Oh Fuck. AT&T Broadband Jumps on the Bandwidth Cap Bandwagon
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Stop whining, I have a 10 gb cap here in Iceland.
[QUOTE=acds;31149194]Most of Europe has a damn good internet infrastructure, but not all of it. Italy, Spain and Greece come to mind. I know people in Italy that don't even have access to ADSL and are stuck on 56k.[/QUOTE]
I don't know about Italy or Spain, but over here, we have 24 MB/s uncapped for just 40 Euros every month or something.
My family really needs to do something about AT&T. My dad made them get internet out here so we would not have dial up, he was pretty much helping the entire town. When it was here it was 600~ KB/s with no caps and no problems. Now our speeds went down, when it rains the internet goes down alot, and we have a 150 GB cap. Woo.
This article was published April 29. So the caps are already in place.
My ISP set a cap at 150GB, which resets at 145GB.
I'm not telling them a thing.
[QUOTE=Parakon;31149580]Companies really need to be more socially responsible. It's disgusting knowing that people had a meeting over this garbage and came out thinking it was brilliant.[/QUOTE]
But it really is brilliant. For them.
Because they have reach to places where people pretty much have them as the only choice, so they don't really have competition and do whatever the fuck they want
Internet in Israel isn't exactly the most advanced thing, it's not too fast (I have a 1.3MB max download speed and 0.1 upload), but Iv'e never heard of bandwidth caps here yet.
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I wish I had better internet.
Ive got a 30gb cap.
Fuck.
I wished that the telecom companies would put some investment in the infrastructure so that we could have better internet, but greed still remains the driving force in humanity still how sad. And not only telecom as well you can tell when there was greed put in front of customers in any product nowadays.
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Well, it's time I switched off of Uverse. Say hello Verizon! I also plan to get rid of me and my moms iPhone so we can get a Verizon phone, AT&T is possibly one the worlds greediest companies. I mean, it's getting to the third (fourth?) time the US will have to split up the company for growing too large. It's happened twice (three times?) already.
Motherfucker >:(
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ill take the 60$ Unlimited plan. Then, beg the fuck out of the ISP to get more speed.
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Sadly, I don't live in Lund (only place that is available, for now). Prices in SEK.
I'm glad I switched from att a while ago. Well the service was shit anyways so this would have just made it worse.
Everything in Australia ISP wise is over priced and sucks dick.
Fuck, and just when I was planning on upgrading to a faster plan. There are only 3 ISPs in my area, AT&T, Comcast, and HughesNet. Two of them induce data caps, and one of them isn't even worth mentioning.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;31136151]That's Europe's internet infrastructure is the best in the world. We have extremely fast internet with no data cap at really low prices.[/QUOTE] I live in Europe and It would take me 19 days to download 150GB
[QUOTE=Nikota;31133550]Oh wow. 150 GB is nothing.[/QUOTE]
:what:
I've been living on 30gb for a few years now.
I don't understand how people go over these caps anyway, i think the most i ever downloaded in a month was 100gb and that was like my entire steam library. If your downloading that plus 20 bluray movies a month you deserve to be capped for hogging your neighbourhoods internet.
[QUOTE=Gareth;31171074]I don't understand how people go over these caps anyway, i think the most i ever downloaded in a month was 100gb and that was like my entire steam library. If your downloading that plus 20 bluray movies a month you deserve to be capped for hogging your neighbourhoods internet.[/QUOTE]
I download about 0.5-1TB every month.
I see nothing wrong with speed throttling, but usage capping I draw the line. Glad we don't seem to get that often here in the UK.
[QUOTE=Mr.T;31136151]That's Europe's internet infrastructure is the best in the world. We have extremely fast internet with no data cap at really low prices.[/QUOTE]
100/50 with unlimited bandwith and about 18-22 euros a month, TV included.
6 euros for my phone, unlimited bandwith, 2mb/s.
Our internet infrastructure is really quite damn incredible, and it costs next to nothing compared to the US for what it's worth.
[QUOTE=IForgotPassword;31150590]All of you guys are complaining for nothing. Australia has it much worse. If it's not a cap it's 50c/mb over the limit on very expensive plans. Lets not forget the amount of tax on each bill either.[/QUOTE]
Of course you have it worse, you're in [I]Australia[/I]. We're trying to avoid turning into your country.
Makes me hate AT&T even more seeing DSL already cuts out randomly from 2 PM to 7 PM EVERY SINGLE DAY. It's also slow as fucking hell around 1 am too.
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Sadly, I don't live in Lund (only place that is available, for now). Prices in SEK.[/QUOTE]
That's about 80 USD
I guess I could consider myself lucky by having the options of AT&T or Comcast. Comcast was absolutely horrible in my neighborhood though, we never got the speed we were paying for (shared line, right?) U-verse always gives us the speeds we're paying for.
[QUOTE=Amez;31133968]Actually the isp behemoths that you're going to be competing against will find any way to shut you down or buy you out.[/QUOTE]
Yeah that's a very good point I must admit.
Companies like AT&T just want money, they could care less what they charge their customers.
Sad, sad world. :suicide:
That would be cool though, starting an ISP. Start small, and grow perhaps?
Can't wait until Google Fiber goes nationwide...
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