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BF69
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reply to TCub

Re: Caps are ridiculous!

said by TCub:

Less then 1% my ass! Download or rent movies from iTunes or any other online movie service? Use a legal music service? Multiple computers? Purchasing and downloading games via Steam or any other online distributer? Cell phones connected to wifi? Hulu? Windows and/or Mac OS X and/or Linux updates? It all adds up and I can see it adding up quick. Quick enough that there has to be more then 1% that brushes or may even surpass that 250GBs....
Ok less than half of those with broadband in the US have a connection faster than 3 Mbps. 3 Mbps isn't very good for Hulu even though they say you don't need a connection that fast. face it even if your ISP has you on a 3 Mbps plan if you get 90% of that you'll be lucky.

Steam? please most people have never heard of it. I have. I wouldn't use it. As far as itunes/amazon/psn/xbl goes. Most movies are non HD and are between 1.5-2 GB in size. No way one rents 150-200 movies a month. Not at $3-$4 a pop.

So right now I would be shocked if that number was 1%. As people get access to faster speeds and as more people take advantage of these service and if sites like Hulu increase their streaming bitrate then sure more people will hit 250 GB. Maybe in about 3 years this is an issue. Hopefully by them Comcast and others will have either gotten rid of these caps, increase them or like hughesnet have cap free hours.

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