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 | | Re: Is this the end of caps? Yes, they need to either:
1. Get rid of the cap all together (preferred)
2. Up the cap to something more reasonable (1tb)
3. Give us different caps depending on the line speed.
- 12/2 - 250GB Cap
- 22/4 - 500GB Cap
- 50/10 - 1TB Cap | |
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| | 1. its a soft cap, hardly anyone gets notified at 250GB.
2. buy a business connection and have no cap. | |
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 ·Millenicom
 ·AT&T Southeast
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| Re: Is this the end of caps? I imagine they are thinking like a friend of mine did when he replaced his truck. He bought a turbo diesel 4x4 crew cab to replace a gas 4x4 crew cab. His reasoning was that while he only occasionally had to tow heavy loads, he had been disappointed in the towing performance of the gas truck traveling up and down the hills in North Georgia with large boat and car trailers. The transmission and torque of the diesel made it easier to keep his speed constant in the hills. Similar to Comcast's present situation. I would bet that Comcast has heard about uploading speeds being too low more often than they have heard complaints about the 250GB cap. So they think:
The majority of our customers are uploading large files to the internet only occasionally, but when they do, they need it to be done much more quickly than they can with our current service offerings. And we think they are willing to pay more to do so. We do not think that they will be doing that much more uploading in terms of GB per month, because that has not been a complaint from the majority of the people complaining about upload speeds, so there is no need to change the cap, at this time or in the very near future.
I would bet that after DOCSIS 3.0 is fully deployed, downstream and upstream channel bonding, for all Comcast customers, the cap will be increased significantly. Because by that time there will be more competition from FTTH and there will be more users going over the cap. I also think Comcast learned a lot about network management from the P2P reset fiasco. They discovered that they had better congestion management tools already available than the blunt cutoff of P2P for a particular user. They could adjust the data rates of that user or another group of users until the congestion problem at a particular node subsided. Much better than the faked reset packets. I think they are going to use much more finesse in managing network traffic in the future than in the past, simply because it will allow them to keep more customers satisfied and paying for service, with maximum efficient use of their network expenditures. | |
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| | |  r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX | Re: Is this the end of caps? If that is the case they should advertise their connection as 768 kbps with speed boost up to 100 mbps.
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Republicans: less fiscally conservative than that other party. | |
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: Is this the end of caps? That makes no sense to most people. | |
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| | | | | r81984Fair and BalancedPremium
join:2001-11-14
Katy, TX | Re: Is this the end of caps? Sure it does. No matter how fast you download your average speed for the month has to be be under 768kbps for you to stay under the 250GB cap.
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join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
kudos:1 | Re: Is this the end of caps? My speed is 768knit, but sometimes its 100mbit? huh? what am I paying for?
Average speed won't be the mathematical average over a whole month, its going to the average of the last 5 seconds of a download progress bar. Non-geeks won't be doing math before buying a broadband tier. | |
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