 baineschile2600 ways to livePremium
join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to BF69
Re: Wow 100m! A higher upload increases my chance to host a game; i dont host a server. |
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Call a wahmbulance already, person who gets paid to post message about caps on every Comcast story |
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YET !!! |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to baineschile
said by baineschile:A higher upload increases my chance to host a game; i dont host a server. How much upload do you need to host a game? Hell one can do that with 2 Mbps upload. Besides hosting a game MAY violate the TOS. I don't know the nuts and bolts of Comast's TOS. |
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2
 ·Clear Wireless
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said by me1212:Yes it is a decent cap, but when CV has 101m with no cap But it's not real. Ignoring overhead, there are 4 x 38mbps channels on the entire segment that users are connected to. That's 152mpbs of total capacity shared across at least 100 subscribers, if not more. Under the 101mbps plan, exactly 1 person on the segment can consume that bandwidth at any given time.
You have to see these plans for what they are; they are no different than the late-night infomercials that promise 6-pack abs in 3 weeks.
At this point you're just comparing the BS claims of one company against the BS claims of another company. |
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Re: Wow 100m! Assume much? You have no idea what he's doing. |
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It's called splitting the nodes, which is not that expensive for the company to do. And not everyone in the area has the highest tier of broadband. The vast majority subscribe to the lowest tier. |
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now you can hit the 250GB cap in a day |
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said by espaeth:said by me1212:Yes it is a decent cap, but when CV has 101m with no cap But it's not real. Ignoring overhead, there are 4 x 38mbps channels on the entire segment that users are connected to. That's 152mpbs of total capacity shared across at least 100 subscribers, if not more. Under the 101mbps plan, exactly 1 person on the segment can consume that bandwidth at any given time. You have to see these plans for what they are; they are no different than the late-night infomercials that promise 6-pack abs in 3 weeks. At this point you're just comparing the BS claims of one company against the BS claims of another company. maybe you should read the cablevision forums with the people who have ultra and have been getting anywere from 92-120Mbp/s |
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Not the mid west states. No FiOS to be seen here. Just DSL. Which cable blows away. |
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wentlancYou Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to espaeth
None of this is real, and that's why people are not happy.
The 50 meg tier can transfer 16 Terabytes in a month. They are giving you 1.5% of the bandwidth that they are charging you for. The 100 meg teir is pointless except as a method to add revenue for people who use more than the cap. The speed upgrade at that point is pointless.
$$ grab....
How much of what you pay for should you actually be able to get?
cw |
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me1212
join:2008-11-20
Pleasant Hill, MO | reply to BF69
I know 1Tb will not be enough soon, right now it kinda is but in a few years we will need at least 2TB. Man I hope the cap dies. I don't care if the ISPs just drop it cause they see a way to get money from it or if it is because stuff like FiOS cablevision and other uncaped cablecos(or FTTH/other ISPs) force them to via competition(IMHO the best solution). |
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espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Clear Wireless
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said by hbk4099:maybe you should read the cablevision forums with the people who have ultra and have been getting anywere from 92-120Mbp/s Let's see how those stats look in 6 months when more than a handful of people in the entire OOL service area have Ultra subscriptions. |
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espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
kudos:2 Reviews:
·Clear Wireless
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said by wentlanc:The 50 meg tier can transfer 16 Terabytes in a month. They are giving you 1.5% of the bandwidth that they are charging you for. Unless you're paying $500+/mo, you're not even starting to pay for dedicated 50mbps service.
said by wentlanc:How much of what you pay for should you actually be able to get? That depends on if you understand what you are actually paying for. Not the crap the marketing departments are telling you, but what you are honestly paying for. |
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 Vumes
join:2009-01-04
Beaverton, OR | reply to baineschile
said by baineschile:What markets do FiOS and Comcast overlap in? I am aware of a few places on the east coast (Virginia, NJ) are there any others in the midwest or west? I am out on the West Coast near Portland, Oregon and I currently have Fios 20/5 and do know that Comcast offers Docsis 3.0 at my place as well. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to espaeth
said by espaeth:said by hbk4099:maybe you should read the cablevision forums with the people who have ultra and have been getting anywere from 92-120Mbp/s Let's see how those stats look in 6 months when more than a handful of people in the entire OOL service area have Ultra subscriptions. Yep, and there is a limit to splitting the nodes, at a certain point, it will be cheaper just to mount a gigabit ethernet switch on the pole and run fiber to your house than to give you a dedicated fiber node since what happens if 3 adjacent houses have 24/7 P2Pers? |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | reply to digitalfreak
said by digitalfreak:Assume much? You have no idea what he's doing. 1.5TB download?
Either your running a home video editing business, or your just DDOSing someone.
(1500000/(5/8))/60/60/24=27 days a month worth of SDTV, sure your actually using what your downloading, only if your a robot with no sleep or bathroom needs |
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said by 54903205:said by baineschile:What markets do FiOS and Comcast overlap in? I am aware of a few places on the east coast (Virginia, NJ) are there any others in the midwest or west? Delaware. Most of Maryland. *All* of Washington, DC. Most of Pennsylvania. (Comcast, in addition to being based in Philly, also is the dominant cable company in most of the non-rural parts of Pennsylvania.) Most of Virginia. (Verizon, not AT&T, is the majority ILEC in Virginia; not just in the Tidewater/Northern Neck region, which is ex-GTE territory, as most of the rest of the state is core Bell Atlantic (and before that, C&P Telephone).)
Further, for the record, while some of the area that Verizon is selling to Frontier Communications is the disconnected/rural portions of ex-GTE territory, some of it goes back to the beginning of Verizon, if not Bell Atlantic (West Virginia, for example, was part of the original C&P Telephone, a core component of Bell Atlantic). West Virginia and New England in particular have historically been among the most difficult in terms of M&R for linepersons (climatologically speaking); no wonder VZ wants to get rid of them. |
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 Ark
join:2002-06-08
Ada, MI | reply to baineschile
»www.google.com/search?q=1%20Mb/s···GB/month
1Mb/s = 321 GB/month, so it would take ~24 days, but you could STILL hit a 250GB cap on that line. |
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