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atom0s · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:42 am Post subject:

Comcast started capping their bandwidth back in 2008 to 250gigs per line. Personally I don't see a problem with it for an average house hold. I've never come close to hitting the limit with 3 people constantly using the line. Granted I (and the rest of the users) don't stream movies every day or at all since we don't use Netflix (or other streaming services) but overall usage has yet to come close to the cap.

The only people I see having any issue with this are those whom are either:
A. Constantly pirating / torrenting.
B. Constantly streaming movies / games from stream services.

Given that AT&T is capping at half of Comcasts, I could see the caps being hit faster with B. I can see a lot of people leaving AT&T because of not being able to do family activities such as movies too if they frequently watch them. It's something AT&T will have to learn first hand if they want to stay competitive. But the average house hold user wont have a clue what 'gig' means or even read the TOS to know they are capped so they wont even know.

AhMunRa · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:38 am Post subject:

@Geri, I chalk it up to American greed (read capitalism).

It's actually got alot to do with our infrastructure. Roads here are terrible, public utilities are about the same. All of our infrastructure is falling apart, and due to so many regulations, no one can just upgrade things, so we bandaid it to keep it running.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

atom0s · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 7:09 pm Post subject:

@Geri: Yea using streaming services all day can land up hitting the caps. Which most ISPs are going to have to start understanding is becoming the new media style rather then TV. The internet is slowly replacing almost every type of media and more and more people are starting to use it.

If streaming continues to get popular I can see either that ISPs will start whitelisting certain data from specific hosts (like Netflix and so on) to not count towards your monthly limits or the caps will get raised higher.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

Yeah it would not be a concern if you could count on the companies to raise the caps but they are always resisting until they can. Of course they don't want to give more than what is absolutely neccessary. If they would double them in every year or so, it wouldn't be a problem, but (at least here) this is not usual. Once the cap is set, it will remain that way for years, that's why I never use capped provider, even if they promise cheaper prices and even if their current cap would be enough for the family.

AhMunRa · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 8:44 pm Post subject:

@Geri, keep in mind you are talking about a city that when the iPhone came out AT&T cell network in that city couldn't handle the network load.

Old article here, but still they knew this was coming out.

http://consumerist.com/2009/12/att-customer-service-new-york-city-is-not-ready-for-the-iphone.html

My wife is a member of some Korean web site that offers Korean tv as a stream service, with my gaming, and I used to run a streaming audio server, and my torrenting I'd hit that cap in no time.

Hell if my computer died today, and I reinstalled all my steam content from online, I'd hit the cap.

Geri · Moderator Reputation: 111 Joined: 05 Feb 2010 Posts: 5636

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:22 pm Post subject:

At the rate I'm going I would have hit the Comcast cap in 2 days just from uploading alone.

atom0s · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2011 10:32 pm Post subject:

hcavolsdsadgadsg · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:23 am Post subject:

Linux iso's, definitely linux iso's

zirak · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 12:53 am Post subject:

I envy US citizens, here in Canada internet services, and even cellphone services are overpriced.

To get full 15mbps speed you're looking at $50~70 dollars
And on average you get around 60-95gb of bandwidth.

At the moment I have 10mbps down and 1mbps up with a 95gb cap per month, and I pay $59.99

Each gig extra over usage costs us $1.25

And we ALWAYS end up exceeding our bandwidth, our highest bill so far went over to $200 for just internet usage.

407 · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 2:12 pm Post subject:

I have AT&T.. But some google searches are saying something about it happening in Reno?

Iono, but if it does I guess I'll start monitoring my usage.. and if I constantly exceed then I'll probably leave..

Shouldn't be much of a problem though, cuz I don't think I'll hit that cap

elpacco · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:51 pm Post subject: