Charter Confirms New Caps

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Yesterday we cited an anonymous insider at Charter who informed us that the company would very soon be implementing new caps. Today, Charter's Eric Ketzer confirmed the plans, and informed us that Charter's new, $140 60Mbps tier will not have any limitations. Speeds of 15Mbps or slower will have a 100GB monthly cap, while 15-25Mbps speeds will have a 250GB monthly cap. "In order to continue providing the best possible experience for our Internet customers, later this month we will be updating our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to establish monthly residential bandwidth consumption thresholds," Ketzer confirms. "More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows," he says.
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Having 10Mbps and living with 3 others this is a killer. 25GB a person is pathetic. Just got Netflix on the 360 as well.

If I can't find a better alternative is there anyway to monitor bandwidth on a Dir-655 in GB rather than packets?
 
Damnit! 100gb is crap. They better have some sort of meter that I can monitor or I'm sure there will be a way to get out of having to pay any overage.
 
LittleMe said:
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Guess I'm swtiching to FIOS. This is some bull shit. I've got the 16Mbps package and they're going to cap me at 250GB/month? This is lame.
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If you have the option of FiOS, you should have switched a loooooong time ago.
 
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Yesterday we cited an anonymous insider at Charter who informed us that the company would very soon be implementing new caps. Today, Charter's Eric Ketzer confirmed the plans, and informed us that Charter's new, $140 60Mbps tier will not have any limitations. Speeds of 15Mbps or slower will have a 100GB monthly cap, while 15-25Mbps speeds will have a 250GB monthly cap. "In order to continue providing the best possible experience for our Internet customers, later this month we will be updating our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to establish monthly residential bandwidth consumption thresholds," Ketzer confirms. "More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows," he says.
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What kind of crap is that, 99% of our users use 10gb a month and that's ok, but if you use anymore then you must be evil and a pirate and must be stopped! Comcast has some balls to say that almost everyone won't be affected but a rare few, just wait a few months when everyone gets Netflix to xbox 360, uses Hulu or any other program for high speed movie/tv watching. Hopefully by then people wake up and jump ship to someone else if they can! :mad:
 
I will be switching to our local DSL. $10/mo more for 6mbit less downstream, but no caps. No blocked ports either.
I could bond two 10mbit DSL connections for cheaper than Charter's 60mbit tier, and be able to download more than Charter's cap in less than two days on DSL.
 
Vito_Corleone said:
If you have the option of FiOS, you should have switched a loooooong time ago.
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yeah seriously. cable is dead. I wish these fucking cable companies would quit trying to limit bandwidth and instead spend some capital on upgrading their network. FiOS is killing everybody because they spent and are spending billions on their fiber network...they are killing the competition on bandwidth and prices...they did it right...cable sucks..
 
It absolutely blows my mind to see these cable companies are moving BACKWARDS. Bandwidth requirements for legitimate purposes are going through the roof and they are enforcing archaic caps? I think this is more about an agenda to try and maintain their television subscriber base and prevent people from moving on to streaming solutions.
 
At least until their OWN streaming solution that incorporates a new subscriber base is ready.
 
I have 5x computers in my house, plus the kids xbox. The boy games a TON....downloads lots of music, netflix's, I hulu often, the wife youporns often, I work on clients computers frequently doing tons of Microsoft updates, often download nix distros and various ISOs of Microsoft stuff for clients...
...I just looked at my Astaros reporting for the month, a whopping 92 gigs. I consider myself a waaaaaaay above average heavy user. Caps will never worry me.

before you bite your fingernails and fret all night long, remember that caps are put there as a method the cable company can lean on when they detect very abusive users, they have a rule in the book to point to.

Seriously, you have to be one of those 0.01% of their clients that sucks up 99% of their bandwidth abusers to show up on their radar and have them call you. And I'm glad they'd shut you off if you'd be in my neighborhood and on my node impacting my bandwidth.
 
Meh, my cap is 250GB and I rarely even approach it. I work from home 95% of the time, have multiple VPNs up most of the time, use Netflix/Hulu/stream daily, download tons of training materials, vids, software for work (lots of ISOs, patches, yadda), etc...

With all of that I didn't even use half of my available b/w this month.

Unless you are an out of control torrenter or spend all day every day on USENET I don't see how caps are anything to really cry about.
 
on cable networks, this makes sense, since it's basically shared to a much greater extent than a (semi) dedicated line like DSL is...
 
I wish FIOS was in my area....its coverage is so far spread out :(
 
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