[quote]
Starting November 1st, Comcast will start capping the following areas.
Alabama (Dothan)
California
Colorado
Florida (North Florida, Southwest Florida and West Palm)
Southeastern Georgia
Idaho
Indiana (Indianapolis and Central Indiana; Fort Wayne and Eastern Indiana)
Kansas
Michigan (Grand Rapids/Lansing, Detroit and Eastern Michigan)
Minnesota
Missouri
New Mexico
Western Ohio
Oregon
Texas (Houston)
Utah
Washington
Wisconsin
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[URL="https://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/data-usage-find-area"]Full list available here[/URL]
There will be a charge for going over this limit, or you can pay an extra $50 a month to remove the limit.
[URL="https://consumercomplaints.fcc.gov/hc/en-us"]File a complaint with the FCC here.[/URL] Be sure to mention this being anti competitive to streaming companies, and that if you used the full speed of your paid-for service 24/7 you'd hit the cap in only a few days.
It's like ISPs in US are actively trying to go for the most evil companies of this decade.
Oh fuck off. I wish someone would come in and sell Internet for drastically lower prices, forcing their stupid asses to actually treat their customers right.
Fuck you Cuntcast
[QUOTE=kariko;51164742]Oh fuck off. I wish someone would come in and sell Internet for drastically lower prices, forcing their stupid asses to actually treat their customers right.[/QUOTE]
google fiber is comin to jax
cant wait, esp since there will be more room to build when matthew wipes out the entire city
1TB?
It's not unlimited. Not good enough.
[url]https://www.engadget.com/2016/10/06/comcasts-1tb-data-caps-start-to-roll-out-nationwide/[/url]
[quote]For its part, [url=http://corporate.comcast.com/comcast-voices/you-can-do-a-lot-with-1-terabyte-of-data]the ISP claims 99 percent of customers use less than 1TB of data per month, and that median use is just 75GB.[/url][/quote]
this has to be a joke.
fixed the statement, it said 75mb instead of 75gb based on [url=https://customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/data-usage-average-network-usage?MAR=HOME_AX06.16]this[/url] page
[QUOTE=Wii60;51164771]google fiber is comin to jax
cant wait, esp since there will be more room to build when matthew wipes out the entire city[/QUOTE]
I really wish they'd come here. It's both amazing and sad from the posts on reddit saying that once fiber came along, Comcast's plans suddenly got bumped up to much faster speeds for the same price. That should be proof enough that they're just putting prices however they please. It's awful.
And right now our service is down until 6AM. So that sucks.
Doesn't fiber have some of the best phone service out there?
US ISPs are a fucking joke, seriously. :v:
Here in Miami it's been 300GB which has been stupid. Is that not changing??
EDIT: Looks like we've been included since June. 1 TB is waaaay better, but it should be unlimited.
looks like I'm gonna have to look into getting a business plan again, I work from home and routinely send huge amounds of data back and forth to clients and backup services. They just called yesterday trying to sweeten my deal for 5 bucks/month, going from 80 bucks>75mbps to 85 bucks>150mbps. (it hops to 110/mo or something after 12 months). Given the stupid issues I've had with speed at the moment I'm going to humor the service for the 'money back guaranteed' first month and spend the two hours wrestling with phone support to undo it if it's still trashy
This is probably a very unpopular opinion but the concept of 'Unlimited Data' plans is the route course of of a lot of congestion, I can't comment on how well Comcast provisions their network but not a single backhaul provider will sell asynchronous bandwith, you must purchase both upstream and downstream capacity in equal portions, this is due to network protocols in this day and age being incapable of managing asynchronous without stressing a routers processor.
The problem the most of the worlds residential service providers will experience is the concept of 'peak' services, everyone wants to jump on and smash the guts out of their connections during peak times because they're paying for a service and wish to use it whenever they want when in reality, signing up to the big boys will get your consumer rights waived, particularly in the form of CSGs (customer service guarantees) meaning that you can't even process a complaint for a breach of contract terms the best you will ever get is maybe a months credit and the freedom to leave your contract.
