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

I've gone over it a few times. When that happens they throttle me to 0.5MB/s for the next month.

Oh wow. I'm on Optus (Australian ISP) with a 500GB cap; I never thought I'd see the day when our internet was better than American internet regarding bandwidth caps! (On that note, I managed to download 499.78 GB over April. It's May for me. I barely got by uncapped!)

I pay £20 a month for up to 8mbps (mine can only go to 2mbps on a good day). 30GB on peak usage limit and 300GB off peak (after midnight till 8am and all weekend). Pretty good for what speed I use but I get increasingly near the limit now that I listen to all my music on Spotify Premium. If it was faster I'd probably hit it a lot quicker. I feel better knowing what my limit is every month, instead of the unlimited but will cap you if you go on Youtube for 5 minute bullshit.

I remember when my ISP proposed this idea. Their phone support lines were red hot from angry customers, and even the grey haired geezer politicians said it was fucking retarded.

I can't imagine having a cap, I have video streams + Internet radio open for 20 hours each day, not to mention downloading files/playing games/reading forums. Any kind of cap short of a TB or 2/month would be insane for me.

Pro tip, most all have this already, usually after 250GB/mo they throttle you considerably

Thank god for Cox Cable!

[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] Why don't you switch over to BE? It uses BT's lines and it's unlimited.

[QUOTE=JohnEdwards;29528595]Pro tip, most all have this already, usually after 250GB/mo they throttle you considerably[/QUOTE] Throttling is illegal here :smug:

That's a brutal cap. I just checked our router and here at my house we've used a little over 100gb's of bandwidth, and we're on a measly 1.5mbit connection. My friend's parents have AT&T with 8mbit connection, and they've almost hit the limit just by using netflix and watching videos online. And that's without him being there. He'll be staying there for the summer, so he's obviously less than pleased. As am I, since I go over there a lot.

I love you time warner. I'll never hurt you again.

I have U-Verse but this is just dumb. Not because they did it, it's actually understandable to charge the cost of the service you're using but here is my real dilemma: Unlimited isn't even unlimited. If you have a 250 GB cap you can go about it two ways, you can either: A) Formulate an unlimited plan under which it is impossible to use 250GB in any given month by capping speed. Under that system it is mathematically impossible to overuse my service. This is the method i prefer. B) Formulate a stupid ass fucked up system under which you have the fastest possible speed but mathematically you can use up your service before the month is over. This is silly. Luckily U-Verse has always used "A" and i don't see a problem with it since that's about the speed i get now anyway. To all the people who want to make it law to be able to use as much as you want for a consistent amount of money, piss off. Just allow them to formulate a logical business plan and honestly present it. "Unlimited" plans are fine and easily possible, government need not be involved and they wouldn't lose anything because of it. Government forcing companies to allow people to use 7000GB a month for 20 dollars is hardly fair to everyone else under that system. TL;DR cap speed not bandwidth.

My dad's house uses Clear I think, so I'm good there. My mom's house uses AT&T. Fuck.

[QUOTE=Cosmicmeet;29529158]My dad's house uses Clear I think, so I'm good there. My mom's house uses AT&T. Fuck.[/QUOTE] Which service do you use, what speed do you get maximum?

[QUOTE=s0beit;29529184]Which service do you use, what speed do you get maximum?[/QUOTE] I'm not sure at my dad's, but at my mom's I think we have U-Verse. And when I tried to do a speed test at my dads, it said that I was in Nashville, TN. I live in St. Louis, MO. :wtc:

Well im switching plans and if you care about the internet so will you.

How the hell do you have so backwards ISPs? Here I don't even know any ISP that has a bandwith limit, you just pay for different speeds. With technological advancment you'd think the bandwith limits would get removed.

[QUOTE=Intoxicated Spy;29527219]at least Comcasts cap limit doesn't work/isn't enforced. [img_thumb]http://atomic-tonic.com/pics/Win.png[/img_thumb] oh and [img_thumb]http://www.speedtest.net/result/1275214045.png[/img_thumb] On wireless G, Wired PC is at 30Mbps most of the time.[/QUOTE] ISPs divide their service areas up into smaller regions, when an individual region goes over they look more closely at each customer's usage and bitch to them accordingly. It isn't that they aren't enforced, it's that your neighbours don't use very much so Comcast doesn't see anything odd.

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWaLxFIVX1s[/media] That would be me if I wasn't on Verizon DLS.

Finnish 24/1 unlimited ADSL2+ in a shitty house with terrible cabling but still getting 2.2-2.4 megabytes a second depending on server master race. I would be doomed if I had a cap. Hmm, let's have a look at the router's bandwidth logs. [img]http://gyazo.com/4d140ed498a8900189951c5ee887c656.png[/img] Shit.

I don't think any ISP has caps over here in Sweden, and I'm damn happy about it!

I feel bad for you guys, I hope Cox doesn't pull this shit. I have Cox Communications and I have a 50mbit connection download and 15mbit upload for $90 a month. No cap.

I have AT&T, but Next year I'll be in Sweden, so at least I'll have amazing internet for a little while. [editline]30th April 2011[/editline] [QUOTE=imasillypiggy;29529660]Well im switching plans and if you care about the internet so will you.[/QUOTE] What exactly do you plan to switch to?

Thanks a fucking lot, capitalism

I live in an area where my only two choices of Broadband are Comcast and AT&T. There's no FiOS out here. I'm slightly disappointed, and Comcast never delivers their 'promised' speed.

[QUOTE=Mr. Bleak;29521966]So, I average 200 hours a month on GMod. Hope my terrible local ISP doesn't switch to this, then I'll have something to love them for.[/QUOTE] assuming you sleep around 8 hours a night, and 200 hours of gmod a month, you have about 280 hours where you're not playing gmod or sleeping. Lol

Oh god I hope Time Warner doesn't do this.

Well that's great went from comcast to AT&T because they didn't have the cap.

I have a 60gb cap on my connection and surprisingly I've not burnt through it in a day or two so seeing as it's still the 30th for another 15 minutes I'm downloading whatever the hell I like.

Virgin 'traffic shapes' me to 200kb/s if i download at a full 1.2mb/s for 20 minutes Soon I fear that they will also cap my download limit once this spreads to UK... What the fuck is this shit seriously