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StormSnarlX
United States278 Posts
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zeppelin
United States565 Posts
On December 12 2009 12:52 thedeadhaji wrote: 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) comcast just bought a controlling interest in NBC for 14 billion dollars i don't think they're struggling | ||
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
OOL $50 Regular = 15d/2u OOL Peak Node Sharing BS = 1d/1u (Sometimes it dips below the 1Mbit range, WTF?) edit: They dont seem to enforce any bandwidth limits but who will with these slow copper wire speeds. | ||
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So no fek
United States3001 Posts
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FragKrag
United States11567 Posts
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Athos
United States2484 Posts
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
Im sure it was a joke, if not... I dont know what to say? Yahoo Answers? | ||
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Loser777
1931 Posts
= 480Gb/491,520Mb per month | ||
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Saturnize
United States2473 Posts
On December 12 2009 11:37 SonuvBob wrote: I find my ISP's policies to be more in line with my needs: ![[image loading]](http://i.imgur.com/O6JGR.png) Hahahaha so true. Too bad they dont have FiOS in my area -.- | ||
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shreepy
United States121 Posts
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22260 Posts
On December 12 2009 11:25 Solinren wrote: 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? Dear god I dunno how I missed a Comcast thread -_-;; You pretty much hit the nail on the head... tbh, we don't really care if people are using up a lot of of the bandwidth, so long as it does not disrupt the the experience for others. Despite what a lot of doomsdayers will say, the amount of people that this actually affects, and that we actually contact about, is PAINFULLY small. And, despite the strong wording, we will never cut someone off without making several attempts to warn them, and, of course, try to convince them to upgrade to business class services if the residential class limits are not meeting their needs.  It's not like one day, out of the blue, your internet will cut off... you WILL know well ahead of time if that's the path you're traveling down. Anyways, yeah... I had an update about the pilot launch of the usage meter a few days ago. It is actually in response to customers requesting a tool to monitor their usage after the 250GB announcement (which ironically was put in place by customers requesting a 'hard cap' after the vague policies beforehand weren't really doing it for some people [which is ironic in itself, because again we were even LESS strict before, basically going with my original comment about only going after people who are in such an insane amount of excess, it is impacting others]). But I digress...  The usage meter isn't being piloted in my areas. Usually, whenever we have a new product we want to trial it in 'safe' test markets... usually smaller areas that don't have a huge host of other problems going on that make it harder to tell if whatever we are testing is having an impact. If anything, you should actually be proud that you're in a test area - these tend to be areas with the most reliable service.  On December 12 2009 14:37 zeppelin wrote: comcast just bought a controlling interest in NBC for 14 billion dollars i don't think they're struggling Actually, your reaction is exactly why I hate those kind've announcements... they make people think a situation is one way, when it is really something completely different. -_- Investment money in something that is intended for long term revenue generation (ie, company survival) is completely seperate from the money that runs the day-to-day operations. We've had our fair share of cutbacks... quite a bit actually that I'd rather not get into. We are fortunate enough to be RELATIVELY unaffected by the recession, but are definitely running into some struggles. On December 12 2009 15:41 shreepy wrote: I ,unfortunately, also am on Comcast. In the area I live you can pretty much only get comcast for broadband internet. When I first got it I actually coaxed them into giving us a buisness line thinking that it would be alright if it was a dedicated business line. Boy was I wrong, I am stuck on the most unstable internet connection I have ever had to deal with it. Random drops, random lags, everything imaginable to make the most frustrating internet ever. I recently also received a similar message.. and thankfully I really have no other broadband options and am on contract for several years anyways. yeah FML Sorry - When I see stuff like this, the ignorance actually gets me a little riled up, but by the same token, I don't doubt that you're having genuine service issues, and just probably haven't talked to anyone yet who has really addressed them. That said, tbh, what you describe is something that can absolutely be fixed. You're a bit outside of the area that I support looking at your registration IP to TL.net, but I should still be able to pull up your equipment and take a look if you'd like. You can feel free to PM me your account number (found on your bill of course) or your modem's CM Mac address if you want me to look into this for you when I get back to the office. | ||
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leetchaos
United States395 Posts
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CharlieMurphy
United States22895 Posts
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Disregard
China10252 Posts
On December 12 2009 21:08 CharlieMurphy wrote: I'd be so pissed if I found out that my internet (and neighborhood net) was being slowed down because some fag was dling tons of kpop. lol, instant rimshot? | ||
zatic
Zurich15366 Posts
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Solinren
United States2653 Posts
On December 12 2009 18:49 EvilTeletubby wrote: Despite what a lot of doomsdayers will say, the amount of people that this actually affects, and that we actually contact about, is PAINFULLY small. I'm afraid I might be one of those painfully small people that would in fact get contacted by Comcast. I'm just hoping that I don't because my neighborhood is quite small and I wouldn't slow anybody down at 2 - 6 in the morning. ='( | ||
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EvilTeletubby
Baltimore, USA22260 Posts
On December 13 2009 04:03 Solinren wrote: I'm afraid I might be one of those painfully small people that would in fact get contacted by Comcast. I'm just hoping that I don't because my neighborhood is quite small and I wouldn't slow anybody down at 2 - 6 in the morning. ='( Well, worst case, use it like you normally would, and if you surpass the limit and they (our abuse department) feel compelled enough to make a big deal out of it, we'll send you a notification, or even try to call you. You won't get kicked off for the first offense. And TBH if you have been downloading like that and we had a problem with it, you would have been contacted a LONG time ago. | ||
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