The cost of backhaul between major sites is not equal so it seems pretty obvious that Comcast has either under provisioned, can't provision further or there isn't enough revenue being generated to justify improving the network. Allowing unlimited plans and the expectation to experience full theoretical peak speeds is a joke, all residential services are supplied of a many to one contention ratio and unless you are being provided a 1:1 service with a service level agreement, good luck, you are literally at the mercy of any other person who decides to smash the guts out of the shared bandwidth across a particular POI or backhaul.
Why would anyone want to share a network with anyone else who can literally take an unequal portion of the capacity for use all the time and slow everything down for everyone else? 'Unlimited' is just a marketing gimmick for you to pay more and effectively get less because you can't even use 'unlimited' data due to contention / congestion. Hell, your 'unlimited' plans probably have a fair use waiver capping you at 1TB anyway.
Find yourselves a quality ISP that provides a quality service, educate yourselves about network logistics so you can make better informed decisions about where you can get the most value for money, I highly doubt Comcast is the only option.
[QUOTE=dark_console2;51164896]This is probably a very unpopular opinion but the concept of 'Unlimited Data' plans is the route course of of a lot of congestion, I can't comment on how well Comcast provisions their network but not a single backhaul provider will sell asynchronous bandwith, you must purchase both upstream and downstream capacity in equal portions, this is due to network protocols in this day and age being incapable of managing asynchronous without stressing a routers processor.[/QUOTE]
If people want to see how Unlimited data works out for the average user, go to a populated area mid-day and do a speedtest on T-Mobile.
Goodbye free unlimited data, it was fun while it lasted
The email I just got today
[quote]We’re writing to let you know that we will be activating a new XFINITY Internet Data Usage Plan in your area. Effective [B]November 1, 2016[/B], your XFINITY Internet service will include one terabyte (that’s 1,024 GB) of data usage per month. With a terabyte of data you can stream between 600 and 700 hours of HD video, play more than 12,000 hours of online games, or download 60,000 high-res photos in a month.
[B][B]For the past three months, your average data usage was only
754 GB. Based on your usage history, you can still stream, surf, game, download and do whatever you want to do online, worry free.[/B] [/B][/quote]
God forbird when 4k streaming becomes more mainstream
This is also the network that just doubled its bandwidth in the last year for everyone in MN because they felt like it, I doubt they're having bottlenecks with so many users downloading torrents or streaming.
what the literal fuck why shit on houstonians exclusively and leave dallas/san antonio out of the cap especially when the dallas metro is bigger than the houston metro. looks like it's time to switch to tachus and git dat sweet gigabit speed.
1TB is just pathetic. Thats less than 1Mbps 95% of the time in your billing period. Still decades further than AT&Ts 200Gbyte cap. lol.
Why would you cap home internet, I can barely get why you would cap mobile internet let alone home internet.
Seriously it should be banned to cap home internet.
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;51164923]1TB is just pathetic. Thats less than 1Mbps 95% of the time in your billing period. Still decades further than AT&Ts 200Gbyte cap. lol.[/QUOTE]
Yeah, I mean it depends on what people are paying, but 10-14 TiB seems much more fair.
at least it's not 250 gb
no ISP would be crazy enough to set that as a data cap in 2016
haha
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
especially after promising you'd be grandfathered in as unlimited!
hahahaha!
[QUOTE=glitchvid;51164931]Yeah, I mean it depends on what people are paying, but 10-14 TiB seems much more fair.[/QUOTE]
10-14T would be too generious for them. They almost depend on these overages for people who stream their content. I would suspect this is some sort of play for them to get on their shitty cable hookup, which they so convinently have bundles for lol.
Their likely excuse is going to be "Our network is all congested ): Its just too expensive to upgrade it."
[QUOTE=Richard Simmons;51164953]Their likely excuse is going to be "Our network is all congested ): Its just too expensive to upgrade it."[/QUOTE]
Our network is so congested, pay us more! [URL="http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/observations-internet-middleman/"]Oh and transfer partners, we're gonna charge you more too! Yes, to deliver content into our network![/URL]
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
Reminder: 1Gibit/s port through Comcast is around $5,000/Month.
