Comcast boosts broadband data cap to 1TB

[GamersCouch]

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" Comcast's move comes as the Federal Communications Commission expresses concerns over how caps on home broadband service may affect online video competition."

 

Comcast is set to increase the data caps to 1TB... in other news, Cox increased their cap to 2TB last month! That's my data cap here in San Diego, CA anyway.  

 

[2FA]

Gotta put caps on data or else our limited supply will run out. Kappa.

[Fulgrim]

And here i am in the UK, with no cap on my fiber optic. For £12.50 a month, with line rental on top.

 

 

 

[jollander]

What the hell. ISPs in developed countries have data caps on broadband?

[2FA]

Just now, Fulgrim said:

 

 

 

Welcome to America, land of the second shittiest ISPs in developed countries just after Australia.

[GamersCouch]

3 minutes ago, Fulgrim said:

And here i am in the UK, with no cap on my fiber optic. For £12.50 a month, with line rental on top.

 

It's understandable keeping in mind population. There are ~65 million people in the UK whereas there are ~320 million people in the US. With that being said, I don't know anyone who uses 2TB a month. I'm a heavy user, and I use at the most 750GB, not Gb, of data a month. 

[The Benjamins]

2 minutes ago, GamersCouch said:

 

It's understandable keeping in mind population. There are ~65 million people in the UK whereas there are ~320 million people in the US. With that being said, I don't know anyone who uses 2TB a month. I'm a heavy user, and I use at the most 750GB, not Gb, of data a month. 

and also USA does have a land mass issue a lot of other countries do not have to deal with. but Comcast still tries to fuck us every second they can.

[paddy-stone]

No data cap here for me in the UK either, I pay £20 per month for large fibre VDSL + line rental also (upto 76/20) and I actually get approx 70/20 on my line. I used to get 16/0.25 with normal broadband ADSL and it sucked big time... download wasn't too bad, but trying to upload pics etc was slooow!! 

 

I think the speed I get now is fine, sure I'd like it to be faster and get gigabit speeds up/down, but not likely where I live to be honest... so am happy with what I have, it let's me game/download/stream at the same time even with other users on the network too

[Curufinwe_wins]

2 minutes ago, GamersCouch said:

 

It's understandable keeping in mind population. There are ~65 million people in the UK whereas there are ~320 million people in the US. With that being said, I don't know anyone who uses 2TB a month. I'm a heavy user, and I use at the most 750GB, not Gb, of data a month. 

No it really isn't reasonable. 

 

The Internet doesn't work on caps, it works on bandwidth.  

 

It doesn't even help isps deal with loading because peak bandwidth capacity by its very nature has to be numerous times larger than average usage,  and only average usage decreases with data caps. 

 

I routinely run around 1200 GB/Month even on a shitty 60/4 Mbps connection. 

 

Maxing that out over the course of a month would be about 20TB so a 1TB limit would be giving me 1/20th of my effective average bandwidth (only gets worse for people with better connections) 

[GamersCouch]

5 minutes ago, The Benjamins said:

and also USA does have a land mass issue a lot of other countries do not have to deal with. but Comcast still tries to fuck us every second they can.

 

This is what I get...

 

[Demonking]

fuck comcast 

[Lurick]

Just now, Demonking said:

fuck comcast 

In capitalist America, Comcast fuck you!

[GamersCouch]

2 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

No it really isn't reasonable. 

 

The Internet doesn't work on caps, it works on bandwidth.  

 

It doesn't even help isps deal with loading because peak bandwidth capacity by its very nature has to be numerous times larger than average usage,  and only average usage decreases with data caps. 

 

I routinely run around 1200 GB/Month even on a shitty 60/4 Mbps connection. 

 

Maxing that out over the course of a month would be about 20TB so a 1TB limit would be giving me 1/20th of my effective average bandwidth (only gets worse for people with better connections) 

I don't understand, you routinely run 1.2TB/month, but maxing that out over a course of a month would be 20TB?

[Curufinwe_wins]

1 minute ago, GamersCouch said:

I don't understand, you routinely run 1.2TB/month, but maxing that out over a course of a month would be 20TB?

Maxing out my bandwidth every day all the time is 20TB a month. 

[Demonking]

i have them bill be over $200 with me going over data cap of 300gb. fuck comcast. 

[GamersCouch]

2 minutes ago, Curufinwe_wins said:

Maxing out my bandwidth every day all the time is 20TB a month. 

You're only talking about hypotheticals. You also have to keep in mind that using their services uses energy, something that has to be paid for. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not defending Comcast. I wish there was no cap at all, but if I was running a business selling internet access, I'd run it to make profit. I probably wouldn't be as evil as Comcast, just a little evil... hahaha.

 

But seriously, hurry the fuck on Google and give me my fibers, it's good for my health!

 

[don_svetlio]

That moment when you live in a third world country but have vastly better ISPs than Amurica

[Nowak]

Yay! You still suck, Comcast.

[Curufinwe_wins]

17 minutes ago, GamersCouch said:

You're only talking about hypotheticals. You also have to keep in mind that using their services uses energy, something that has to be paid for. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm definitely not defending Comcast. I wish there was no cap at all, but if I was running a business selling internet access, I'd run it to make profit. I probably wouldn't be as evil as Comcast, just a little evil... hahaha.

 

But seriously, hurry the fuck on Google and give me my fibers, it's good for my health!

 

See but their services uptime is based on peal bandwidth not current usage. It therefore is of relatively no difference to Comcast from a energy use perspective if peak/ave is 1.2 or 10 assuming peak stays constant.  

 

 

[captain cactus]

Data caps are so 2003.

[TetraSky]

Now if only the ISPs in Canada could follow suit...

[NateGSR117]

My brother and I combined use over 100tb of data.  I am the one who uses most of the data ?

[SurvivorNVL]

I use around 2TB - 3TB, but thankfully Brighthouse doesn't care if I use that or a VPN, and on top of it all - Google Fiber soon! 

Hell, if I had a choice of Comcast, or no internet--I'd choose T-Mobile unlimited and just tether and say nothing.

[Just Monika]

/Glares at my 200GB monthly usage limit. ಠ_ಠ

[alexyy]

3 hours ago, GamersCouch said:

 

It's understandable keeping in mind population. There are ~65 million people in the UK whereas there are ~320 million people in the US. With that being said, I don't know anyone who uses 2TB a month. I'm a heavy user, and I use at the most 750GB, not Gb, of data a month. 

I could destroy 2tb in 2 weeks especially with my craving for Bluray quality.