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theRepublic on 08 May 2011
yo_john117 said:
theRepublic said:

I'm on Comcast.  I just found out that I'm capped from this article.  That sucks.  I don't even know how much I use.  The biggest part of it is probably Netflix.

My only other option where I live?  AT&T U-Verse.  Fuck me.

I imagine that you are probably capped off the same as me which is 250Gb

Now I watch a lot of netlix and other people download a lot, play internet games, and watch tons of Hulu and the closest we have ever come to reaching the cap is 210 GB.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am not even close to the limit.  It just sucks that I have no options as a consumer.



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Rainbow Yoshi on 08 May 2011

So will they still be sponsors of Williams?



yo_john117 on 08 May 2011
theRepublic said:
yo_john117 said:
theRepublic said:

I'm on Comcast.  I just found out that I'm capped from this article.  That sucks.  I don't even know how much I use.  The biggest part of it is probably Netflix.

My only other option where I live?  AT&T U-Verse.  Fuck me.

I imagine that you are probably capped off the same as me which is 250Gb

Now I watch a lot of netlix and other people download a lot, play internet games, and watch tons of Hulu and the closest we have ever come to reaching the cap is 210 GB.

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I am not even close to the limit.  It just sucks that I have no options as a consumer.

Oh thats sucky :/



NJ5 on 10 May 2011

This cannot be good for Onlive.



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bannedagain on 11 May 2011
NJ5 said:

This cannot be good for Onlive.


Yea thats kinda of a nail in the coffin and also pushes digital downloads off for some time. until we have a uprising and take over the internet providers. LOL



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NJ5 on 11 May 2011
bannedagain said:
NJ5 said:

This cannot be good for Onlive.


Yea thats kinda of a nail in the coffin and also pushes digital downloads off for some time. until we have a uprising and take over the internet providers. LOL


Digital downloads should be pretty OK... Well, unless you have just reformatted your hard drive and want to download 20 previously purchased games in a row.



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rocketpig on 11 May 2011

If you're using more than 250GB/month, you deserve to pay a tax on it.

I do a lot of Internet work and I have yet to surpass 200GB. Then again, I'm not stealing every fucking thing on planet Earth (though I do torrent a fair amount), which is the only way you're going to surpass 250GB in a month's time.




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rocketpig on 11 May 2011
Kasz216 said:
KylieDog said:

Should remove the caps for all and throttle the speed for heavy users.  And no, playing games all the time and watching a few movies will not make you a heavy user before people complain.

They already throttle heavy speed users.

What I find funny is my internet connection.  It varies wildly... with nothing to do with peak times.  Unless 3AM is a peak time.

If your entire neighborhood unthrottles their torrents at night like most people I know do, yeah, it's a peak time.




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rocketpig on 11 May 2011
theRepublic said:

I'm on Comcast.  I just found out that I'm capped from this article.  That sucks.  I don't even know how much I use.  The biggest part of it is probably Netflix.

My only other option where I live?  AT&T U-Verse.  Fuck me.

I have Comcast. You don't have to worry. I run five websites (lots of FTPing), constantly transfer 100MB files up and down from a cloud server, watch Netflix almost every night, torrent 40-50GB of files in your average month (and even seed back at around a 1 ratio), and still haven't crested 200GB.




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rocketpig on 11 May 2011
Snesboy said:

I've read pretty much every post in this thread and all I have to say is: "Fuck AT&T." Bandwidth isn't a natural resource. We create it and we should have unlimited of it. It's not hard to get a bigger server. My brother plays a shit ton of WoW and I'm always on YouTube or battle.net and Steam chewing up bandwidth because that's what you do on the internet. It's a bunch of shit that they think they can get away with this. We shouldn't be getting capped by a "resource" that we can have unlimited of.

That's just it. Bandwidth is NOT unlimited. It requires hardware, electricity, and loads of other goodies (not including maintenance/monitoring labor). Ever seen how much power a small server farm requires? They consume more juice than the entire Empire State Building, and that's just for a modest one-or-two level farm.

Why do people think this stuff is free? IT'S NOT.




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