[QUOTE=glitchvid;51164968]Our network is so congested, pay us more! [URL="http://blog.level3.com/open-internet/observations-internet-middleman/"]Oh and transfer partners, we're gonna charge you more too! Yes, to deliver content into our network![/URL]
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
Reminder: 1Gibit/s port through Comcast is around $5,000/Month.[/QUOTE]
Unmetered though, thats a fair amount of data right there.
I live in Sweden and has an american owned ISP (only one I can have). I got a 30 GB limit and can only get 0.2-1 MB/s. Just browsing and watching Youtube uses all that shit, how am I supposed to stream Netflix or download the games I bought?
[QUOTE=kariko;51164823]I really wish they'd come here. It's both amazing and sad from the posts on reddit saying that once fiber came along, Comcast's plans suddenly got bumped up to much faster speeds for the same price. That should be proof enough that they're just putting prices however they please. It's awful.
And right now our service is down until 6AM. So that sucks.[/QUOTE]
Most major ISP's already have the network infrastructure installed in major cities to facilitate gigabit speeds, but theres no reason to implement them since they can make millions off people when it only costs them pennies a month for their service.
The amount of money ISP's make off their customers is criminal, especially when they could be providing a better service.
It's like you said, suddenly google fiber comes along and offers gigabit speeds and then all the ISP's in the area [i]suddenly[/i] have the infrastructure to facilitate gigabit speeds and then give everyone free upgrades. This happened in Austin Texas when Google came in; Time Warner gave all their customers free upgrades to try and keep them on the service, a lot of people going from like 50 mbt speeds to 500 mbt speeds. It's fucking criminal.
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
[QUOTE=Clovis;51165104]considering the average data cap here is like 100gb i ask all you people
do you all really NEED anything more than 1tb a month? i find it impossible to reach even 250gb a month deliberately downloading large amounts of files. i really dont think this is a big deal at all. if the cap was much smaller than 1tb maybe but come on thats 250gb a week. thats shitloads[/QUOTE]
Let me ask you this. If you had the choice between a data cap, or no data cap, which would you choose?
Furthermore, Data caps haven't really been a thing in the US. US ISP's have been able to keep their heads well above water for years now; adding data caps is a bullshit move to squeeze more money out of their high traffic customers.
[editline]7th October 2016[/editline]
Thank god I have Midco; they're the only competitor in pretty much all of ND and they just finished their fiber network and are going to start selling gigabit plans in December.
[QUOTE=Clovis;51165104]considering the average data cap here is like 100gb i ask all you people
do you all really NEED anything more than 1tb a month? i find it impossible to reach even 250gb a month deliberately downloading large amounts of files. i really dont think this is a big deal at all. if the cap was much smaller than 1tb maybe but come on thats 250gb a week. thats shitloads[/QUOTE]
Not really. I get 6mbps on a good day, usually 4-5 and I still manage 400 a month. If you happen to not live in a technology shithole then having 50mbps+ for cheap is not unusual, where you can hit a terabyte in [I]2 days[/I]. I have 70 gb of shit queued up to download and there's stuff I'd download if it was physically possible to do so on this pathetic excuse for broadband. That 400 is even with nothing downloading for most of the day due to sleep and not making it slow as fuck for others.
[t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20161007103655220.png[/t]
Already submitted a complaint, I might post updates if the FCC responds.
This all comes down to greed, companies here don't have datacaps in home internet and they still turn in a massive profit.
[QUOTE=Wii60;51164771]google fiber is comin to jax
cant wait, esp since there will be more room to build when matthew wipes out the entire city[/QUOTE]
It sucks that it is such a slow process for Google. I haven't heard of it in quite a while
[QUOTE=Clovis;51165104]considering the average data cap here is like 100gb i ask all you people
do you all really NEED anything more than 1tb a month? i find it impossible to reach even 250gb a month deliberately downloading large amounts of files. i really dont think this is a big deal at all. if the cap was much smaller than 1tb maybe but come on thats 250gb a week. thats shitloads[/QUOTE]
3 gaming computers in this house that stream, download, torrent, upload whatever and we managed to break the 550GB barrier a few months ago.
Seems impossible unless you try but here we still have unlimited anyway.
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