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250GB Bandwidth by Comcast
dogsinafen:
My ISP Rogers has a 60GB cap... Man they are fags.
Before I moved to where I am now I had a cap of 90GB. Since the first month I've passed my cap, the best I've done was a couple of months of being 1TB over the cap. They never called me... they liked my money to much.
vortex69:
My connection (30Mbps down, 1Mbps up) used to have a limit of 40Gbytes/month (mixed up and down).
Fortunately they had "Happy Hours", from 1 to 9 (AM) traffic wasn't counted, which was great, since theoretically - with 30Mbps - you could use ~3Tb in one month, I know I always used around 200-300Gbytes/month.
Then came the "unlimited" and sooner or later people found out that "unlimited" meant 250Gbytes/month, you exceed that and they will:
* Send you a registered letter that tells you to stop using so much traffic or they "might" cut your connection if they think you're abusing.
* Phone you once in a while, saying the same as the letter.
Now, I personally would have nothing against it, if they defined what is an "abusive" amount of traffic. The problem is that they don't define it, refuse to define it and yet expect people to follow the rules. People only know the "unlimited" is 250Gbytes/month because lots of people (mostly P2P users) started receiving the letters/calls when they hit the 250Gbytes.
I understand unlimited is impossible, I even think that every ISP should have a traffic limit, that way at least people would know what to expect. But then I'm against any limit under 500 Gbytes for connections over 10Mbps. That and up speed should be at least 1/10th of the down speed, eg. 30 down/1 up is simply ridiculous.
NaRu:
I have the 50Mbps down 15Mbps up business class connection from comcast. It only cost me $70 a month because I know people within the company. It would cost a normal person $180 a month for the same speed.
relic2279:
Not sure I could handle a cap after having time warner.
$64 a month, no caps. And me and my roommate download a shitload of crap.
Only drawback is upload speed. But I still manage to hold above a 1.0+ ratio here, and other places
dogsinafen:
--- Quote from: vortex69 on August 10, 2010, 06:09:53 PM ---
I understand unlimited is impossible, I even think that every ISP should have a traffic limit, that way at least people would know what to expect. But then I'm against any limit under 500 Gbytes for connections over 10Mbps. That and up speed should be at least 1/10th of the down speed, eg. 30 down/1 up is simply ridiculous.
--- End quote ---
I'm against any limits. Only reason there are limits is because ISP are greedy.
My ISP charges up to 50$ extra is you pass the cap. Since I've been with them I've always payed the 50$ because I've always passed their shitty cap.
Even worst is that they lowered their caps because nettflix or w/e it's called is opening a site for my country. Now if that does not scream abuse/greed not sure what does.
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