| ... and now we have caps. Got a notice with the latest cable bill, Buckeye now has caps based on your speed tier. While I don't like caps, at least they tiered it so if you have the 110Mbps tier you have a 1TB cap instead of something silly like 200GB.
However, now I won't feel (too) guilty if I run it right up to my limit each month. If they cap me, I'm going to get what I pay for. 
Cheers. |
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| Always had them. They were just never enforced. Their TOS/AUP always stated they could limit your usage. They decided to enforce it due to those consuming more data than the others and costing more money in upgrading etc. |
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| reply to bex_caps
So what are the caps for the tiers and when exactly does it start,seems i didn't get the letter in mine. |
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| June 1st. Everyone has stated different things about when getting the notices. I'm wondering if the notices were sent out to those in the 1.5%. Cause i never got mine either. |
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| reply to bex_caps
Well at least they were not complete pricks about the caps I guess how Time Warner was. I think some of the faster tiers could use a bump in cap but the low teirs are not bad. |
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| the caps are far better than ATT as well. T stops at 150gigs on ALL tiers. They're product is also sub-par with Buckeye- meaning the more TVs are turned on- the slower the Internet gets- use the phone- the internet slows down. It's also not Fiber Optic like they claim either.
Better caps, better company. |
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Caps are so lame. I just wasted my time complaining to Buckeye about the caps (I will have a 500 GB cap). Some months, I will get close to the cap or I may even go over, but since it will be $10 per 50 GB block on the overages, I guess I will have to deal with it.
At least is it generous compared to other ISP's like ATT and Comcrap, but it still sucks!! I would rather pay an extra $20 or whatever and not worry about any caps at all. |
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| reply to 25139889
I average about 20-30 GB/month, obviously not in the 1.5%, so it's not that. I will agree at least they tiered them. However, my parents for instance who are heavy Roku/Netflix users I will have to monitor to make sure they don't go over. |
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| Business Class service will remove the caps. You'll pay more but you get no caps. |
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| reply to bex_caps
Ladynaye-
You are free to move to the Business side and have the caps removed. They are not capped. |
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| There business site also states a cap on the packages |
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| One rep a week ago told me ONLY Streaming Video would be counted, and E-Mail/Web surfing would not. She obviously didn't know what she was talking about.
I have been a 10 year customer, I called and they gave me the 26/1.5 with 350GB on new customer pricing. Lowered my bill by $15 and added 10mbps. But my monthly average is 500-1000GB. Still not enough GB.
I am looking at getting multiple 6mbps DSL lines, but as it seems, all Toledo DSL is just sourced to buckeye or ATT and both have even lower caps on DSL.
Is there any unlimited internet in Toledo? Should I just save up $10K and have cogent run me a dedicated line? |
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| reply to Proclan
What are the business caps, if any? I can't believe they are going to cap businesses. Perhaps I'll inquire to see if any of my customers have received anything with their bill.
If this is true, some of my (business) customers are going to positively sh** bricks, and we'll probably have to start banning Internet radio, youtube, set up central patch servers, etc.
Cheers.
PS: Now would be the time for Google or someone else with no caps and more speed to come into the area of NW Ohio, and eat Buckeye's (and all of the other incumbent capped carriers) lunch .... |
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| They don't have caps. You would not pay the same and have SLAs if they capped you.
Their site also does NOT state caps and reps will tell you they are cap free.
How can you charge someone $300+ a month for a service and cap it? It would be cheaper for said company to go purchase a leased FULLY dedicated line from an actual telco and be cap free.
and Bex_Caps they are free to. Nothing is stopping them- and NEVER has. Also if you didn't get the Memo- Google has all but basically given up on their FTTH project. and FYI- Overbuilding is pointless and the overbuilder always loses. |
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You know it sure would be nice if that Consumption graph actually reset at the start of the month. Why is it keeping track of half of may and now the start of june and combining them?
Or are they gonna do it like their billing cycle where around the 15th starts a new month? |
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| and actually yes- it would have to be done by billing cycle. That way you can be billed at the time you hit an overage. It only makes sense to do it by billing cycles. |
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Also no carrier is going to come to TOL and build a wired network. It costs too much and there is NO ROI on it.
And Google is finding out how expensive it is. They've done but all given up on their FTTH dreams already.
Also you would find out more than 90% of the people will NOT give up their current provider. That is a HUGE reason VZ's FiOS network is NOT expanding and NEVER will at this point. And also that is why at&t is NOT building out new U-Verse areas. They can't get customers to switch. |
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| reply to NWOhio2
I would have to find out what the price is for business cable since I have the 60Mbps package. I did find info on their business tiers here:
»www.buckeye-telesystem.com/inter···ess.html
It seems to be capped as well.
On the FIOS note, if they moved here, I would get them in a heartbeat. FTTP is about as good as it gets. |
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| FiOS is NOT moving here. You do realize the product is dead right? VZ is NOT selling it any more- and they do NOT do business in Ohio. It's FRONTIER.
When talking to BEX in Business they claim it is NOT capped. But it could be of making businesses order leased lines. Right now i'm the process of deploying my own network in Toledo. Fully wireless. Wanna know more- PM me. |
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| I'm thinking a nice public works project to light up all that dark fiber and run fiber all over the place, right to my house. Let ISP's compete on price, and the network maintenance (physical plant) is shared between them all. That'll put all these unemployed people to work for years!
Slightly tongue in cheek, slightly serious.
There really is no competition - you've got ATT (or whatever ILEC), Buckeye, and perhaps a WISP (but they usually cannot compete on price) and of course satellite (yuck). Some areas has even worse choices ....
Cheers. |
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