| [HSI] Questions regarding HSI. I know charter has data caps on its internet service plans but do they really enforce them? |
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zed261Premium
join:2011-11-11
Cleveland, TN | there enforced exspcialy on the lower end tiers on the 100 meg tier not as much but still enforced
however if you wanna not worry about caps you can always go with bussnuss class internet |
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 BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to magic108
you'll find out when you go over and they contact you. Since you have to go over 3 times before getting cut off you'll have plenty of fair warning. Some have posted they go over and never get notice some have gone over and have. So it just depends. |
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| reply to magic108
I depends on the area, and how crowded it is. Here where I live, the caps are not actively enforced, but if you drive 2 hours south, to the St. Paul/minneapolis area, they are enforced to a t. |
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| reply to magic108
Haven't heard a peep from Charter so far. Only time will tell. Thanks guys |
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| said by magic108:Haven't heard a peep from Charter so far. Only time will tell. Thanks guys
well, good luck. At least keep an eye on your usage with your router, and if you are that worried about it, enact a data limit thru your router so that it will cut you off once you hit the cap of your tier. BTW, last month(jan), i used 2TB according to my router, and have not heard a peep. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Chubbysumo:said by magic108:Haven't heard a peep from Charter so far. Only time will tell. Thanks guys
well, good luck. At least keep an eye on your usage with your router, and if you are that worried about it, enact a data limit thru your router so that it will cut you off once you hit the cap of your tier. BTW, last month(jan), i used 2TB according to my router, and have not heard a peep. Are you sure that's all internet traffic and not traffic that is between devices on your home network? |
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mikiee
join:2009-06-10
Saint Louis, MO | reply to magic108
So if you watch, say, 2 hours of Netflix a day and 3 hours of internet ( no major downloads, just surfing), would that get you into cap trouble? |
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| said by mikiee:So if you watch, say, 2 hours of Netflix a day and 3 hours of internet ( no major downloads, just surfing), would that get you into cap trouble?
assuming netflix HD, which is about 5mbps total, so, that comes out to about 4.5GB of netflix for 2 hours, and normal browsing is usually around 2-3GB for a whole day, so, thats about 8GB per day. thats about 240GB per month, with nothing else. |
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Yes, I'm positive it's all WAN traffic. There is a separate meter for LAN bound traffic. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | reply to Chubbysumo
said by Chubbysumo:said by mikiee:So if you watch, say, 2 hours of Netflix a day and 3 hours of internet ( no major downloads, just surfing), would that get you into cap trouble?
assuming netflix HD, which is about 5mbps total, so, that comes out to about 4.5GB of netflix for 2 hours, and normal browsing is usually around 2-3GB for a whole day, so, thats about 8GB per day. thats about 240GB per month, with nothing else. Technically Netflix HD maxes out at 4800 kbps which is 4 GB for 2 hours, but whatever. Netflix HD will never actually stream at 4800 kbps for the entire 2 hours. And some HD never even gets that high.
Normal surfing does not use 2-3 GB for 3 hours. Especially if one is not downloading anything. I'd say under 150 GB for the situation mikiee asked about. |
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2 edits | You do realize that you average web page is now around 3MB(Facebook is getting closer to 4 now) to load with ads and such, right? That adds up pretty quick for web browsing, and the. You toss in a little light downloading, and I think he will be at 200 at the very least. As a side note: there are 8 bits to a byte, so, 4800 kbps is 4.8mbps. 4.8/8 is 0.6. This means 0.6MB per second, which is 36MB per minute, or 2160MB per hour. It's more than 2GB per hour, and with a slight overhead factored in, it's actually closer to 2400MB per hour. |
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BF69Premium
join:2004-07-28
Camden, TN | said by Chubbysumo:You do realize that you average web page is now around 3MB(Facebook is getting closer to 4 now) to load with ads and such, right? That adds up pretty quick for web browsing, yeah and once that page loads and you stay on it for 10 minutes there is 0 MB being downloaded for the rest of that time.
You toss in a little light downloading, and I think he will be at 200 at the very least.
As a side note: there are 8 bits to a byte, so, 4800 kbps is 4.8mbps. 4.8/8 is 0.6. This means 0.6MB per second, which is 36MB per minute, or 2160MB per hour. It's more than 2GB per hour, and with a slight overhead factored in, it's actually closer to 2400MB per hour.
also 4800 kbps = 600 KBps = 2,160,000 KB per hour. 2,160,00 KB = 2109 MB = 2.06 GB |
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said by mikiee:So if you watch, say, 2 hours of Netflix a day and 3 hours of internet ( no major downloads, just surfing), would that get you into cap trouble?
That doesn't sound like much more than I do, minus the Netflix, but I do other things that would make up for what you're using there.
I haven't even come close to my 250GB limit in the last 10 months!
Cripe! I've only used about 12GB in the last 10 days and have been relatively busy doing computer repairs/updates/re-installs, etc.
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