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I believe many of those who use Comcast may be unaware of the fact that they have implemented a 250GB bandwidth to every residential users last year in October (2008) and they'll cut you off for a year. But they really haven't been enforcing this to every customer and only to few that uses Terabytes and those who "congest" their nodes. Can ETT shed some light on this if possible?
So I checked my comcast email today and this is what I found.
+ Show Spoiler [This is what it looks like.] +
^ I'm not home so the usage may look quite low but I go home today. ^
+ Show Spoiler [My Typical usage] +
So as many of you know, I'm a huge fan of Kpop. I watch the performances and I download them afterwards in 1080p. And that adds up fast over the weekend alone. (Approximately 40- 50G during the weekends) So even if I don't watch promatches, I'm already at 200Gb per month.
What I don't understand is, Why Portland? I'm sure there's better place with more subscribers. Comcast is the only ISP in Portland that has decent DL/UL speeds. Fios is not an option as the closest proximity it is being offered is 5miles away from where I am.
So if you're like me that watches Pro-matches (and Kpop) nightly it is best to switch to a better alternative if you can and away from this mess.
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So basically they are giving you more BW? a terabyte is pretty damn big but i think in the end it doesnt even matter cus a lower amount would probably cost less and be just as good
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On December 12 2009 11:27 arb wrote:
So basically they are giving you more BW? a terabyte is pretty damn big but i think in the end it doesnt even matter cus a lower amount would probably cost less and be just as good
They're giving me less BW and Kpop. They weren't taking it seriously before, but now they've implemented a meter on the cable modem, they'll cut me off.
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I don't think that pro matches make up that much. If we assume that you watch 5 times a week for 3 hours (which is quite a lot) and the quality being ~500kbit/s (i don't really know, but the way it looks i doubt it is higher) then you would end up with ~13,5gb per month, which is only a smal portion of your overall available traffic.
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I find my ISP's policies to be more in line with my needs:
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Forgive me but maybe you don't need 1080p kpop?
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On December 12 2009 11:40 writer22816 wrote:
Forgive me but maybe you don't need 1080p kpop?
Not grabbing 1080 cuts will totally defeat the purpose of watching Kpop in the first place.
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On December 12 2009 11:40 writer22816 wrote:
you don't need 1080p kpop.
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Since i somehow feel like being between wanting to go to bed and staying up for starcraft and just wasting time, I took the last week of november and calculated how much it would be if you would have watched every available pro match in that week. As my basis for calculation I took the sizes of the files at the tl.net tracker. I think the vods on the tracker are higher quality than the streams though. I ended up with ~11GB. So ~44GB for a month if you watch everything. So if you are at 200GB a month and add the pro matches you would be very close to the limit but still fine.
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Be happy, 250gb is something we can only dream of here. Mostly it's like 30 gb/month, which fucking sucks hardcore balls if you 've got a 20Mbit connection.
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Roffles
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Although 250GB would be more than enough for me, time like this make me glad to live just outside NY. Two awesome ISP with unlimited bandwidth, even if one does totally try and rip you off the service was still good.
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On December 12 2009 11:37 SonuvBob wrote:I find my ISP's policies to be more in line with my needs:
Is that real?
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On December 12 2009 12:41 WindCalibur wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2009 11:37 SonuvBob wrote:I find my ISP's policies to be more in line with my needs: Is that real?
sure
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Wow I hate when companies do caps like this, and without letting you know about it when you sign with them. Some wait and do this shit as a new plan. That said, 250 should be enough?
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On the one hand you have companies that are struggling to maintain profit in the current model of fixed pay per month that must cope with the exponentially growing bandwidth rates of the userbase.
On the other hand you have the users who feel entitled to what they pay for - unlimited (or what was unlimited) bandwidth for a fixed fee.
The only compromise I see, is for companies to offer multiple packages, some being 10gb/month, 100gb/month, and unlimited. Unlimited would be anywhere from 3-10x the rate of what you're paying right now for internet (so like 100-300 month?). The companies on the other hand would have to ensure that every "unlimited" user get at least (for example) 500kb/s DL and 200kb/s UL.
If I were in charge of the business, this is probably what I'd launch (though I obviously dont know the inner workings)
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On December 12 2009 11:37 SonuvBob wrote:I find my ISP's policies to be more in line with my needs:
I second this. I am a very needy person and I have receive the much neediness I need.
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I can't wait for FiOS to come to my area
all these posts make me jealous
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This is why I can't imagine having download cap of any sort.
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On December 12 2009 12:41 WindCalibur wrote:Show nested quote +On December 12 2009 11:37 SonuvBob wrote:I find my ISP's policies to be more in line with my needs: Is that real?
lol
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