| No problems with caps when... I have no problem with bandwidth caps when they are in reason and if they allow you to pay a little bit more for a much larger cap.
If verizon came out and said on our 20 Mbps service we are not going to complain if you say use a terabyte a month, but if your using 2, 3, and 4 TB in a month every month like some people do we are going to charge you more or limit your service.
I have no problem with that and I would think most people won't have a problem with that. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | Yeah like, $40 for a 10/3 with a 1TB cap and like $50 for a 10/3 with a 2TB cap would be more reasonable IMHO. $56 for 10/3 3TB ect. |
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Amen to that!
I've got fios and I've been watching tons of netflix and play some internet games here and there and the usage trend makes it look next to impossible to bust all they way up to 2TB in a month.
The only way that is looking possible is if these people are trying to do it by downloading all the illegal movies and software they can running their torrents 24/7
They are only going to do one thing... ruin it for the rest of us fios customers who just use enough to watch netflix and upload a few files here and again. |
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 Vamp9190Premium
join:2002-02-11
Chantilly, VA
kudos:1 | reply to dlewis23
The problem is that you are thinking in TB, but the providers are thinking in MB and GB!
Their caps are so low that anyone using the internet to play games, watch Netflix and do legitimate tasks will be paying a few HUNDERD dollars a month, or more.
Who knows how they count all the 'data transfer.' What if you go to an online shopping site like Amazon and 1 page is say, 100kb (probably more because of images, etc.) and you browse for 30 min and hit 50 other pages looking at stuff.....that's 5MB right there. |
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jp10558Premium
join:2005-06-24
Willseyville, NY | If they're looking at charging $300+ a month to most people due to caps and overages, that's got to spark some competition in building out their own networks. Heck, anyone who's paying those sorts of costs could start thinking about a T1 with no caps for christs sake.
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I'm not sure where your getting the speed provisions for your idea.
It would seem more fitting to adopt this kinda thing to their current tiers rather than just making it all 10/3
They should just do something like comcast and just have 2TB monthly caps on all their tiers if they have to.
I would rather they didn't but if people keep cranking out over 2TB usage in a month on residential fios they may have to... that or boot those people. |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | "I'm not sure where your getting the speed provisions for your idea."
The first # to pop in to my head. it would work the same if it was like $60 for 20/5 with a 1TB cap, $70 for 20/5 w/ 2TB ect.
"They should just do something like comcast and just have 2TB monthly caps on all their tiers if they have to"
That would work well too. |
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