| Why are people ignoring DSL? DSL doesnt have caps does it? The phone companies have no vested interest in stopping video downloads.
Everywhere can get DSL now..even my parents that live in the boonies.
Anyway, a 100GB or 250GB cap is not much of a factor. I practically live on heavy bandwidth cam sites and youtube, as well as spending about 16 hours most days on the net, and I'm only using an average 4GB per day so far this month. So the 100GB cap would crimp me a little bit, but the 250 wouldnt touch me at all (thats almost 10GB per day, more than double what I seem to be using!). Thats on a an 8MB cable connection from suddenlink btw, no caps that I'm aware of.
And again, I'm off 4 days per week, and sit on the net 16+ hours those days, on many live video sites with 4-5 browsers open streaming video at once at times.
I cant imagine what the people whining in this thread are doing to use that much BW..
Oh wait, I know exactly what theyre doing, running 24/7 downloads of warez and pirated video from newsgroups. That is literally the ONLY way to use that much BW. In fact, those people are downloading so much theres no possible way they even have time to watch it all! Seriously! They are literally just downloading crap and letting the majority of it sit on their hard drive without watching it, then eventually deleting it. Serious pack rat mentality. |
| Uh, no and no, unfortunately.
AT&T provides DSL here in St. Louis, Missouri - and they ALSO provide their U-Verse service, delivering TV over IP combined with broadband, and VoIP as an option on top of it all.
I don't believe they've put a formal "cap" on anything yet, but I've heard runmblings about them wanting to do it. If Charter does it successfully, it'll be that much more motivation for them to do likewise. And yes, they'll say "Hey, if you're downloading all that video content and exceeding your usage cap, you should consider paying up for U-Verse, so we can stream your TV to you!"
Also, where I work, DSL is totally unavailable still. They never built it out to this part of the city. (I wish they did, because all we can get is a way overpriced T1 circuit to get 1.5mbit transfer rates.)
said by anon1234 :
DSL doesnt have caps does it? The phone companies have no vested interest in stopping video downloads.
Everywhere can get DSL now..even my parents that live in the boonies.
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