Right. . .while I only use less than 100GB a month No telling when it might go up . . . .. or I will get another cap(tier) put into place Rocket River
We have personal anecdotes of people hitting 500+GB of month in this thread alone and you choose to believe the non scientific propaganda that ISPs spew out lol. In any case the true average is useless because there will be huge extremes on either end. Those that only use the internet to check their emails and those that torrents on the daily. Also there are various "tiers" that will massively separate groups of users. Do you stream (in place of cable TV)? What will happen when 4K streaming starts getting introduced? ~6mbps vs. ~15mbps. Do you game? Game sizes are getting larger. 25GB is the norm for a download from a AAA developer, with sizes up to 60GB or more. Cloud storage? Photos, videos, etc. Don't live alone? Now you get to add a multiplier to your final score! --------------------------- But like I said before. Let's come back to this thread in 4 years when the data cap is still 1TB and average data usage has skyrocketed thanks to 4K streaming/video, people opting for cloud storage over traditional physical storage (for media), and more apps/products being distributed digitally.
You won't ever want to use datellite internet. The latency is about 500+ms. For comparison think airplane WiFi. If you can get a decent AT&T Uverse internet speed tier available to you then I suggest you guys check out TrueStream. http://truestream.com They're a re-seller of Uverse but no data caps.
Saw it coming. No chance these companies would just sit by and take the loss from people cutting cable.
Well we are in trouble lol. We hit 1300's (gb) twice in the last 3 months. Family of 5. We all game and stream. Even the 3 year old youtubes
What are you even speaking of? What propaganda? I never said I support the cap. All I said was most people aren't going to hit this cap. 1TB is a lot. I'm sorry but you generalized by saying this cap wouldn't be good for people with roommates. That's simply not true for most people.
This thread caused me to log into our comcast account, to see how much we used. Haven't seen that yet, but did see that they raised the price of our starter double play. It's the same price of their triple play now (who uses a landline anymore....) with HBO, starz etc all included.
Isn't that what comcast is doing? Going after the people who exceed 1tb, means they are targeting only the ones that go over 1tb. I'm confused by your lack of basic understanding of this.
I'll make it simple for you: comcasts implication is that the (1%) heavy users clog the pipe for everyone else. Charging them an additional fee isn't "going after them". If it was truly a question of bandwidth, there wouldn't be an unlimited option. And lets not forget that other cities are/were under a 300GB cap with a shameless option to stream comcast content without it going against your cap. Bottom line, none of us (not even the 99%) should swallow this bullshit and tolerate this behavior quietly
I don't think you are making much sense here. Comcast doesn't want people to exceed a 1tb cap. That's not too hard to understand. The people who do that are being targeted as excessive users. It appears that your point is that any cap regardless of if you don't abuse it or not is an overt statement against you and comcast should die a slow death because of it.
A 1Tb gap is arbitrary and does nothing to address congestion. Keep drinking that telcom and ISP provided kool aid. If they really wanted to address congestion they would not offer those speeds or throttle everyone's speeds at peak hours.
This is sheer lunacy. They said the same thing to Columbus, Cheney and Peter Jackson, and behold their majestic accomplishments. Scoreboard.
Bandwidth is not a consumable in the extent of what electricity and water are. If the cap isn't a hiding behind the BS of congestion relief then what is it really for? Oh yeah. $$$$ But it's okay guys once the ISPs get "high usage" people (AKA cord cutters) out of the way they will come for you next.
lol, your argument is ridiculous. be thankful that you have 1tb of data. it could be like phone data, if they wanted to be a dick to you. just saying.
I'm at about 475 GB per month. Guessing it is sports and movies, ( through apple TV ) and games ( xbox ), but really have no idea what is included and what is not.
It could be like phone data. That is the ****ing point of why people are trying to push back. Be thankful that I am being capped by manufactured scarcity?
Millennials think everything should be free. And they get really ticked off when they can't find a workaround for their crazy logical. They know comcast has them by the balls and they don't like it. Simple as that. If it were music or movies, they could find a way to get it free, the fact that it is something they can't steal just really pisses them off.
