What is your home ISP data cap (per month)?
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700GB (Score:2)
It still doesn't matter if I let the family use Youtube, Amazon Video and freely download on Steam, PSN and XBOX Live I easily go past this. I've already got one strike over my head. I feel like I can't freely spend my money on digital goods I want, like I can't use services I pay for. I fee s
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I fee severely restricted and can't help but wonder why they don't simply throttle if their is congestion.
Because this way they can strong-arm you into a more expensive connection. If they throttled you might decide you're happy with waiting a little longer for downloads or watching your video at lower resolutions. But with very fast speeds and a low cap, you can either carefully make sure each app that any family member might use isn't using too much bandwidth, or just give in and spend more money.
Re: 700GB (Score:2)
The situation has gotten so bad in my area that I finally just told them to take their monopoly on cables and shove it. $103/mo for Internet access? Fuqdat. I paid those bastards $50/mo for YEARS and YEARS, surely their infrastructure has been well paid for by now. What possible excuse do they have for more than doubling the price and imposing data limits?
Now I use FreedomPop on my tablet/phone and pay nothing to check my email or do a little light web browsing (1GB/mo data completely free). When I find mys
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If enough people took this approach then those venues would stop offering free wi-fi.
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Shorter: 'I claim Infinite Butthurt (tm) for Trump not fixing this over the first weekend.'
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That is extreme. Here's my stats:
Cap: None
Down: 1000mbps
Up: 1000mbps
Cost: $70/month
ISP: Google Freakin' Fiber
Thanks to (Score:2)
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"Anyway, it's the wireless data caps that annoy me"
I always end each month closer to my broadband cap using my desktop and WiFi'ed tablet than I do to my Verizon Wireless cap using my phone, and that's with every kind of phone usage short of streaming videos.
Memories of happiness? (Score:2)
The time I can recall being happiest with my Internet access situation was when I had a one-device (smartphone) solution. I had unlimited data, though at moderate speed. I tethered all of my computers through the phone and had enough data for watching videos. Ran through 50 GB in most months, but I was only paying about $50/month, if I remember correctly. Before that I had almost the same deal with that company, but I had to use two devices, a dumb phone and a USB dongle.
Unfortunately, the company got bough
Cairns, Australia (Score:2)
Uncapped.
Heaviest users are shaped when the network is congested
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Bucharest, Romania, Optic Fiber, 1 Gbps, free 3G USB dongle, uncapped, unlimited transfer.
3G stick is slowed down after 5 GB monthly transfer but since I never use it, I don't care.
My ISP also offers free dynamic DNS service. All for about 18 bucks a month, includes cable TV (which I never watch).
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No Idea (Score:2)
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My ISP announced they would start capping but then never did which is a good thing because I use all streaming services for tv, radio, voip phone, etc..
No cap (Score:2)
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150gb (Score:2)
US vs Sweden (Score:3)
US: 10 Mbps down/3 Mbps up, 250 GB cap, $59.95/mo, including $10/mo modem rental. (Xfinity)
Sweden: 100 Mbps up/down, no cap, ~$40/mo (495 SEK), no modem needed since it's fibre to the door. (Bredbandsbolaget) (We could upgrade to 300 or 500 but why?)
The cap on the US service is plenty for us, since we've never used more than about 95 GB in a single month (we don't confuse the Internet with cable TV).
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I misremembered, it seems--just looked at the bill and it's 369 SEK, not 495. That's roughly $US 41 right now.
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If you're paying $59.95 a month for 10 MBps, you need to shop around. I have Xfinity, and I'm paying $43 per month (all taxes and fees included) for 60 Mbps down / 6 Mbps up, $300 GB cap (which I never come close to).
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The term is cap [merriam-webster.com], amigo. See [2] and [6] under the entry for the noun, [2] and [5] under the entry for the verb.
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Yeah the Americans love to let the market decide for them.
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So "the market" is a roomful of MBAs and other sociopaths sitting down together to decide what something is worth?
Yes, that is called a cartel and yes, they are still around.
Re: US vs Sweden (Score:1)
Trump will fix that. He will make America great. Again.
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Yes, being back the 1950's when there was no data cap, you could stream as many shows onto your PC as you wanted. It was a simpler time when America was great.
25GB (Score:2)
Sweden. (Score:1)
1.2 TB (Score:1)
Largish (Score:1)
2TB.
I love my fiber. I love paying the $35/mo for 250/250 connection.
