gymnist1026 Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 net monitoring isnt that bad if you are careful... I live in a campus dorm at the moment and i have a 2 gb bandwidth cap per day, which by itself isnt that bad as i usually never exceed it (although i can get it to be 1.99 gb per day....) The only bad part is that if i want to dl a game/movie that is over 2 gb, then i have to do it over several days which is a pain, especially when new stuff comes out...
Diso Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 NONE of you should be complaining until youve dealt with DSL =[what's wrong with it? It's slow and it drops sometimes, well at least my DSL service did. It was completely unreliable. 250gb bandwidth caps are reasonable. I don't think anyone could hit that limit really unless they're really trying to but hell I have a 250mb cap per day so I rather have Comcast's thing than mine.
mtsaint Posted August 29, 2008 Posted August 29, 2008 Keep in mind its not how much you download its how much you download/upload its total traffic per month. So lets says you download 100 gb of data and seed to a 1:1 ratio thats 200 gb right there.Yes im on comcast yes this sux
Xtreme2damax Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 NONE of you should be complaining until youve dealt with DSL =[ Have you checked the ISP I have to use in my last post, much worse than DSL or Cable not to mention you are throttled between 4PM - 12PM EST at a whopping 100 kb/s and on average between those time you get to download files or browse web pages at a whole 15 - 30Kb/s, speed depends on how congested the network is and may vary.
megaman_zer0 Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Keep in mind its not how much you download its how much you download/upload its total traffic per month. So lets says you download 100 gb of data and seed to a 1:1 ratio thats 200 gb right there.Yes im on comcast yes this suxthere won't be a ratio of 1:1 well unless you actually seed torrents or something.
Inky Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Keep in mind its not how much you download its how much you download/upload its total traffic per month. So lets says you download 100 gb of data and seed to a 1:1 ratio thats 200 gb right there.Yes im on comcast yes this suxthere won't be a ratio of 1:1 well unless you actually seed torrents or something.some of us actually seed back what we download, I know it's a hard concept to grasp. I upload double what I download easily, I keep a 2:1 or better ratio on the soup and blackcats at all times. If Time Warner were to do this I'd be in major trouble quickly. not to mention youtube, streaming movies, xbox live traffic. 250gb isn't a lot in these times.
megaman_zer0 Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 the point I'm making is the is enough for people who are not realy downlading illegally. cuts down piracy a little and I can live with 250 gigs a month do you even realize how much that is and how bad it is to be using that much monthly?
gavin19 Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 ...do you even realize how much that is and how bad it is to be using that much monthly? Bad for whom? My ISP throttles at certain times of the day when you exceed a specified amount of GB. Just looking at last month's logs I tranferred 849 gigs, although this month it was only 384. On average it would be around 400-500. Considering the size of games, HD movies, flac, streaming video etc then 250GB may not be nearly enough for your average p*rate.
Chaotica Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 I would love 250 gigs to play with, although I have 12 gigs per month and that's usually enough.
Gryph Posted August 30, 2008 Author Posted August 30, 2008 Well we're Americans and we demand bigger, larger, badder, and other awesome adjectives. These limits better go up in the future. Remember how much you used to download a few years ago? That's tiny to how much you download now. The larger our HDDs get and the more we move over to digital distribution this is going to really be a thorn in the side.
gymnist1026 Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Its not that the limit might go up, its that putting a limit on will mean that they are going to start lowering it and charging you exorbitant fees if you go over...250 is just a start...if there are no large complaints, then slowly it will be lowered...eventually down to what the average web surfing soccer mom uses a month, so that any downloading will cause you to break the cap and cause you to have to pay large fees...
Lucandrake Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Its not that the limit might go up, its that putting a limit on will mean that they are going to start lowering it and charging you exorbitant fees if you go over...250 is just a start...if there are no large complaints, then slowly it will be lowered...eventually down to what the average web surfing soccer mom uses a month, so that any downloading will cause you to break the cap and cause you to have to pay large fees... Then that's when Comcast looses all their customers, or we all actually get "active" and do something about it.
Gryph Posted August 30, 2008 Author Posted August 30, 2008 Its not that the limit might go up, its that putting a limit on will mean that they are going to start lowering it and charging you exorbitant fees if you go over...250 is just a start...if there are no large complaints, then slowly it will be lowered...eventually down to what the average web surfing soccer mom uses a month, so that any downloading will cause you to break the cap and cause you to have to pay large fees... Then that's when Comcast looses all their customers, or we all actually get "active" and do something about it.Loses customers to where? Most places only have one cable company and one DSL company. It's only a matter of time till other companies start their bandwidth caps.
gymnist1026 Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 in my area it is Comcast or ATT DSL...so if you want a fast connection, then you really have no other choice... also... http://torrentfreak.com/qwests-unofficial-...ata-cap-080829/ looks like the domino effect has started....
Lucandrake Posted August 30, 2008 Posted August 30, 2008 Its not that the limit might go up, its that putting a limit on will mean that they are going to start lowering it and charging you exorbitant fees if you go over...250 is just a start...if there are no large complaints, then slowly it will be lowered...eventually down to what the average web surfing soccer mom uses a month, so that any downloading will cause you to break the cap and cause you to have to pay large fees... Then that's when Comcast looses all their customers, or we all actually get "active" and do something about it.Loses customers to where? Most places only have one cable company and one DSL company. It's only a matter of time till other companies start their bandwidth caps. Loose it's customers period! You think Comcast will keep up their limit if every internet user out there agrees to not pay their bill/cancel until change occurs? While it is hope full, it wouldn't be a impossibility.
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