250GB Bandwidth by Comcast

[undetz]

There are still ISPs that limit bandwidth?

You'd be surprised. AT&T has a 120GB cap.

I upload that in ≈8 hours. Just curious, how much does it cost? It has to be cheap, no?

Congratulations! Now I feel really inferior. What I can upload in a month, you can do in a day!

And I thought I was doing relatively well with a provider that doesn't put a limit (afaik) on transferred data but only on the up and down speeds.


Of course, my dream scenario if for all ISPs to finally ditch this outdated concept of the consuming internet user and introduce affordable plans with identical upload and download speeds.

[dogsinafen]

There are still ISPs that limit bandwidth?

You'd be surprised. AT&T has a 120GB cap.

I upload that in ≈8 hours. Just curious, how much does it cost? It has to be cheap, no?

Congratulations! Now I feel really inferior. What I can upload in a month, you can do in a day!

And I thought I was doing relatively well with a provider that doesn't put a limit (afaik) on transferred data but only on the up and down speeds.


Of course, my dream scenario if for all ISPs to finally ditch this outdated concept of the consuming internet user and introduce affordable plans with identical upload and download speeds.

If you really want to have epic upload speed get a seedbox. I wuv mah SB.

[Pentium100]

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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.

Unlimited is possible. In the sense that you would still be limited by the speed. I once downloaded 500GB in ~ 2 weeks with my 4mbps DSL connection, yes, the connection was saturated for 2 weeks.

Now that I have a better connection, I upload 150-300GB per day and if I wanted I could saturate the connection and the ISP would not say anything about it.

This is because there are a lot of ISPs in my country, so they compete by offering better speeds/lower prices and the only place where you will find a download/upload limit is the cellphone internet connections (UMTS or whatever), I pay 11.29EUR/month for the service (does not include regular monthly fee for calls/SMS) and get 5GB. If I go over that, every 340MB would be another Euro. However, this is not my main connection - I use it on my phone or connect the phone to my laptop when I'm not at home.

[NaRu]

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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.

Unlimited is possible. In the sense that you would still be limited by the speed. I once downloaded 500GB in ~ 2 weeks with my 4mbps DSL connection, yes, the connection was saturated for 2 weeks.

Now that I have a better connection, I upload 150-300GB per day and if I wanted I could saturate the connection and the ISP would not say anything about it.

This is because there are a lot of ISPs in my country, so they compete by offering better speeds/lower prices and the only place where you will find a download/upload limit is the cellphone internet connections (UMTS or whatever), I pay 11.29EUR/month for the service (does not include regular monthly fee for calls/SMS) and get 5GB. If I go over that, every 340MB would be another Euro. However, this is not my main connection - I use it on my phone or connect the phone to my laptop when I'm not at home.

What is your upload speed? To be able to upload 150 to 300GB per day you need a fast upload connection.

[Pentium100]

What is your upload speed? To be able to upload 150 to 300GB per day you need a fast upload connection.

I already bragged about it in the other thread. In short - 200mbps up/down to Lithuania, 80mbps up/down to everywhere else.

[mgz]

I use brighthouse (Re-Seller of roadrunner & Cable company here) Since they service our TV & Phone I think the internet was added on for $25 more a month for a 11Mb line, though they gave us some really chunky AMBIT modem/router which kills the speeds because speedtest only does around 9.80. My grandparents have comcast, and they said theyve had alot of issues *theyre in miami* like connection drop-outs. They also have phone & tv service through comcast, and last time i was there the connection actually died for 3 days after a light storm.

but florida sucks,

on a seperate note how nice to bring up the 250 gig limit i think there was a bunch of posts on this like a year or 2 ago when it was first put in place. I can burn through 1500gb in like a week so im glad im rocking my 25/25 fios line (runs more like 30/25)

[Xiong Chiamiov]

Charter claims they have a limit.  While I don't monitor my traffic, I'm fairly certain I'm well above it, and haven't gotten any trouble.

I'm against any limits. Only reason there are limits is because ISP are greedy.

I dislike most ISPs as much as anyone, but they don't have unlimited infrastructure.  Cable companies have been getting hit hard as people stop using cable tv and landlines (for those who do phone as well).

[Pentium100]

I dislike most ISPs as much as anyone, but they don't have unlimited infrastructure.  Cable companies have been getting hit hard as people stop using cable tv and landlines (for those who do phone as well).

The money that their customers pay should go to expanding the infrastructure (well, at least part of the money), just to the pockets of various CxOs.

I pay ~29EUR/month for my 200/200/80/80 line, and I am sure that my ISP actually tries to expand their infrastructure because if they won't, then another ISP will offer a faster connection or a lower price. They are rolling out fiber (to homes) quite fast now. Of course it sucks for the people who still have to use DSL, but the highest plan will max out their connection capability (DSL, unlike fiber, is quite limited).

Now, it is written in my contract that the line (international traffic) is oversubscribed 1:30, but in practice I have never experienced such a slowdown, especially when I had the DSL connection, now I am not sure, since I do not keep my connection saturated all the time the way I did my DSL upload.

[undetz]

Charter claims they have a limit.  While I don't monitor my traffic, I'm fairly certain I'm well above it, and haven't gotten any trouble.

I'm against any limits. Only reason there are limits is because ISP are greedy.

I dislike most ISPs as much as anyone, but they don't have unlimited infrastructure.  Cable companies have been getting hit hard as people stop using cable tv and landlines (for those who do phone as well).