No cap, RU, Rostelecom (Score:1)
500 MB (Score:1)
1.2TB (Score:2)
When I first signed up it was either 30GB or 60GB, can't remember exactly, and it's been getting regular upgrades ever since.
The speed, on the other hand, hasn't improved at all. 14 down, 2 up. Meh.
FIOS (Score:1)
1TB, but fast. (Score:2)
Cap is 1TB. Connection is 80Mbps (actually, about 75Mbps) and is consistently that fast day or night.
Andrews and Arnold ISP
I'm in Wallingford, England
I use Comcast Business (Score:1)
In the northeast I pay about $150/month for 50/10 down/up, one IPv4 static IP, and unlimited local and long distance with no data caps. No port blocks either. The speed varies of course, but most days it's closer to 60/15. Overall quality of service is much better than residential, and that includes the phone support. I'm probably an outlier, but value for the money is there. I could get a fatter pipe through residential for about half, but I have no reason, technical or otherwise, to switch.
Don't have access to wired service w/o a cap? wow (Score:2)
Why? Because a data caps on a wired service are a scam and profit center for cable companies to gouge people. And no, it's not like craving Oreos [arstechnica.com].
Even Comcast, which just capped their customers at 1TB [theverge.com], still offer an unlimited plan for more $$$$$$. Is there a data shortage, or not? To cable compa
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Try buying business Internet service. It is never capped.
Back to School (Score:1)
No Cap (Score:1)
Comcast (Score:2)
Service plan is 200 Mbps Down / 10 Mbps Up for $70/mo (promotional 2-years, after that normal price is $90/mo). Pleasantly surprised that they over provision the modem, so on speedtest.net I actually get 240 down / 12 up.
Not speaking to the company as a whole, but coming from ATT Uverse where the fastest I could get w
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You can do better after the 2 years actually. I had been renting a modem (too many failures in the past) but decided to finally buy one. In doing that I had to cancel my previous bundle of phone/internet which the only reason I had it was for a measly discount that wasnt worth it anymore. So when I went into the store and they put me on a deal where they just charge me for the base 25mbps plan, but then tack on the boost speed which bumped it to 220/10, and then added a standard discount for agreeing to a
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Off contract my plan will cost $90, so not sure
AT&T U-verse Central Illinois (Score:2)
12Mbps down (though I usually get around 13-15) and around 1.4Mbps up, $52/month, 1024GB per month. I own the modem, so pay no equipment fee, but only because I'm grandfathered in, if the modem/router breaks I'll have to pay a modem rental fee as well. Service is very reliable, though.
I rarely go over 60-70GB, but I still don't like the idea of caps. You should be paying for speed, with everyone limited to a percentage of their paid-for speed when there's congestion, while the limit would be increased du
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I rarely go over 60-70GB, but I still don't like the idea of caps. You should be paying for speed, with everyone limited to a percentage of their paid-for speed when there's congestion, while the limit would be increased during low-usage times.
That's how far too many of these ultra-cheap "unlimited" services work. The advertised price is so far below the actual cost of providing what they're claiming to provide that something has to give. The way it's done is to oversell the capacity heavily, and then no-one gets anything like the speed which they paid for, but at least there's no data cap.
I prefer it the way around my ISP does it - I never get near my 1 TB cap, but I can be confident that my speed will stay high all the time.
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Why would that approach guarantee that your speed is consistently high, and why would a no-cap method be limited only to "ultra-cheap" ISPs?
Giving everyone a 1TB cap doesn't prevent congestion, and all ISPs oversell capacity, relying on the fact that people don't use the full capacity most of the time. The capacity is instantaneous available bandwidth, not bytes per month. If I didn't watch any movies last week, those bytes I didn't use aren't still sitting around waiting for me this week, only to magica
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Why would that approach guarantee that your speed is consistently high, and why would a no-cap method be limited only to "ultra-cheap" ISPs?
Giving everyone a 1TB cap doesn't prevent congestion,
True enough, but you've reversed what I said to try to create a straw man.
Yes, applying a cap doesn't in itself prevent congestion, but what I said was the opposite way around. If ISPs sell a service at a price below the wholesale cost (because the market is driven - at least in this country - very much by "cheap, cheap, cheap") then they need to find some way to make a profit. To begin with they applied caps (whilst pretending they weren't doing), but as that's now become politically unacceptable to the
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The limit is available bandwidth. You seem to be saying that because you've seen ISPs with no caps deliver less than promised bandwidth, that means no caps cause it, and the only way to deliver promised bandwidth is to have caps.
