Comcast rolling out cap naitonwide

[Syntaxvgm]

15 hours ago, AluminiumTech said:

Why does anybody use Comcast if they have this kind of behavior?

 

If a company in Hong Kong did that then they'd be out of business asap.

because they have literally no other choice. In some areas, they are the only provider. 

I do, I have one other ISP. Frontier. They cost twice as much for the same speeds. 

[Syntaxvgm]

Ok, their data meter is back up. For 12 days of streaming TV, I have used 280GB of data for JUST THAT. 

I used 842GB total data last month, and I wasn't even home much. 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/578q3z/what_data_usage_for_tv_streaming_services_like_ps/

[Donut417]

9 hours ago, Syntaxvgm said:

Ok, their data meter is back up. For 12 days of streaming TV, I have used 280GB of data for JUST THAT. 

I used 842GB total data last month, and I wasn't even home much. 

 

https://www.reddit.com/r/pcmasterrace/comments/578q3z/what_data_usage_for_tv_streaming_services_like_ps/

Maybe we all should just go get Library cards and read. Then not give these fuckers any more of our money. What are they going to do? Buy the library? Comcast business class isnt much more money if I recall. More people will just go there. They cant put these caps on businesses. Or can they? 

[Syntaxvgm]

11 minutes ago, Donut417 said:

Maybe we all should just go get Library cards and read. Then not give these fuckers any more of our money. What are they going to do? Buy the library? Comcast business class isnt much more money if I recall. More people will just go there. They cant put these caps on businesses. Or can they? 

comcast business class is much more per the same speed where I am at least. 

[Guest]

12 hours ago, kiska3 said:

 

I don't see why your complaining? I pay $100 for 2Mbit download(and 0.6Mbit upload) and a 500GB cap.

 

Because it's almost impossible to hit 500GB a month with this internet speed. the max is 650GB if it was downloading at full speed the whole month every day.

But for people with faster Internet it's a lot easier to hit 1TB a month. If I were to use my connection at full speed every day I would sit at around 7.7 TB a month, and my connection isn't that fast (25 Mbit/s). Now imagine people with a 100 Mbit/s conenction. they can use up to 30 TB a month.

The faster your inetrnet, the easier it is to use a lot of data. And it hurts those people the most if they get capped. 

[HeyYouOK?]

On 10/8/2016 at 1:08 AM, Michael McAllister said:

 

$50. Even more absurd!

Wait what? Its 30 for me, or has been for the last year or so...holy crap lol

[TheSaint]

This is all about protecting their precious cable tv cash:

 

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Report-Cable-TV-Retrans-Fees-Jumped-63-in-One-Year-138105

 

They are scared of Netflix, Youtube and any other over-the-top service that uses an open pipeline to give the customer choice, especially at a lower price. I'm sure that Charter, my local cable company will also push harder for this soon enough. 

 

What we really need is community owned broadband:

 

https://muninetworks.org/

[Wolther]

On 10/13/2016 at 10:26 AM, Donut417 said:

Maybe we all should just go get Library cards and read. Then not give these fuckers any more of our money. What are they going to do? Buy the library? Comcast business class isnt much more money if I recall. More people will just go there. They cant put these caps on businesses. Or can they? 

I have business class with my provider (since i'm renting a place at a motel for a few months I can't get regular internet) and I get severe drops in my speed when I download too much in a day. (5-10 gigs) Paying $70 for 15 mb speeds(rarely ever 15 mb).. no cable or any other package with it

[Donut417]

1 hour ago, TheSaint said:

This is all about protecting their precious cable tv cash:

 

https://www.dslreports.com/shownews/FCC-Report-Cable-TV-Retrans-Fees-Jumped-63-in-One-Year-138105

 

They are scared of Netflix, Youtube and any other over-the-top service that uses an open pipeline to give the customer choice, especially at a lower price. I'm sure that Charter, my local cable company will also push harder for this soon enough. 

 

What we really need is community owned broadband:

 

https://muninetworks.org/

I can break it down further. Im sure the shareholders are leaning on the CEO. Shareholders want that stock prices to go up. Maybe want more dividends, but Im not sure if Comcast pays dividends. America's contribution to the world is Greed. We have more greedy bastards in this nation than any other nation. Our investors dont look at the long term they only give a shit about the short term. Because at the end of the day, the Shareholders own the company.