You jest. The only real bottleneck for internet speed is the last few meters, between the curb and your home if you will. The big tubes of the internet aren't getting clogged in the least.

[dogsinafen]

Charter claims they have a limit.  While I don't monitor my traffic, I'm fairly certain I'm well above it, and haven't gotten any trouble.

I'm against any limits. Only reason there are limits is because ISP are greedy.

I dislike most ISPs as much as anyone, but they don't have unlimited infrastructure.  Cable companies have been getting hit hard as people stop using cable tv and landlines (for those who do phone as well).

You jest. The only real bottleneck for internet speed is the last few meters, between the curb and your home if you will. The big tubes of the internet aren't getting clogged in the least.

Tis true.
The back bone of my province and indeed country is pure fibre. And there are plenty of blacklines (fibre lines or others that are up but no traffic is being transmitted with them), the backbone of the country has fibre lines that reach 1TB/s and I'm sure the province is similar.

[Xiong Chiamiov]

I'm against any limits. Only reason there are limits is because ISP are greedy.

I dislike most ISPs as much as anyone, but they don't have unlimited infrastructure.  Cable companies have been getting hit hard as people stop using cable tv and landlines (for those who do phone as well).

You jest. The only real bottleneck for internet speed is the last few meters, between the curb and your home if you will. The big tubes of the internet aren't getting clogged in the least.

It's more than a few meters (feet!), as (to my rather limited understanding) cable lines are shared among all users in the neighborhood.  That's why I and many others in apartment complexes have had many issues with Charter, while those in houses have had perfectly fine service from them.

I had spotty connection for about 4 months, before Charter upgraded some somethingortheother on our street.  After they got finished tearing up the pavement and doing their nonsense, my internet worked consistently again, and they bumped all of us up a tier for free.

[harpy]

We do not have any limitations here, well as far as I know. There was something like that a while back, but not now. I use the same companie that used to have limitations before, but now they upgraded to optic stuff and I get my phone, TV and internet from them.
It is a bit annoying when internet is down and I can not call them to complain about it, but they usually fix it really fast anyhow. And lightning storms are really annoying. 

[Meomix]

NTT Networks > > > Comcast.

That is all.

[Klocknov]

I hate Comcast internet, Cap and shitty service. Though I will say thanks to the latter I have got plenty of bills either discounted or completely comped. Now yes I use it, but I get DSL that has 1/5 of the speed and is just about as bad or with shittier customer service or I stay with cable, not a tough choice... I can't wait till they get FIOS down here, I will have to try and get flipped over. (takes convincing of a couple other people)

To tell the truth though if the cap was 1tb I could care less hell even 500gb is almost bearable if they had more stable net. Now with the money payed to them for this net phone I would hope they are upgrading their lines some people all they have is that phone and haven't caught up to having a cell.

[BrownMasterV]

I've been using Comcast for 3 years now and I've never heard anything about a cap, and the speed is great. I've got no complaints.

[Klocknov]

I've been using Comcast for 3 years now and I've never heard anything about a cap, and the speed is great. I've got no complaints.

You must live in a good area for Comcast...

[BrownMasterV]

I've been using Comcast for 3 years now and I've never heard anything about a cap, and the speed is great. I've got no complaints.

You must live in a good area for Comcast...

CALIFO-MYAH-MYAH...supercool to the homeless

[NaRu]

I've been using Comcast for 3 years now and I've never heard anything about a cap, and the speed is great. I've got no complaints.

You must live in a good area for Comcast...

The speed for comcast is great. I have never had a problem with comcast with speed or staying connected. The last time I rebooted my modem was about a year ago.

[Astara]

I live in California and have Comcast, and I unimpressed, but they have no competition, so they don't need to improve.
My max sustained download, now,  is about 2.2-2.4MB(ytes) and and 240-250KB up.  When I got the service 6 months ago it was closer to 2.6-2.8MB and 275KB up, but somewhere around beginning of summer, speeds dropped.   

I've called them on the problem, but their response is 'well, we can ping you, so no problem'.  Their way of measuring bandwidth problems is by having someone come out with a *signal strength* meter to check their signal -- if they find no problems, then they charge you a $100 house call.   

The problem is worse during the day, with the worst time being from late afternoon till late evening -- typical of being on an oversubscribed cable loop.  They *claim*, I'm not -- and that the business class lines are separate from residential, but I can't see them laying out separate loops for business and residential just to provide separation for 'business' customers who are in a residential area.  Even if I could prove a problem, their 'minimum' guaranteed speed of 2.5Mb suddenly becomes "within 10-17%" (basically anything over 2Mb, and they won't consider it a problem). 

Of course I'm welcome to find service if I don't like what they offer me. 

DSL in my area gives  sells a line rated at 3Mb(its)/768kb, which yields about 315-325KB down 62.5KB up.


To add insult to injury:   If I use a speed test like DSL reports, because of Comcast's has tuned their burst cutoff to be just slightly above the speed-test's length, it will show 4MB down and 220KB up.  The upload is slower than my normal measured, since it's right after the cutoff kicks in due to the download.

Comcast has yet to upgrade Santa Cruz to their 2nd generation.  I believe 'etheric.net' has faster, but they are out of my price range, with 3Mb up&down @ $400/month (but no cap!...such a deal!)   :'(

[vuzedome]

$100 for a house call?
That's ridiculous, my ISP won't charge anything for something like that.

Damn.... $400 for 3M? With or without caps, that's too much.