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kenneyb
join:2002-02-19
San Diego, CA

kenneyb

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New higher bandwidth and how it effects CAP(s)

ATT Uverse sent me a postcard announcing
that my 10Mbs download speed had been increased
to 12Mbs. And that that had already occurred
and would not cost me any more $/mo. In-fact
several weeks ago I noticed the increase in
download speed. You have to carefully test
as results can vary widely depending on where
you are testing from/to. But I clearly have a
faster download speed. Upload appears to
remain the same at 1.5Mbs.

Having said that how will that effect my CAPS,
in that Uverse may or may not apply CAPS to my
connection? So far I've not had them inform me
of what I've used. Quite honestly I'm not sure
how to find that out on a day to day basis.

If I now have a faster download speed, but
the CAP remains at 150GB per month, won't
that get me into trouble earlier?

gdm
MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL

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gdm

MVM

AT&T hasn't implemented caps at all yet. They are testing in two areas so far and thats it. To answer your question yes it will make you reach your caps faster.

djrobx
Premium Member
join:2000-05-31
Reno, NV

djrobx to kenneyb

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to kenneyb
AT&T has a bandwidth usage monitoring tool. It's not working in areas that are not testing caps.

Having more bandwidth means you have the potential to reach your cap faster. But if you watch 3 streaming HD movies per week, having more bandwidth isn't going to result in you being able to watch less movies.
kenneyb
join:2002-02-19
San Diego, CA

kenneyb

Member

Thanks all. Here's a little explanation of
what I'm doing. I am a developer for a couple
of the Linux Distros. Those being Mandriva and
Puppy Linux. I also dabble a little with Fedora.
I run what's call a "local mirror" of the
repository of all of the files associated
with those distros. In the case of Mandriva
that can, and does, result in a directory
that contains upwards of 30,000 files and
sometimes reaches 40GB+. The source is:

»www.kernel.org

Because kernel.org is very high on the food
chain of the Internet I can sustain constant
download speeds right at the max that Uverse
allows me. Last time I did this was about
8 weeks ago when I sync'd up with Mandriva
2009.1. For about 6 hours my Uverse connection
maintained a constant about 9.5Mbs datarate.
It was quite something to watch. Uverse never
stumbled.

Now when I resync the data rate is right at
about 14Mbs. It's all pretty impressive. I
don't download the whole thing that often.
Maybe about once every 6 months. Every day
though I do a resync and that can at times
involve a couple of gigs.

gdm
MVM
join:2001-06-15
Mchenry, IL

gdm

MVM

Downloading data is downloading data whether it takes you 10 hours or 2 hours. If you are always downloading the same amount or close having 10 vs 12megs makes no difference.