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 ·Verizon Online DSL
| Tough to crack 250 Just for giggles I installed a bandwidth monitor on my IPCop firewall to monitor my bandwidth usage in my home. And while I am not on a metered connection, I had to WORK to get up to 250GB on a 10/1 megabit line. My wife plays online games a lot, I download a lot of HD video content and podcasts, I backup a LOT of stuff remotely, I have a VOIP phone system in my house, and I am constantly beaming out weather data to a remote server, and the best I have done is 189GB in the month of December. And that includes upload AND download. As of right now, the consensus is right that the average user should have no worries. Now I doubt it will be adequate as little as 2 years down the road as more rich content comes to internet, cable TV goes away, blah blah blah, you know the usual spiel. |
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| then it will definitely be lowered when not enough people have to pay extra..
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| reply to eggman9713
I replied to a friend the other day about his Vudu streaming HD video service. I explained to him that Blu-ray like quality would have taken me to my Comcast cap on just one weekend.
With the holidays, the wife and I averaged ~5 hours of 25 Mbps Blu-ray content via disk. Had I done that via Hulu I would easily has been policed into dial-up.
But the caps are for the 1% of their subscriber base currently consuming 90% of the bandwidth on the oversubscribed core and edge Comcast networks. Video streaming is taking off and that 1% will start to grow aggressively. |
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