Chongo
join:2007-12-11
Phoenix, AZ | reply to cscottm
Re: [CenturyTel] Being terminated for excessive usage It was the first message. |
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If they have a meter, and it's their meter everyone has to go by, what sense is there in only showing you the meter once you've gone past the limit? Are these guys serious? |
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Was that the first time that message was recieved by their account? If it was then I would have to assume that the 800GB amount triggered it & not so much, the 400 GB.
If they like watching netflix, I would probably suggest changing the quality of the stream to either low or medium. |
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Chongo
join:2007-12-11
Phoenix, AZ | reply to Ravynmagi7
I went to my mothers house earlier this week. When I got on her computer to read the comics I was greeted by a web message stating they were in violation of the excessive use policy. It show the last four months. 12/12 to 3/13. ≈400 GB a month for Dec, Jan, and Feb. March was almost 800GB. I believe it was a combination of Netflix and streaming the Jodie Arias trial on a daily basis. |
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 billaustinthey call me Mr. BillPremium,MVM
join:2001-10-13
North Las Vegas, NV
kudos:3 | reply to Sometwo
Reminds me of an old saying I heard when I was much younger. 
»en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lies,_damn···atistics |
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BTW is it just me or is CL lying with numbers?
quote:
Q: What is considered “excessive” or “high volume” use?
A: This small percentage of customers is on the extreme margin, using 30-1000 times the monthly volume
of customers in the same speed tier.
Less than 0.5% (one half of one percent) of customers approach these listed limits. This high usage
would equate to millions of emails, tens of thousands of photos or MP3 files and hundreds of hours of
streaming videos.
The "30-1000 times the usage of other people" is so generic no one can conclude anything from it. The range of numbers is ridiculous, and there is no definition of how much other people in the tier are downloading.
There is no way less than .5% of people are using more than 30 times the average person in the tier. Maybe .5% are using 1000 times the average. The numbers are worthless. |
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I'm not so sure that's what they mean. You also get billed once a month, so it could just as easily be your billing date.
A "defined period" could mean either of those, or some time they aren't saying, or it could actually mean if at ANY period you go over 250 GB.
Can someone from centurylink explain when the meter rolls over? |
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on the PDF document, it says "For each calendar month". I read that to be from the 1st to the 31st of each month. |
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This says the cap is 300 GB, but the eup says it is 250 GB.
»CenturyLink 'Fires' Customers For Excessive Use...
»qwest.centurylink.com/internethelp/eup.html
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[The meter] only considers the total usage (bytes transferred) over a defined period of time independent of protocols, applications, or the content that is generating the excessive usage.
Does CenturyLinks meter start at the first of every month? How do we know when the month starts over? The "defined period" isn't DEFINED! |
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 ·Comcast
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I got a termination notice last month. On the day I was supposed to terminate I switched to comcast. My connection has been rock solid since. I had the 40/5 tier with home phone. I was paying about $85 for the service and never got 40mb. I usually got about 31. Now I have unlimited phone and the blast Internet tier (50/10) and am actually pulling as high as 86mb steady. And, now I only pay $78. And caps have been suspended by comcast. I have to say in my case much better service and the one time I have had to deal with comcast CSR I have gotten what I needed / asked for with zero hassle and I spoke to an American. I think CL is going to loose a lot of business. |
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You're right. I don't know why I had thought Google had a relationship with them. I might have read somewhere that an ex-Google employee was involved in the startup.
Sorry about the misinformation.
BTW, I have no idea how much data I used that got me forced off. CenturyLink doesn't provide a way to view this important piece of information. One thing I find interesting is that CenturyLink's Prism TV service's downloads do not count against the 250GB limit, yet other streaming services, such as Tivo, do. |
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said by Boulder :P.S. I'm using Google's FreedomPop to post this.
I thought that FreedomPop had nothing to do with Google?
»www.crunchbase.com/company/freedompop |
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According to the EUP, they allow you to upgrade to a business plan. However, the one thing I've been noticing in all these "excessive use threads" is the lack of info in regards of how much bandwidth someone used when they started to get notified. Either they didn't ask when they had to call or "forgot" what they were told. I would think this might be important, as there is a difference between recieving a letter if you used (lets say) 260 GB & used 500 GB
said by Technicholas:Its horrible that they are kicking people off their network what about those places where Centurylink is the ONLY provider to get internet services? Like in my situation.
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Its horrible that they are kicking people off their network what about those places where Centurylink is the ONLY provider to get internet services? Like in my situation. |
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My DSL was terminated by CenturyLink (formerly Qwest) last night. This was after two pop-up warnings a few months ago. A letter arrived in the mail ten days ago stating service would end on March 27th.
Interestingly, my online account showed that I was still being charged for the service. It is impossible to cancel DSL online (I love how companies let you sign up online but force you to call to cancel) so I called customer service to cancel. It took the representative about 15 minutes to figure out how do cancel the service.
I'm having Comcast broadband put in on Friday and will then switch my CenturyLink POTS line over to Ooma. I had been paying around $115/month to CenturyLink for POTS plus DSL. I've been a customer of them (well, AT&T, Mountain Bell, US West, Qwest, and so on) for over 35 years. When I've talked to them on the phone they haven't seen the least-bit concerned about losing me as a customer. I would have thought they'd be interested in keeping traditional land-line customers. Not so!
P.S. I'm using Google's FreedomPop to post this. |
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LFHC
join:2012-11-04
Collinsville, VA | reply to Ravynmagi7
Cable is the way to go for heavy users I have comcast and this is what I have used in the past month |
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I'll start by saying I'm 100% guilty of exceeding the usage policy. I've exceeded it quite a bit every month I've been with Centurylink. I'm a heavy user and I was aware this may be a problem, so I did opt for the fastest speed Internet I could to get the largest data cap available for residential service.
Well there you go. The business account/line doesn't have a usage cap. You should have gone with that. They probably won't let you now, but you can always ask them if you can switch. |
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i seeing it certain areas they dont give a dam and other parts they do. |
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said by Ravynmagi7:I'll start by saying I'm 100% guilty of exceeding the usage policy. I've exceeded it quite a bit every month I've been with Centurylink. I'm a heavy user and I was aware this may be a problem, so I did opt for the fastest speed Internet I could to get the largest data cap available for residential service.
Curious:
1) Will they let you set up a business-type account?
2) Related: Surely if you want more data, they should be happy to supply it to you as long as you are willing to pay for it! They are foolish businessmen otherwise.
3) Do you have any alternative for ISP? Otherwise they are cutting you off from the world!
4) After the first warning, maybe have installed Networx?
»www.softperfect.com/products/networx/
5) Even in New Jersey we have heard what a poor company is CenturyLink/CenturyTel/Qwest/Embarq! |
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said by firedrakes:have you posted this on their face book page?? always good to do thAt
LOL.... have you seen their page these days?? They barely can even give you some wishy washy apology. They used to have a great presence up here and then once the Qwest merger happened things went to shit. Why? I have no idea!!! |
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