said by bell insider :

As personal bandwidth increases, Bell is beginning to see the problems inherent to the marketing... The network can not handle the growth, at this rate, without expending 100's of millions of $$ made to pay for the initial equipment purchased to make this possible.... OC192 backbone just can not double without new equipment !!

said by Mizzat :

I don't believe that after reading usage charts of their backbone over the past couple years.

said by Smee :

Besides, this has nothing to do with AT&T trying to compensate for over use.

said by NetFixer :



You win the Nobel prize for physics? :uhh:

said by Hooterville :

And if you go over what happens?

said by DA :

The reason is that usage is trending upward, I watch TV using Amazon on-Demand with my Tivo. On average I download about 8-9 shows or movies a month between my wife and myself. We also watch things on Hulu, stream music etc...

We started doing this about 6 months ago and it wouldn't surprise me to see more and more entertainment move this way. Do we want to be in a situation 2 years from now where good shows are available online only and 15 gigs each (Assuming HD movies or TV shows) but we can't watch more than 2-3 episodes a week due to a cap?

No offense to the provider but if I was a telco executive and I thought I could get away with it I would enjoy all the usage fees that it would bring in so can we really expect them to act in our interests to keep the caps up with potential demand?

I recently visited South Africa on business and the cap there is 4 gigs a month. The guys there were telling me that the cap was no big deal 3-4 years ago but as usage grew the telco had no incentive to increase the cap. I can see this happening here.

said by decifal :

Ya know,, Thats not even a fair comparison.. There are way more dialup isp's due to the fact they call can be accessed over the phone line.. With DSL your stuck with your provider in the area.. And if they are evil, your cable option is the next thing and last for most.. And usually both isn't available..

said by Mizzat :

How soon we forget about dial-up caps, eh?

said by Hooterville :

And if you go over what happens?

said by Hooterville :

So there is no limit on how much we can download as of now?

I have the 3MG service and was wondering if there is a limit on how much we can download?

Unlimited?

said by doesnt matter :

I'll go to Charter cable the minute I find that I've been capped.

"Eventually, we will go to a usage-based solution," predicted Marwan Fawaz, CTO of Charter Communications Inc. (Nasdaq: CHTR - message board), last month at the CableNEXT conference in Santa Clara." -- »www.lightreading.com/document.as···site=cdn

said by mikes60 :

I don't understand why you "won't tolerate caps" if the caps are more than high enough to satisfy your needs.

said by John Keels :

Some of these "caps are necessary" posts are probably coming from AT&T employees. And for the most part it is BS. As I have said a million times on these forums for AT&T to see and read and I will repeat again exhaustively, if AT&T implements caps I am gone. I will not pay $43/mo for a service that I have to worry about that with. I do not abuse my connection. I only use it for what I need to (not hogging the connection all day and night downloading stuff). In any case AT&T will lose a customer who is currently happy with his service if they do this. Even though I do not abuse my connection I will not tolerate the caps. I won't hear of it any other way.

said by John Keels :

Some of these "caps are necessary" posts are probably coming from AT&T employees...

said by rainallday :

I'm still throttled down to 5.5 from the 6.2 that it was for years..Started around the beginning of November I think...Not a single change on my end for at least the last 2 years...I know it's not a big change, but it's a change for sure... :(

said by bell insider :

RJ,
We again butt head on issues that, I have other knowledge than you..

said by bell insider :

The problem shall be found in an ATM tax on the circuit,

said by bell insider :

MAX SYNC is a neat way for Bell to hide that network tax on each person... Actually robbing customers o what they were advertised for...

said by bogey780 :

He was probably shifted from one port to another or his line couldn't sustain max sync speeds for some reason I souldn't speculate on.

said by bogey780 :

You're not an AT&T SE insider. What you said is factually flawed and your summation is wrong on all accounts.

He was probably shifted from one port to another or his line couldn't sustain max sync speeds for some reason I souldn't speculate on.

said by Jon J :

Wonder why they would arbitrarily reduce a speed that was obviously working?

said by bogey780 :

1.2/200 is expected throughput on a 1.5Mb/s line with standard overhead. You must have been on a max sync profile earlier. It was probably changed during a maintenance cut.

said by beldin :

Paying for a service and then the company deciding that they don't want to provide the service that you contracted for is quite another. When I signed up for Bellsouth DSL, it clearly stated that it was unlimited usage.

said by rid0617 :

This garbage is about to change once Obama appoints folks to the FCC who will not be in bed with ISP and DSL folks

said by beldin :

Of course, my contract length was something like two years and it has been fulfilled

said by Jimmy09 :

You know i thought this was the land of the free...America and the internet was one of them..And now we are getting Bandwidth caps?? I mean i log online everyday and i don't have to worry about "Oh i wonder how close i am to my cap" but now...if this does go into effect it feels like i am being controlled by a company and i thought this country was free??

To be honest

I miss Bellsouth they would of probably never done this to us southeast region people

said by Jimmy09 :

You know i thought this was the land of the free...America and the internet was one of them..And now we are getting Bandwidth caps?? I mean i log online everyday and i don't have to worry about "Oh i wonder how close i am to my cap" but now...if this does go into effect it feels like i am being controlled by a company and i thought this country was free??

To be honest

I miss Bellsouth they would of probably never done this to us southeast region people

said by signmeuptoo :

I've heard that ATT is planning on putting bandwidth caps on us.

said by Mizzat :

That's not capping at all. Capping is an invisible limit like you going over your cellphone limits, you can still go over, but you get charged, nothing changes with your service.

Now where is the "they are capping my torrents and NZB newgroups post"?

said by rainallday :

I noticed over the last few days that my download
speed has been capped? at 5.5 (6.0 package)..For the last 2 years it has been a steady 6.1 ....so the difference, while not that much, was noticable right away..

said by rainallday :

I noticed over the last few days that my download
speed has been capped? at 5.5 (6.0 package)..For the last 2 years it has been a steady 6.1 ....so the difference, while not that much, was noticable right away..