Shed a Tear: The Age of Broadband Caps Begins Monday - Polidicks

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;29525180]I live in Vancouver and am on Shaw and have no cap whatsoever. 15mbs up 2mbs down.[/QUOTE] Wana trade?

[QUOTE=certified;29523737][img_thumb]http://www.austincreditgroup.com/images/ClearLogo.jpg[/img_thumb] Problem solved.[/QUOTE] $75 for 1 MB internet

I am on Qwest with 11 Mb/s and I believe we've had a cap of 250GB since 2008. I never really even got close to that amount (My Laptop's hard drive had only like 105 GB left.) It just kind of sucks knowing I am limited to not able to download 1 TB of stuff in one sitting.

I feel bad for you guys. Here in Sweden, I have 100/10, no cap.

FiOS better not cap their broadband. The speed is amazing, but there are several things I already don't like about their service and routers (it's probably the local franchise company's fault). Hopefully Verizon won't try to pull this crap.

[QUOTE=DogGunn;29523518]it's funny. aussies used to be so jealous of the plans you could get in america. decent speeds and no cap (or at least more than 10GB/m) at a decent price. now in aussieland we pay $29.99/m (US$33/m) and we get unlimited internet and a 24Mb/s connection. how times have changed[/QUOTE] Who are you with?

Thank God I live in eastern Europe

chances are you won't hit that cap unless as the article says, you are streaming tons of movies

I CAN theoretically get 100MB/s (yes, MB/s, not Mb/s), but it doesn't quite work that way in practice because everyone on the same street as me is connected to the same fibre, so it's always a lot lower than the theoretical maximum. I'm with internode, too. Again, still only 60GB, though.

I've always had a 200GB cap. I've never even come close. [editline]30th April 2011[/editline] Also Comcast is my only real option, seeing as I live in Philadelphia.

I'm capped on a fair use policy at ~40GB/m. And they cap my p2p so I have to ssh to my vps to use it as a socks5 proxy. You americans are lucky.

It's firebomin' time!

Hopefully the other providers will start waving around the fact that they have no data caps like Game developers wave around the fact that they have dedicated servers now.

I'm on a 15 GB Data Cap. If we exceed the 15 GB cap (which I did after downloading Portal 2, all its updates and then Audiosurf), the speed automatically throttles to 0.3 MBps. You guys should consider yourself lucky having such a huge data cap.

[QUOTE=Dongotti;29527069]I'm on a 15 GB Data Cap. If we exceed the 15 GB cap (which I did after downloading Portal 2, all its updates and then Audiosurf), the speed automatically throttles to 0.3 MBps. You guys should consider yourself lucky having such a huge data cap.[/QUOTE] We don't even have a cap here in Slovenia :smug:

[QUOTE=ZestyLemons;29523123]125GB cap here, Vancouver. To be honest, it's hard for me to hit that unless I really want to download Portal 2 12 times over.[/QUOTE] Exactly, 125gb is fine, unelss you have a big family. Its just me and my dad and I only hit 50% usage for this month on 125gb 2 days ago.

You guys are unlucky. I got 100/10 unlimited for 36 dollars a month.

I feel bad for you guys. My ISP is great tho.

Italy, our whole country is covered by ADSL, it is pretty shitty (saturated lines) but atleast we are uncapped.

at least Comcasts cap limit doesn't work/isn't enforced. [img]http://atomic-tonic.com/pics/Win.png[/img] oh and [img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1275214045.png[/img] On wireless G, Wired PC is at 30Mbps most of the time.

Time Warner might suck ass, but they'd get ripped a new asshole if they tried this shit.

TBH caps are okay as long as they relegate you into a "low priority" mode, but throttling your speed that much and making you pay for it is bullshit

1. Open a new isp 2. Have no caps 3. Profit Because we don't need ???

We're having the same problem here in Canada. The telecoms are trying to sneak bandwidth caps in and it is NOT being recieved well. The problem is simple: many of these internet companies are also invested in cable/satellite tv, and the internet is becoming competition for these industries. Rather than adapt to the times (like say, selling IPTV connections), these companies will instead just drop a cap on everyone and force them to buy TV too. Fuck that. There is a Canadian group over 500k strong (in a country under 40mil people, that's pretty good) fighting this: OpenMedia.ca. I suggest you Americans contact them and see if they know of an American group fighting the battle in your country.

[QUOTE=counterpo0;29523480]Thank god i have time warner, although my family wants to switch over to something else, how is Fios?[/QUOTE] FiOS is the best.

Being blessed with no data cap, be assured that my thoughts are with you. Fight on, brave soldiers!

thank god I'm safe in France for the moment

[URL=http://www.speedtest.net][IMG]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1275279323.png[/IMG][/URL] And I've had a 100GB limit for years. This is the "Unlimited" package too. You guys have it easy.

Time to create a meshnet.

[QUOTE=TrouserDemon;29527994][URL=http://www.speedtest.net][img_thumb]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1275279323.png[/img_thumb][/URL] And I've had a 100GB limit for years. This is the "Unlimited" package too. You guys have it easy.[/QUOTE] If you're the only one who uses internet in your house, 100gb is not too bad. If you have to share it with 2-3 other people, it gets eaten damn fast.