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Comcast should be sued...again.
undetz:
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nstgc:
I'm having trouble agreeing with you NaRu. I'm pissed off at Comcast as well for over all shitty service, but I don't see how you can hit that cap. I don't think I've seen Netflix ever try to stream something faster than 4mbps. Now lets assume you download an average of 4GB of stuff a day, thats 120GB per month of downloads. That leases 130GB now asuming they are using a powers of ten system we have 130,000,000/250 =520000 seconds. That's more than 6 days worth of streaming videos, or 4.8 hours per day.
kitamesume:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on January 16, 2012, 01:12:24 PM ---LOL
Poor you, if you don't like Comcast, switch. If you have no other option to switch, then don't use 250 GBs of data. If you think 250 GBs is too low of a cap (which, I would like to hear your reasoning), then why/how do you average around 8.3 GBs of data usage a day? I understand that you might download a lot of shows or games or whatever else you might acquire from the internet... but honestly, I find it hard to find enough stuff that I want to go over 100 GBs (let alone live with someone who does the exact same thing as we all do). I see my usage on my router... highest we have ever gone was like 180~ GBs. Close, but no cigar.
So if you don't like Comcasts dealings or how they operate... the internet isn't a right, it's a privilege for those who pay.
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i dunno, i just downloaded 50GB last week and trying to download 75GB within two weeks. already 125GB overall, and since my net is so slow i can't really hit high downloads, my usage on average is 200GB/month, reaching 400GB on vacation/haleluya(omigawd i'm reaching 200+KB/s!) month.
oh and to remind, i'm not the only one using the net, so i guess the whole line is saturated to around 300-600GB a month.
Edit: BBT's download record is kinda meh because it doesn't include freeleech =/
Bob2004:
Yeah, I have to say, I really don't see the problem. 250GB is loads. If they cut you off completely for going over that cap, then that is a bit harsh (throttling you down to like 25% of your normal speed, or charging for bandwidth used over the cap is much more reasonable), but I don't think you realise just how much strain heavy downloading can put on a network, especially an ADSL network (and especially with something like Bittorrent which uses hundreds of connections at once - it's not unheard of for a single bittorrent user with a badly configured client to completely knock out a router by, effectively, bombarding it with a DOS attack when they try to download, though generally the home router or client's NIC would die long before the ISP's does).
Even with a good network, there usually needs to be a cap at some point, because it's just not really feasible for any ISP to build a network capable of supporting lots of users downloading at max speeds at once. They need some way to limit the impact on the network and maintain reasonable speeds for everyone during peak conditions, and a cap is one obvious way to try and curtail excessive downloading, in order to achieve that. 250GB seems pretty reasonable to me, since it's something 95% of customers will never hit.
I used to have Virgin's 20Mb fibre broadband (I'm in the UK), and they had quite a good system for handling it. Rather than a hard cap (I think there was one, but it was ridiculously high, you'd have to try really hard to reach it), they outlined when their peak hours were, and said that if you downloaded more than a certain amount (10 or 15GB, I think it was) during peak hours on any one day, you would automatically be throttled to 25% of your normal speed for a few hours. It worked well, because it didn't stop people from downloading lots of massive files if they wanted to, but it forced heavy downloaders to think a bit and try to do big downloads at times when fewer people were using the network.
NaRu:
--- Quote from: TMRNetShark on January 16, 2012, 01:12:24 PM ---LOL
Poor you, if you don't like Comcast, switch. If you have no other option to switch, then don't use 250 GBs of data. If you think 250 GBs is too low of a cap (which, I would like to hear your reasoning), then why/how do you average around 8.3 GBs of data usage a day? I understand that you might download a lot of shows or games or whatever else you might acquire from the internet... but honestly, I find it hard to find enough stuff that I want to go over 100 GBs (let alone live with someone who does the exact same thing as we all do). I see my usage on my router... highest we have ever gone was like 180~ GBs. Close, but no cigar.
So if you don't like Comcasts dealings or how they operate... the internet isn't a right, it's a privilege for those who pay.
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It's too low because I'm not the only one using the connection. My whole family uses the connection. Each one watches Netflix and Hulu on their TVs in rooms. My sister downloads stuff as well as my parents. I normally go over the 250GB limit. One month I hit over 800GB (thats when I got a threat to be cut off) In my case I have a huge family where each of us uses the internet. If I was the only one using it then it wouldn't be so bad. Comcast needs to understand that when you put in youtube, Netflix, and Hulu into consideration 250GB can be easily reached. If Comcast didn't offer cable TV I bet they wouldn't have a cap. I average around 400GB a month.
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