Pashune
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Gautier, MS
 ·CableOne
 ·AT&T Southeast
| reply to liviorn
Re: Excessive use of bandwidth
said by liviorn  :7/1/2009 - 7/31/2009 285GB 8/1/2009 - 8/31/2009 320GB 
With numbers like that, I need not worry... I think. The most I've ever downloaded in a month would have to be close to 90 gb or so. If you add uploading, I guess that's a few more gb.
Unless I discover an awesome anime/tv show, I average around 60-70 gb per month.
I can tolerate the daily threshold caps as I do most of my downloading off peak hours, but it's the 15-day max 3 gb limit that's worrying me now and then. I'll download 7 gb one day and maybe 800 mb the next, sometimes less.
Add that with 4-5 other people using my connection, but they're typically not heavy downloaders like I am. I actually once had Net Meter running on all of my computers to monitor usage. 
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YodaGoneMad
| reply to Idaho Ho
I was wondering if anyone knew for sure if it was bandwidth during the monitoring period only, or all bandwidth used? Like should I look at my daily totals and use that as my tally, or is it only more than 5 gigs used between noon and midnight?
I am at around 8 or 9 days now with more than 5 gig total, and my month does not end until the 15th, I really don't need trouble. |
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dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
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| I was assuming it was 5 GB a day. And If you go over the limit from 12 to 12 . I think it is like double trouble. So I make sure 20 days are under the limit and 10 days are way over.  By the way the days I go over. I dont care what time of day, I will still download. Sometimes I download 3 days straight. They dont throttle till 4pm any way. Even then 600kbps is still nice. But 1200kbps is even better. |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS
·CableOne
·AT&T Southeast
| said by dr3yec :I was assuming it was 5 GB a day. And If you go over the limit from 12 to 12 . I think it is like double trouble. So I make sure 20 days are under the limit and 10 days are way over. By the way the days I go over. I dont care what time of day, I will still download. Sometimes I download 3 days straight. They dont throttle till 4pm any way. Even then 600kbps is still nice. But 1200kbps is even better. Just a question; are you referring to 10 days exceeding the 12pm-12am threshold cap, 3-5 gb daily cap, or both?
As for the 20 other days, do you exceed your daily 5 gb cap at all on those days?
The daily cap is 3 gb if you have their 5 mbit service.
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dr3yec
join:2002-12-19
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·CableOne
| Just a question; are you referring to 10 days exceeding the 12pm-12am threshold cap, 3-5 GB daily cap, or both? Both
As for the 20 other days, do you exceed your daily 5 GB cap at all on those days? Nope
If I am not downloading I only use maybe 2 GB a day. |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS
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| I do have to wonder if they'd terminate my account for going one or two days over the half-month limit.  I'd probably never go that far but there's always that small chance. It's kind of annoying having to check my bandwidth usage on a daily basis. 
I also don't like the schedule of downloading loads of content one day while almost nothing the next. 3 gb isn't a lot of data imho and CableOne is too expensive as it is right now. Though if you're safe downloading 250+ gb of data while I'll probably never download that much in one month, why shouldn't I be safe? 
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YodaGoneMad
| reply to Idaho Ho
Alright guys, I contacted cable one for clafication of the rule. This is what they said.
"This applies to the monitoring period. No action will be taken for data downloaded between Midnight and noon or weekends."
So anything in the off hours is 100% free and clear, in addition apparently all threshold caps and monitoring has been removed for weekends, at least in my area. Pretty sweet really, much better than the Comcast 250 gig quota, I can easily hit 400+ gigs on cableone, and they are cool with it. |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS
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·AT&T Southeast
| said by YodaGoneMad :
Alright guys, I contacted cable one for clafication of the rule. This is what they said.
"This applies to the monitoring period. No action will be taken for data downloaded between Midnight and noon or weekends."
So anything in the off hours is 100% free and clear, in addition apparently all threshold caps and monitoring has been removed for weekends, at least in my area. Pretty sweet really, much better than the Comcast 250 gig quota, I can easily hit 400+ gigs on cableone, and they are cool with it.
Awesome! That's great because I do most of my heavier downloading closer to midnight and off peak hours.
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS
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| reply to YodaGoneMad
Though again, I've gotta ask...
quote:
Alright guys, I contacted cable one for clafication of the rule. This is what they said.
"This applies to the monitoring period. No action will be taken for data downloaded between Midnight and noon or weekends."
So anything in the off hours is 100% free and clear, in addition apparently all threshold caps and monitoring has been removed for weekends, at least in my area. Pretty sweet really, much better than the Comcast 250 gig quota, I can easily hit 400+ gigs on cableone, and they are cool with it.
Does this essentially mean that I could download over 3 gb between the hours of 12 am and 12 pm for more than 15 days of my billing cycle without worry?
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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Sioux City, IA | No more monitoring on weekends? Really? That's certainty good news, if true. I'm going to check my sources on that. |
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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Sioux City, IA
| Well, that's not true (at least not now or not in our area) according to my quick tests.
Please see »img195.imageshack.us/img195/2356···gemc.jpg
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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Sioux City, IA | That was from my 10/1 being cut to 5/500, BTW. |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS | Maybe they refer to the non-monitoring period as the time in which they don't count the bandwidth you used total over the weekend or between the hours of 12am-12pm?
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Pashune
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·AT&T Southeast
| said by Pashune :Maybe they refer to the non-monitoring period as the time in which they don't count the bandwidth you used total over the weekend or between the hours of 12am-12pm? Can anyone truly confirm this?
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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Sioux City, IA | "Nope, we still monitor on weekends." |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS | Weird. I have no log entries on my bandwidth records for the 25th or 26th of this month. Anyone else experiencing this problem?
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liviorn
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Rio Rancho, NM | yep, same here. |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS | Has anyone passed the half-month limit yet with no warnings?
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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Sioux City, IA
| You don't know of anyone?
"but I know a few people who have downloaded anywhere from 300-500 gb per month on a residential package from them WITHOUT account termination/phone calls." »Trying To Decipher CableOne's New Caps |
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Pashune
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Gautier, MS
·CableOne
·AT&T Southeast
| said by areoh :You don't know of anyone? "but I know a few people who have downloaded anywhere from 300-500 gb per month on a residential package from them WITHOUT account termination/phone calls." » Trying To Decipher CableOne's New Caps Yeah, but that was staying within the allotted half-month limit.
Either I'm having a really hard time trying to stay below the daily cap (Not even exceeding the daily threshold mind you), or there's something wrong with the bandwidth management table.
When I checked my usage for yesterday earlier today, I downloaded around 1,900 mb of data. I checked it again this evening and it's at 3,589 mb. What happened? I've already exceeded the 3 gb limit 7 times this month. My total download for the month so far is 54 gb; 58 gb if you include upload.
My wireless is secured with WPA and my computers are free of ad-ware, spyware, etc. not to mention they're all running Firefox with adblock. I download quite a bit now and then, but not hundreds of gb each month.
Just gotta hope CableOne doesn't kick me off.
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