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Robb
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Hillsboro, OR
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| reply to dadkins
Re: I still don't agree that knowledge = Greater use
Then there are the Power users that are aware that they are pushing the unknown "limits" with their monthly totals.
These are the ones that will likely see a stated cap and run right up to that limit EVERY month - "Because I pay for it". Does anyone here have a cell phone that comes with a certain amount of "free minutes" every month?
Do you use them?
It's the same thing. Nobody talks for the sake of talking, but some certainly talk more than others. Exposing the limit is not going to drive people to use it more. But it will tell the ones that are ALREADY using it heavily that they have to use it less.
Ah, but then again, there's that competition problem again.
As soon as Comcast is "limited," then DSL/FIOS have a field day. Just like Satellite had a field day with Comcast CATV over "Digital Cable."
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dadkins
Merry Whatever
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join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA
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| Joe Comcast user... scared of hitting cap and getting "The Letter", so he is staying just under 75GB per month.
Comcast imposes a 150GB cap.
Joe user ramps up usage because he is "Paying for it and wants to get all of what he is paying for".
Me, caps or not, I have yet to hit 32GB in a month.
Cap it at anything 32GB or higher and *I* won't really care - unless I get the urge to download 50 movies some month.
Those "I pay for it, I'll max it!" types are out there.
Comcast(YOU KNOW!) will lowball it and we all will see a thousand *more* "Comcast is teh suck" posts here alone... 
Best to leave it in the Inviso Cap realm.
You may be in a 200GB market, I may be in a 75GB market.
To be fair(LOL!) Comcast will say your area is now 75GB just like mine.
Awesome, huh?
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
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·AT&T Southwest
| said by dadkins  :Joe Comcast user... scared of hitting cap and getting "The Letter", so he is staying just under 75GB per month. Joe Comcast user is clueless the cap exists, and therefore isn't cutting back anything from fear that they do not have. 99.9% Of Joe Comcast users don't surf BroadbandReports (or at least not regularly) and are blissfully oblivious... and therefore even if someone came and told them straight out "You Cap is 200GB a month" it wouldn't mean squat to them because they aren't hitting it.
Maybe in the future as more and more services start to piggyback on Broadband this might become an issue, but then when Joe Comcast starts hitting caps instead of just "Heavy downloaders" well Comcast is going to be taking flak anyway.
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KrK
Heavy Artillery For The Little Guy
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Tulsa, OK
·Cox HSI
·AT&T Southwest
| reply to dadkins
said by dadkins :You may be in a 200GB market, I may be in a 75GB market. To be fair(LOL!) Comcast will say your area is now 75GB just like mine. IMHO this is the best (and only real) reason to fear a policy of declaring Caps.
That the CableCo may decide it's easier to declare "One size fits all" and then look at their most oversold nodes and make the Cap down to that level.
This, I agree, is a possibility. However the solution would be for the users to push back and Comcast to start losing customers over the low caps. End result: Comcast has to upgrade capacity to raise caps and retain customers. That's the solution.
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