folks with at&t it looks like it wont be much higher than that.
subscribe to Service on or after November 1, 2008, will have a monthly bandwidth usage allowance based upon the plan purchased as outlined below.
Basic: 20 GB/mo.
Express: 40 GB/mo.
Pro: 60 GB/mo.
Elite: 80 GB/mo.
Customers who exceed usage in a given month, must pay $1.00 per Gigabyte (“GB”) in excess of the usage allowance.
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iotastorm
join:2006-01-24
Florissant, MO
| What I don't get here is the assumption that 768 users won't download as much,
you can still downloads as much. just do it at a slower rate.
if someone @ 6 meg rate and someone @ 768 down load the same content, movies, cd's, knoppix dvd, whatever, pound for pound its the amount of data, just 6 meg rates do it faster. unless someone has some data that the 6 meg line user is a frothing at the mouth bandwidth hog. |
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