Your ISP is vastly oversold as well. If every customer suddenly tried to use their full rated bandwidth, I guarantee you that it would slow to a crawl. The only difference with a reliable ISP is that they don't oversell it as much, monitor usage, and provide more capacity as need
Et tu, Suddenlink (Score:2)
Suddenlink is a great ISP in all respects except for the 350G monthly cap on even the highest of their three service plans. Having a cap of some sort to keep out 'outrageous' users is a reasonable approach, but don't give us bandwidth we can't use.
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It will be interesting to watch how Altice handles both Suddenlink and Optimum. This is doubly true if they handle them differently. I'm on Altice/Optimum. They are directly competing with Verizon FiOS for much of their territory out east. I pay $80 for 200/35. There is no cap. Heavy users get "traffic shaped". By that I mean that the week when I uploaded a 100GB photo archive up to a web service, speeds started at my upload of 35Mb/s but settled down to 10Mb/s after a couple of minutes. IIRC I could still
NextLight Fiber (Score:2)
City started running fiber to the house. Gig up and down, no cap, and $55 a month.
I don't really use that much bandwidth but it's $80 cheaper than Comcast at 117/26 using their Blast service.
[John]
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Doing a video upload to youtube and having the upload complete before I can finish typing the description in the video is also pretty nice.
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I haven't done any videos recently but it is about that time as I've been working on BB King's The Thrill is Gone, so I'll see how that goes.
[John]
I have a cap (sort of) (Score:1)
Singtel 10GBE (Score:1)
Uncapped; I really only get about 4Gbit/s down and 2.5Gbit/s up though.
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4G in Switzerland (Score:1)
BC, Canada (Score:1)
Shaw
150 Down, 15 Up, 1TB cap.
Also $80/mo just for Internet. The competition actually has 150/150 Fibre but I can't say great things about their reliability or customer service.
ISP = Employer (Score:2)
It's a business VDSL line with no cap.
Also, Helpdesk bins all DMCA complaints (we're not in US).
FIOS claims not to be capped... is at 7TB/Month (Score:2)
1000 GB -- Alpine, Utah (Score:1)
Capped by slow speed (Score:2)
Being off the grid (solar), I can't leave a gaming-class machine on overnight...and the pi can keep up with DSL fine.
TWC/Spectrum user here (Score:2)
No caps, and I doubt they will be implemented. TWC already tried that in some of their service areas some years back and it went over rather badly with customers, I understand.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-po... [arstechnica.com]
Webpass, SF (Score:2)
How much does one need (Score:2)
I currently don't have a cap, but I have "barely broadband" speeds. I could switch to a faster plan that has a 1TB limit but I'm scared I'll hit it (we don't have cable TV, all our TV viewing is streamed).
Will the average family of 5 who stream all their TV hit 1TB in a month?
I am homeless! (Score:2)
NewWave Comm == Cable One (Score:1)
NewWave Communications had a 1TB cap on all of their plans (10/50/100mbps),which I'm not actually sure if they even enforced, as I never used that much data in a month. A week or two ago, NewWave was purchased by Cable One, which only has a 300GB data cap for their 100mbps service. I've read that if you go over their data cap 3 months in a row (which only takes barely over 7 hours of continuous full 100mbps usage), you are automatically signed up for the next tier of their service. I'm afraid of what the f
Pay For No Cap (Score:1)
Business connection (Score:2)
In Abilene, TX, I pay Suddenlink $80/mo for a 50/10 business connection with 3 static IPs. It's more expensive than the residential, but I always have the full bandwidth available to me, and they tend to be pretty responsive when there are line problems. I'd still prefer competition, of course, but I'd likely go with a business connection in any case.
5GB (Score:2)
Live in a non comcast land. (Score:2)
I also get 200meg down and 20 meg up for $45 a month. It's good to live in a non 3rd world state.... Specifically one that is not Comcast.
Living in a Hole (Score:1)
Lucky (Score:2)
In the states. I have symmetrical gig FTTH. $80/mo. Entirely uncapped. Been running Linux, BSD, and other F/OSS ISO torrents on it for months. Pushing about 1TB/week from those alone, aside from my normal bandwidth usage.
