• Comcast rolling out 1TB data cap on November 1st
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lol fuck off you pieces of shit, data caps have no use and are detrimental to society
I honestly wonder how can one consistently use more than 2 TB of Up/Down Traffic Per Week. Even with my family being heavy video streaming users we barely hit / hover around 1TB per month :v: [t]https://puu.sh/rAFch.png[/t]
[QUOTE=eirexe;51165159]This all comes down to greed, companies here don't have datacaps in home internet and they still turn in a massive profit.[/QUOTE] Comcast only has a net profit margin of ~12%... This is well within a healthy amount.
[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;51164916]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.[/QUOTE] Houston is the only Comcast market in Texas. The max amount of data a month I've used is about 750GB. That was done with heavy streaming and torrenting.
[URL]http://www.semaphore.com/blog/94-95th-percentile-bandwidth-metering-explained-and-analyzed[/URL] I don't mind this, it's a little complex on paper, but I feel like it can strike the best balance between treating consumers well and not wrecking your network. Though american ISPs might abuse the fuck out of anything, there are other ways to help resolve the shitty collusion they have. Google has talked quite openly but just how hard it is for them to be their new ISP due to a lot of bullshit in place, also I wouldn't mind if cities were to provide their own service as well just like water. They would still contract private companies to do it, but they'd have better negotiating power The problem with unlimited is that some people will actually take you up on that offer. And then you'll have people taking up way more than what they're paying you is worth and adversely affecting other consumers, it's not near as much of a problem with home internet as it is with mobile, but it's still a problem sometimes.
Looks like i'm fully cancelling comcast service.
I'd like to point out this literally has nothing to do with congestion. In fact, the FTC would be on their ass if it was due to congestion. From leaked documents from 2015 (when they were implementing the 300gb cap). [quote]Do say: "Fairness and providing a more flexible policy to our customers." Don't say: "The program is about congestion management." (It is not.)[/quote] Comcast gets tax money to keep their infrastructure up to date. If this was for congestion reasons they could get in trouble.
1TB of data... at decent speeds? Awwww. 20x better than anything we get in Australia unless you're on the National Broadband Network. [QUOTE=.Vel;51165292]Looks like i'm fully cancelling comcast service.[/QUOTE] And getting what instead?
Eh, I've been stuck in their 300gb horse shit for a while now. This is quite the upgrade!
[QUOTE=The bird Man;51165042]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] Where the heck are you living
What will this mean if I play a lot of games on steam? Will I hit the limit through downloads or just internet use?
I don't quite understand the sudden outrage over this. Yeah, it's shitty, but throttling users who go over a certain limit per month on high speed "unlimited" plans has been standard practice for Comcast for years. The only difference now is they're being honest with what they're actually doing. Nothing has changed. If this hasn't affected you before it won't now. It's only an issue if you broadcast regularly on Twitch, in which case you've probably already experienced this.
[QUOTE=DeathDoom;51165768]I don't quite understand the sudden outrage over this. Yeah, it's shitty, but throttling users who go over a certain limit per month on high speed "unlimited" plans has been standard practice for Comcast for years. The only difference now is they're being honest with what they're actually doing. Nothing has changed. If this hasn't affected you before it won't now. This is only an issue if you broadcast regularly on Twitch, in which case you've probably already experienced this.[/QUOTE] There is nothing sudden about this outrage, it's been a continuous hatred for ISPs and their shitty data caps.
Meanwhile in Canada, we've had data caps for a decade... [t]http://i.imgur.com/PjbjfeL.png[/t]
Isps clearly like to keep us in the early 2000s
[QUOTE=jiggu;51165686]Where the heck are you living[/QUOTE] Trollhättan, apartment. They support two ISP:s, but the second one is ADSL and it gives me worse speed :(
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;51165830]Meanwhile in Canada, we've had data caps for a decade... [t]http://i.imgur.com/PjbjfeL.png[/t][/QUOTE] That's how it is up here in Alaska too, except it's fucking expensive as shit. [t]https://i.imgur.com/ZUZ5F3a.png[/t]
[QUOTE=ShaunOfTheLive;51165830]Meanwhile in Canada, we've had data caps for a decade... [t]http://i.imgur.com/PjbjfeL.png[/t][/QUOTE] Officially worse than Australia, what the fuck Canada. [t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20161007150941255.png[/t]
[QUOTE=helifreak;51165981]Officially worse than Australia, what the fuck Canada. [t]https://helifreak.duckdns.org/image/20161007150941255.png[/t][/QUOTE] When NBN drops on this side of town, this is what we're looking at [t]https://jii.moe/EycE3jxAZ.png[/t] First six months is double bandwidth Currently, it's about Australia Average [ADSL 2+] [t]https://jii.moe/41FnhixCW.png[/t] Almost forget that we have to convert dollarydoos for shit in this thread [t]https://jii.moe/4ye7ase0Z.png[/t][t]https://jii.moe/V157TseCW.png[/t]
[QUOTE=tyanet;51165964]That's how it is up here in Alaska too, except it's fucking expensive as shit. [t]https://i.imgur.com/ZUZ5F3a.png[/t][/QUOTE] No Worries. (except for poverty, cause basic internet cost will put you on the street)
Family of 5 here and we hit around 1TB a month. Usually less but sometimes, like in August, we hit 1100. I use a lot from twitch and youtube, my sisters use netflix and others a lot, and my dad watches TV online and all that adds up to around 960ish a month. From my router: [url]http://i.imgur.com/KDe1pBa.png[/url] (mafia 3 came out today so that's why today's is so high even though it's only 11AM)
What the fuck is up with US and Australian ISPs? Never had any issue here.
Are people honestly complaining? The caps were previously 300gib, this is a Good Thing.
[QUOTE=DiBBs27;51166034]No Worries. (except for poverty, cause basic internet cost will put you on the street)[/QUOTE] Pretty much. And 'Speeds reduced' means it takes 5 minutes for Facebook to load, and streaming or downloading is totally out of the question, but you can buy another 10GB of internet for $20 a pop.
[QUOTE=Scratch.;51166003]When NBN drops on this side of town, this is what we're looking at [t]https://jii.moe/EycE3jxAZ.png[/t] First six months is double bandwidth Currently, it's about Australia Average [ADSL 2+] [t]https://jii.moe/41FnhixCW.png[/t] Almost forget that we have to convert dollarydoos for shit in this thread [t]https://jii.moe/4ye7ase0Z.png[/t][t]https://jii.moe/V157TseCW.png[/t][/QUOTE] Welcome to rural Arkansas. [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/2GQkQfy.jpg[/IMG] Good old Hughesnet!
Oh well, just gotta bend over and take it until fiber rolls out here.
Man that's fucked People where I live who has a house miles away from civilization has fiber
Everyone should be looking into their city/county contracts with ISPs to see if you can get a tax levy to provide internet service locally
[QUOTE=FurrehFaux;51164916]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.[/QUOTE] dallas/san antonio have either confirmed or tentatively planned google fiber
[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] i'm one of 7 in a house, and this is just my PC [img]http://i.imgur.com/qyK164r.png[/img]
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