Civrock
Premium
join:2005-06-25
North Wilkesboro, NC
| Monitoring Tools
They better implement own monitoring tools for users on their website. I know there's free third-party ones out there but none of them accurately monitor the monthly bandwidth usage for all the different network setups out there Charter users have.
Also wondering how spam and such will be counted... |
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NickD
Premium
join:2000-11-17
Princeton Junction, NJ
clubs: | instead of capping upgrade the network |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
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said by Civrock  :Also wondering how spam and such will be counted... Spam and non-solicited traffic is minuscule. They are statistically insignificant. |
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WALL_E
Premium
join:2003-05-28
USA
| reply to Civrock
The least they can do is provide users the tools needed to monitor than own usage.
The funny thing is Charter probably spends much more on providing phone/e-mail and other technical support to users than it does for network upgrades. I suspect the kinds of users who will be hitting this cap (myself included) are also the kind of people who never bother Charter with mundane technical support calls. 
Not to mention the fact that realistically, Charter shouldn't give a damn if I download a lot of content overnight, for example. During peak hours I can almost understand, but explain to me how Charter suffers if I schedule a multi-gigabyte download for midnight?
And yes, I do legally acquire content that I can - iTunes music, licensed software, etc. - but there are some things that can't be acquired legally because there are no reasonable means to do so (overseas television shows and the like.)
Not to mention the fact that everyone in my family uses Netflix and Hulu for streaming. We're screwed.
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espaeth
Digital Plumber
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join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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·Vitelity VOIP
·Callcentric
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| reply to NickD
said by NickD :instead of capping upgrade the network They did.
You can get around the caps by leveraging the benefits of those upgrades and signing up for the 60mbps tier. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO
·VOIPo
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Do (most)DSL ISPs have caps? I know that they(for the post mart) don't have the speeds cable does, but I for one would rather have a 5m DSL with NO caps than a 10m calbe with a cap, syre it may take longer to buffer a video, but I have time, and if theres a good game that comes out, with great online play I COULD play all I want, but I don;t have DSL and don;t know if most have caps. I do know that DSLs(for the most part) don;t try to prussure you into a bundle. |
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Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
join:2006-04-19
japan
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said by espaeth :said by NickD :instead of capping upgrade the network They did. You can get around the caps by leveraging the benefits of those upgrades and signing up for the 60mbps tier. lol, $140/mo for internet!? That must be a joke. I bet you won't even get 80% of the advertised speeds. |
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cahiatt
Premium
join:2001-03-21
Smyrna, GA
·BroadVoice
·Charter Pipeline
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| said by Warez_Zealot :....That must be a joke. I bet you won't even get 80% of the advertised speeds. I'm having trouble with getting even 15% my paid speeds. My CBN account is choking down with 300k out of the supposed 2.0 meg of upload that I'm supposed to have.... |
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Flibbetigibbet
@lmco.com
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said by espaeth :said by NickD :instead of capping upgrade the network They did. You can get around the caps by leveraging the benefits of those upgrades and signing up for the 60mbps tier. Brilliant suggestion. All I have to do is move halfway across the country to St. Louis, buy a house in the "right" neighborhood, and sign up for five-times-what-it's-worth "service?" Great idea! |
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bob from aus
@on.net | reply to Warez_Zealot
you got it easy dude, i would love to have that. instead i get this
»my.bigpond.com/internetplans/bro···ault.jsp |
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hobbularmodule
@wisc.edu
| reply to cahiatt
said by cahiatt : My CBN account is choking down with 300k out of the supposed 2.0 meg of upload that I'm supposed to have.... 2.0 Mbps = 2.0 megaBITS per second, not megabytes. 2.0MB = 2048 bytes; 2.0 Mb = 256 bytes. So you're actually getting MORE than advertised. |
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xt
@alter.net | reply to Civrock
They should try Gomez it is the best for monitering! |
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chrtrsux
@charter.com | reply to hobbularmodule
2.0 Mbps = (2.0 * (1024 Kbps/Mbps) * (1024 bps/Kbps) / 8) Bps
= 262144 Bps |
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iteg
@integraonline.net
| reply to Warez_Zealot
Cable never has a guaranteed speed! You need to use a T1 if you want a guaranteed speed. Plus you can bond T1's together. On another note, Cable and DSL is technically a residential product. There is no service level guarantee on either. This means that if your service goes down, it can take up to 2 days to fix the problem! Try to pay your employees to sit on their hands for that long! Now does it take that long? Not very often. But I have a client that encountered that situation. And it was a costly mistake! They switched to a T1. They pay a little more, but it's called piece of mind insurance that his employees won't need a 2 day lunch break!
Plus Charter has a horrible reputation for their business customers! |
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