Omaha, NE -- Cox Cable (Score:2)
So yesterday I responded to this poll that I did not have a cap.... On the news last night they reported that my provider now has a cap! 1024GB (1TB) per month. I went to my account page and with two days left in my billing and found I was around 300GB, any suggestions on how to use up the remaining ~720GB in the next 36 hours?
Naha, Japan (Score:2)
1Gb/s fiber, no caps, and internet phone for ~7000 yen ($60) a month. And I get close to that in practice when I test against a server on the Japanese mainland. Not bad, considering Okinawa is a smallish island in the south pacific.
Google Fiber (Score:2)
Balls to the wall full gigabit, outstanding peering, low latency of 1.3mS to nearest site, 24/7/365
Throttled from 50 Mb/s to 5 Mb/s after 200 GB (Score:1)
Metered, no cap (Score:2)
My internet is nice and fast (220ish down, 50ish up), but I pay a $20/mo base and $0.20 for each gig used.
Some months it's great and cheap, other months not so much...
MCG (Score:1)
Decent deal (Score:2)
I'm here in Silicon Valley and currently using AT&T as my provider. The installers came and terminated fiber right in my closet. My current plan is 1Gb/sec for $70 per month, unlimited data. I'm very happy with my service and recommend to anyone else in this area.
Australia (Score:2)
No idea (Score:2)
Whatever it is, it's more than we've hit. I don't know if it's truly unlimited or just larger than we need. Pittsburgh / USA.
No cap for me (Score:2)
60/5. No cap. $60/month. Actually get like 70/6.
Luckily Charter can't do it for several years due to the merger. Hopefully they won't be able to worm out of the restriction.
Depends on how well my wardriving goes (Score:2)
What cap my neighbors have, you insensitive clods
Wave Broadband - 500GB (Score:2)
Wave Broadband: 250mpbs/10mbps, $80/month 500GB cap. You can spend another $10/mo and get uncapped though.
The big limitation is still upload speed. I really wish they would open up the upload pipe for backups.
45GB LTE plan for $15 (Score:2)
In the glorious nation of Kazakstan: 45GB LTE data plan with infinite add-on traffic for just $4 per 5Gigs
http://i.imgur.com/xzzGSjh.jpg [imgur.com]
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It really makes little difference to the ISP which of those options you choose, but I'd rather have the fastest connection and then pay for my actual usage. Why should cheap = slow, expensive = fast. They could give everyone fast with cheap = small cap and expen
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Except taken to the extreme the internet connection becomes useless. The data cap at the Best Western Atlantis Melbourne was IIRC $15 for 3GB for 3 days. As in, total visit, wired or wireless, all your devices. I hit that in a few hours, and there wasn't even streaming media involved, just the standard backup syncing of the pictures and video I'd taken for the day. The second day I complained to the front desk, and they said they'd "reset it" for me... which meant they allowed me to pay an additional $1
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There's a reason we call it "Best Worstern". That said, Internet service in Australia is extortionate [dailymail.co.uk]. As a result, hotels there tend to either have higher room rates to compensate, provide very slow service, or cap the traffic (or some combination of the above). Thank you, Telstra.
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Dial-up in Seattle? Ouch. No wifi net too?
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Comcast offers cable internet all over Seattle, but some people refuse to do business with them. That's their choice, but then to complain that they "only have dial-up" seems rather disingenuous.
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Yeah, no kidding. I don't like my cable ISPs too but I am stuck with the only affordable broadband service! I need speeds, uptimes, etc. :(
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since I live in Seattle.
They key to good broadband access in Seattle is keeping the string pulled tight.
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Hard to imagine dial-up is really a meaningful option in Seattle, I mean, you have to pay for a phone line before you can even pay for your dial-up.
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50 kilobits per second (I know the standard says 56 but I've never heard of anyone actually getting that) is about 16.5 gigabytes per month.
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When 4G was first introduced to the UK, you could use your monthly allowance up in a matter of minutes.
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Comcast is 1 TB now. They still suck, but it's a lot better than 300 GB.
https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fdataplan.xfinity.com%2Ff... [xfinity.com]
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Yes they're that stupid. I'm in a city in Ontario, Canada with Teksavvy. But since I'm usually only at home ~20 days a month and spend most of my time either at work, or traveling to remotes to fix shit. 300GB is more then enough right now, it costs me around $8/mo($50 vs $58/mo isn't huge) more to unlimited.
But rural ontario? Those guys get fucked hard. You could be in southern Oxford, Lambton or Middlesex Counties(the heart of SW-Ontario), which are all just on the southside of the 401 and have no in