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Unless this document is fake, Comcast has some explaining to do.
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I totally doubt that they're gonna explain much of anything. At best, they'll give out some PR department approved message that is supposed to make everyone feel all warm and fuzzy inside, but doesn't really say much of anything. At worst, well whatever, you're just customers and it's not like you have another alternative so you'll just have to deal with it if they say nothing at all and that's probably the better option anyhow since people will forget in a few days when the next thing they get upset about turns up.
Has Comcast ever actually claimed data caps were to relieve congestion? I mean, it's hardly like this is new news.
They could flat out say "Go and collectively fuck yourselves with a pinecone, there is nothing you can do about this" and it would be fairly accurate, I think.
They could flat out say "Go and collectively fuck yourselves with a pinecone, there is nothing you can do about this" and it would be fairly accurate, I think.
Think the idea is to make it so watching TV on the internet will cost as much as cable.
No clue if their 250GB policy isn't wide-reaching, but there aren't many months where I don't go over it by at least 50GB. I've never heard a word from them about it, and my speeds have increased (without being charged more) on 3 occasions in the last 5 years.
No clue if their 250GB policy isn't wide-reaching, but there aren't many months where I don't go over it by at least 50GB. I've never heard a word from them about it, and my speeds have increased (without being charged more) on 3 occasions in the last 5 years.
Pretty much, yeah. ISPs are very aware when they're the only broadband provider. Like where I live, I have DSL from CenturyLink and that's it. The only other options are cellular hotspots (no 4G in the area yet + horrible data caps) or a 56k POTS. Since I had CenturyLink before in other places, I was like, "Whatever, this'll be fine since they were always super nice to me and I got good service." Not here though. They're total jerks and charge like $80 a month for 10m down and 768k up plus plus a basic analog phone service. Not having options kinda makes businesses suck.
Data caps have always been about the $$$$$.
People have been saying this for years and years.
No explanation from comcast is needed. Everyone has known about this since forever. People who are shocked have their heads buried in the sand.
I'd be a forum troll if I got that
Data caps have always been about the $$$$$.
People have been saying this for years and years.
No explanation from comcast is needed. Everyone has known about this since forever. People who are shocked have their heads buried in the sand.
Eh, maybe politicians don't know. Still, nothing gets done unless people get shocked. So I'm all for people getting themselves shocked in this case.
Politicians are especially aware of this...they are the ones that help set up the gerrymandering zones that ISPs and other service providers (cable TV, etc) rely on to create artificial zones of monopolization to shut out adequate competition and keep customer's bills sky high. These data caps are nothing but a price hike scheme on top of that price hike scheme.
Well, obviously. I worked for a cable co at one time and it's just the best solution to an awful situation.
Scenario: Cable co has a 48Mbps pipe and 1000 customers sharing it with 1Mbps internet plans. This is actually fine most of the time because not everyone uses the connection at once. Everyone enjoys 1Mbps (usually).
Up to the point a few people start torrenting 24/7, it only takes 48 users seeding their torrents 24/7 and there's no bandwidth left for anybody.
The ISP can't apply / enforce a complicated acceptable use policy like "don't seed torrents during peak hours" or a 95th percentile agreement on a home user, so they just implement a data cap. The extra money they get out of it is insignificant but serves as a deterrent to over-use.
Apply the same logic to Netflix with bigger numbers for download traffic.
Well, obviously. I worked for a cable co at one time and it's just the best solution to an awful situation.
Scenario: Cable co has a 48Mbps pipe and 1000 customers sharing it with 1Mbps internet plans. This is actually fine most of the time because not everyone uses the connection at once. Everyone enjoys 1Mbps (usually).
Up to the point a few people start torrenting 24/7, it only takes 48 users seeding their torrents 24/7 and there's no bandwidth left for anybody.
The ISP can't apply / enforce a complicated acceptable use policy like "don't seed torrents during peak hours" or a 95th percentile agreement on a home user, so they just implement a data cap. The extra money they get out of it is insignificant but serves as a deterrent to over-use.
Apply the same logic to Netflix with bigger numbers for download traffic.
Well, obviously. I worked for a cable co at one time and it's just the best solution to an awful situation.
Scenario: Cable co has a 48Mbps pipe and 1000 customers sharing it with 1Mbps internet plans. This is actually fine most of the time because not everyone uses the connection at once. Everyone enjoys 1Mbps (usually).
Up to the point a few people start torrenting 24/7, it only takes 48 users seeding their torrents 24/7 and there's no bandwidth left for anybody.
The ISP can't apply / enforce a complicated acceptable use policy like "don't seed torrents during peak hours" or a 95th percentile agreement on a home user, so they just implement a data cap. The extra money they get out of it is insignificant but serves as a deterrent to over-use.
Apply the same logic to Netflix with bigger numbers for download traffic.
Somebody didn't read the memo. It's to be referred to as "Data Usage Plan." Report immediately to HR for reeducation.But... Data caps are for the customer's own good!!! Please think of the customers!
I have Comcast and go through about 1.5 TB on average a month with 120 down 60 up for 59.99 residential class. I've had them for 10 months now and the only other provider is centurylink.
Thankfully they don't enforce any caps in my area and it's been solid since day 1 with no outages or throttling.
I'm in an area with just Comcast and Centurylink, too, but I pay the same amount for 35 down and 5 up. Aside from upgrading to DOCSIS 3 (finally...) a couple years ago, Comcast has refused to upgrade the 30 year old copper infrastructure since inheriting it from the former provider. Outages can happen anytime after it rains heavily, which happens a lot around here in the summer. With a local monopoly signed off by the legislature, they have no reason or incentive to improve things. If it wasn't Jacksonville that Google Fiber was coming to, living in Florida, I would seriously start thinking about moving there. If it were the greater Orlando area or Bonita Springs, I'd move in a heartbeat.I have Comcast and go through about 1.5 TB on average a month with 120 down 60 up for 59.99 residential class. I've had them for 10 months now and the only other provider is centurylink.
Thankfully they don't enforce any caps in my area and it's been solid since day 1 with no outages or throttling.
Or the ISPs could just do what they should and upgrade their crap with the 90%+ profit margin.
They are not doing it to deter overuse. You can do that without stupid low caps that pretty much everybody is going to blow through.
The problem is that ISPs usually way oversell their services and then claim an "up-to" speed.
What they should do is guarantee a minimum speed and also let the customers know what they should expect as an average and also as a max.
That being said, around here I have never had any trouble not getting the up-to speed consistently no matter the time of day, etc. This is for Comcast and WoW.
They come up with the stories that if they don't have caps (at least Comcast) that everybody will suffer. In reality it is just a massive money grab based on a complete fabrication of facts that are non-existent.
So essentially oversell your capacity by 20 times and pray no one uses what they're paying for a reasonable amount of time per month.