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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Kansas City, MO

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Re: Excessive use of bandwidth

Well, that's not true (at least not now or not in our area) according to my quick tests.

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areoh

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That was from my 10/1 being cut to 5/500, BTW.

Pashune
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Gautier, MS

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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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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?

areoh
join:2001-11-10
Kansas City, MO

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"Nope, we still monitor on weekends."

Pashune
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join:2006-04-14
Gautier, MS

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Weird. I have no log entries on my bandwidth records for the 25th or 26th of this month. Anyone else experiencing this problem?

liviorn
join:2009-06-21
Rio Rancho, NM

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yep, same here.

Pashune
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join:2006-04-14
Gautier, MS

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Has anyone passed the half-month limit yet with no warnings?

areoh
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Kansas City, MO

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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 [26] comments

Pashune
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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 [26] comments
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.

liviorn
join:2009-06-21
Rio Rancho, NM

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said by Pashune:

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.
Similar things here. For me yesterday was 8'th time according to their records, although if I'm looking at DUMeter stats, which never lies, it's only 5-th. I think CableOne started having problems on 4-th of this month, after that their stats all messed up for me.

Pashune
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Gautier, MS

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Drats, it messed up my bandwidth records again! This time it was for the 15th of this month. How it magically went from 2,450 mb to 4,668 mb is a mystery to me.
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If they keep screwing up like this, I could very well reach the 15-day limit. I'm already on my way to day 11.
jdjbuffalo
join:2004-01-17
Denver, CO

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said by Pashune:

If they keep screwing up like this, I could very well reach the 15-day limit. I'm already on my way to day 11.
Is this during their monitoring period (12pm-12am) or just during the entire day?

I know that you can push quite a lot through during their non-monitored time frames.

I'll have to take another look at my router logs but I've been averaging 150 - 200GB per month without a problem. I do most of my downloading during their non-monitoring time.

On average I exceed the 3GB daily limit about 7 times a month.
Zzabbo
join:2005-10-21
Joplin, MO

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I can safely say we pass the 3gb limit at least 4-5 days a week, and have done so for all of this year. We have yet to have any issues beyond the fact we get dropped to standard speed most nights on our 10/1 plan, no warnings or issues with excessive use.

I also just before posting went and paid my bill and found out that they are offering the Ultra service in my area as of today. $83 for 12/1.5, 11.5gb daily threshold. I had them upgrade me, we'll see how the new threshold works out.

Pashune
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Gautier, MS

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Let us know how well powerboost works out for you as well.
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said by jdjbuffalo:
said by Pashune:

If they keep screwing up like this, I could very well reach the 15-day limit. I'm already on my way to day 11.
Is this during their monitoring period (12pm-12am) or just during the entire day?

I know that you can push quite a lot through during their non-monitored time frames.

I'll have to take another look at my router logs but I've been averaging 150 - 200GB per month without a problem. I do most of my downloading during their non-monitoring time.

On average I exceed the 3GB daily limit about 7 times a month.
I'm referring to the 3 gb daily limit on my 5 mb package. I exceed the 12pm-12am 2 gb (or however much it is) threshold about 6 or 7 times per month, sometimes a few more.
jdjbuffalo
join:2004-01-17
Denver, CO

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said by Pashune:

I'm referring to the 3 gb daily limit on my 5 mb package. I exceed the 12pm-12am 2 gb (or however much it is) threshold about 6 or 7 times per month, sometimes a few more.
I have the same plan.

Exceeding the 3GB during the monitoring period (12pm-12am) should be fine as long as you don't do it for 15 or more days in a month.

Pashune
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Gautier, MS

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said by jdjbuffalo:
said by Pashune:

I'm referring to the 3 gb daily limit on my 5 mb package. I exceed the 12pm-12am 2 gb (or however much it is) threshold about 6 or 7 times per month, sometimes a few more.
I have the same plan.

Exceeding the 3GB during the monitoring period (12pm-12am) should be fine as long as you don't do it for 15 or more days in a month.
Ah, that's good to hear. Someone else confirmed the same thing a few weeks back. Are you going by what's in the AUP or from experience or.. from a customer rep.?

I guess I like to be too careful. Call me paranoid?
jdjbuffalo
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Denver, CO

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I'm going by the AUP and my own experience. The customer services rep I talked to haven't directly said as much but I did discuss with them that I was concerned with going over the cap too many times in a month. They took a look at my account. They said that I had nothing to worry about and I wasn't even close to triggering their system.

Pashune
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And you're pulling 150-200 GB per month?

Woah, I've got nothing to worry about. I might pull 100 GB in a month at the very most.

But with my new PC being built, that might change a bit.

Either way, thanks for the reply.