That sucks, hopefully they don't place them on existing customers (a guy can dream)https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ng-usage-caps-net-neutrality-violations.shtml
7 year ban from date of merger.
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That sucks, hopefully they don't place them on existing customers (a guy can dream)https://www.techdirt.com/articles/2...ng-usage-caps-net-neutrality-violations.shtml
7 year ban from date of merger.
Depends on where you live I think.
In Ontario Canada you can get 1.5Gbps down and 1 Gbps up from bell as their best fibre offer.
For Cable internet best you get is 1 Gbps and 30mbps up which is similar to comcast in the US. Limitation is Docsis.
However i've not payed full internet prices in years because I keep getting discounts on my packages.
i'm on a 500/20 unlimited cable connection now and I pay $24.99 for it.
Comcast imposes a terabyte usage cap on all of its service areas except the Northeast, where broadband competition is slightly more intense.
This seems to be more of a problem in the US than Canada i've been on a unlimited connection for years now.
Hopefully US ISP's wake up there is no place for data caps in 2018!
Do you only download like 2 games/month to a single pc? I think Shadow of War was 112GB ...and I have several games 40GB+I've got a 400/20 Comcast connection. So far haven't hit a cap but I do watch quite a bit of 4k Netflix and the family constantly watches HD streams of things plus 100-200GB's of Steam downloads a month.
My 50% off discounted comcast business @ 20/150 is about CAD $160/mo. That is already discounted 50%. My other option is like 1 up, 8 down DSL. LOL.Depends on where you live I think.
In Ontario Canada you can get 1.5Gbps down and 1 Gbps up from bell as their best fibre offer.
For Cable internet best you get is 1 Gbps and 30mbps up which is similar to comcast in the US. Limitation is Docsis.
However i've not payed full internet prices in years because I keep getting discounts on my packages.
i'm on a 500/20 unlimited cable connection now and I pay $24.99 for it.
My 50% off discounted comcast business @ 20/150 is about CAD $160/mo. That is already discounted 50%. My other option is like 1 up, 8 down DSL. LOL.
Until I redid my contract I was off contract at 50 down 10 up at about $10 US more than that. Once you add in my static ips, it's just under $200 CAD/mo.Damn bro that is rough!
I agree data caps are bullshit but how the hell do you use 3TB a month for home use. Granted I live alone but I even have a hard time hitting 1TB. I consider myself a extremely high user.
I've got a 400/20 Comcast connection. So far haven't hit a cap but I do watch quite a bit of 4k Netflix and the family constantly watches HD streams of things plus 100-200GB's of Steam downloads a month.
As it stands, Comcast imposes a terabyte usage cap on all of its service areas except the Northeast, where broadband competition is slightly more intense.
Actual competition is the real solution. Where there's a choice in broadband providers, the costs are lower, speeds are higher, and they have no/high caps.
What we need is a law regulating broadband in locations where there's no competition.
They should not be allowed to use caps if there are no other broadband competitors available. (384kb DSL and cell phone data does not count as competition)
If they don't like the additional regulation, then allow competition in the area, and when a competitor is available to 90% of the local homes, then they would be spared the regulation.
Do you only download like 2 games/month to a single pc? I think Shadow of War was 112GB ...and I have several games 40GB+
Netflix 4k uses h265 which requires half bandwidth of Amazon's 4k which uses h264.
I see it more as Greed is on a collision course for your Wallet.
I hear they have more internet out californi-way.
Which would be even worse.
As it stands now, last mile is already heavily regulated, and is why most areas have little to no competition. It is one of the great examples of crony capitalism. Local government controls ROW access and often limits line installs to one or two ISPs, everyone else is just buying bandwidth from them and reselling, which is why the prices are quite static. In other cases local government is the one that sets the "reasonable" price, just like with cable. Aka, regulatory capture.
In areas this has been opened up, such as areas Google fought to have ROW access, as they are one of the few with pockets deep enough to force their way in, prices dropped over night. Markets Comcast said they couldn't reduce prices and network was saturated for speeds, same month Google went in, Comcast cut prices and upped speeds. Another example being many areas in Houston where there are little to no restrictions, I have 6 ISP choices at my place, and pay $80/mo for 1Gbps/1Gbps.
Like I said, the US couldn't build a free market with both hands and a map.
New Zealand switched to regulated last mile fibre and now we have gigabit rolling out all over the show and shit tonnes of ISP's cropping up, like back in the ole 56k days. The local utility isn't allowed to pick winners or losers. How hard a concept is this?
Like I said, the US couldn't build a free market with both hands and a map.
New Zealand switched to regulated last mile fibre and now we have gigabit rolling out all over the show and shit tonnes of ISP's cropping up, like back in the ole 56k days. The local utility isn't allowed to pick winners or losers. How hard a concept is this?
You don't seem to understand that the regulations in the US created the monopolies we currently face. Regulations by the people = people win. Corporate backed regulations (the ones in the US) = people lose.
Right now. with all the other ISP's and such that SHARTer has been buying, I wouldn't be surprised if their rectum, err, spectrum services get clearly defined data usage and BW caps.It’s really weird to think of myself as lucky to have Charter Spectrum. No caps or throttling for me in my area. But 10 miles west, DSL or Comcast, 30 miles south Buckeye with datacaps.
We as a people straight up just need to figure a way to force these ISPs into no more data caps. Legislature against it seems the most sensible but lots of luck doing that.
AND you cant stay grandfathered into any old plans, any single change to your service requires a complete migration to the newer SHARTer plans, including a simple change of address as close as next door (apartment for example) will cause a complete account migration.For now. It was a condition of the merger that IIRC lapses in a few years.
What I have found is that most people simply do not understand much of anything their government does.