Does your ISP cap your internet connection?

[NTDaws]

The state of Internet service in the United States is a bit of a mess. Unless you're a lucky soul in a Google Fiber neighborhood or a city with a municipal broadband provider, truly high-speed internet access can be hard to get. Even if one does luck out in an area where a high-speed connection is available, service providers can impose onerous restrictions on what customers can do with those tubes. Please vote above and comment your opinion below.

 

Dawson Wehage

[Orangeator]

I recently found out I do not have a data cap or slowdown point but I pay out the nose for ($50 a month) for a 30mbps connection (4mbps up).

 

Edit: It would take 3.16 days to download 1 Terabyte of information at 30mbps. So if I had a limit I guess it would be possible to reach it.

[Spork829]

On halfway decent 100/5 service from Comcast, and I don't have a cap...yet. I just got an email from Ting saying that they will come to my neighborhood with gigabit fiber service for the SAME price I'm paying now, if enough people preorder the service  for $9. I've paid that $9 for several of my neighbors already. 

[WkdPaul]

moved to Networking

[meenmeen1103]

I've got a cap, it's whatever I can manage to download per month on 13.5Mbps

[Orangeator]

7 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

On halfway decent 100/5 service from Comcast, and I don't have a cap...yet. I just got an email from Ting saying that they will come to my neighborhood with gigabit fiber service for the SAME price I'm paying now, if enough people preorder the service  for $9. I've paid that $9 for several of my neighbors already. 

 

Hell if I was in your situation I would have pre-ordered for the whole neighborhood. Lol.

[♠FlamieMeister♠]

RUNNING MY DREAMCAST WITH A 56K CONNECTION BOI GETTING THAT ANIME AT A QUALITY 1 PIXEL WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

Hell if I was in your situation I would have pre-ordered for the whole neighborhood. Lol.

Most people are doing it on their own or I probably would. 

[Spork829]

1 minute ago, ♠FlamieMeister♠ said:

RUNNING MY DREAMCAST WITH A 56K CONNECTION BOI GETTING THAT ANIME AT A QUALITY 1 PIXEL WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

But do you have the highest quality pixels?

[Katsunaka]

4 minutes ago, Spork829 said:

On halfway decent 100/5 service from Comcast, and I don't have a cap...yet. I just got an email from Ting saying that they will come to my neighborhood with gigabit fiber service for the SAME price I'm paying now, if enough people preorder the service  for $9. I've paid that $9 for several of my neighbors already. 

Can I be your neighbor, although I don't want to trade the lesser evil of TWC/Spectrum for Comcast.

 

I pay for 150/15 with Time Warner. I don't mind it, I just wish I had another option for internet other than Time Warner or AT&T. 

On average over 30 days (according to the built in thing in windows) I use 500gb a month. Most of that is the stuff we can't talk about on here, less than 100gb of that is actual legitimate usage of the internet.

 

[♠FlamieMeister♠]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

But do you have the highest quality pixels?

Yup

[♠FlamieMeister♠]

2 minutes ago, Katsunaka said:

Can I be your neighbor, although I don't want to trade the lesser evil of TWC/Spectrum for Comcast.

 

I pay for 150/15 with Time Warner. I don't mind it, I just wish I had another option for internet other than Time Warner or AT&T. 

On average over 30 days (according to the built in thing in windows) I use 500gb a month. Most of that is the stuff we can't talk about on here, less than 100gb of that is actual legitimate usage of the internet.

 

Im getting google fiber soon, and its gonna be awesome. TWC Sucks though.... I had to go down to a 100mpbs because Google fiber is coming in like a week or something to our house, and the internet keeps dying and coming back. FOR A WHOLE 2 DAYS THE INTERNET WENT DOWN, AND CAME UP FOR ONLY 0.5 SECONDS!

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Katsunaka said:

Can I be your neighbor, although I don't want to trade the lesser evil of TWC/Spectrum for Comcast.

 

I pay for 150/15 with Time Warner. I don't mind it, I just wish I had another option for internet other than Time Warner or AT&T. 

On average over 30 days (according to the built in thing in windows) I use 500gb a month. Most of that is the stuff we can't talk about on here, less than 100gb of that is actual legitimate usage of the internet.

 

Yeah I've been itching to get away from Comcast for a while due to slow speeds and terrible customer service (like, I have some real horror stories if you want to hear them). But now that I'm going to have a 1TB cap I need to get away like, now. My family uses about 3 TB a month...

[The Belgian Waffle]

I live in Belgium and I have 200/10. Pretty nice, tho, considering most of the people I know don't get 50/whatever

[Indus Monk]

I do have a speed cap, but with 100 GB data and a 10 down 1 up connection.I am just fine for my usage. For $30

[pagani123]

I have a speed cap like everyone else but not a data amount cap

[Orangeator]

2 minutes ago, AmbarChakrabarti said:

I do have a speed cap, but with 100 GB data and a 10 down 1 up connection is just fine for my usage. For $30

Wow... I have used 128GB since yesterday morning according to Windows 10. That's just on my Desktop. Lol.

[Spork829]

3 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

Wow... I have used 128GB since yesterday morning according to Windows 10. That's just on my Desktop. Lol.

Wait, how do you check within Windows?

 

Edit: Nvm found it

[Spork829]

5 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

Wow... I have used 128GB since yesterday morning according to Windows 10. That's just on my Desktop. Lol.

I wouldn't trust Windows 10 very much, considering that it's telling me my laptop which does not have an ethernet port has used 4GB of data over ethernet in the past 30 days...

[Orangeator]

1 minute ago, Spork829 said:

I wouldn't trust Windows 10 very much, considering that it's telling me my laptop which does not have an ethernet port has used 4GB of data over ethernet in the past 30 days...

That's super strange man. Mine says 4gb on Ethernet too and I don't use Ethernet. 

[NTDaws]

1 minute ago, Orangeator said:

That's super strange man. Mine says 4gb on Ethernet too and I don't use Ethernet. 

Do you have external adapters such as virtualbox or vmware running?

[Spork829]

2 minutes ago, Orangeator said:

That's super strange man. Mine says 4gb on Ethernet too and I don't use Ethernet. 

Weird. I don't use ethernet on my desktop either, I'll check there when I get home in a couple hours. 

[meenmeen1103]

10gb past 30 days on wifi, 0gb on ethernet. Would probably be higher if I spent more time on videos than reading material

[Orangeator]

5 minutes ago, Dawson Wehage said:

Do you have external adapters such as virtualbox or vmware running?

Yeah, that is probably it. I do have VirtualBox adapters in my network settings. Probably for Bluestacks or Ubuntu. Both are in Virtualbox.

[skywake]

My (Australian) ISP offers three plans:

250GB/mo @ $60AU/mo

500GB/mo @ $70AU/mo

Unlimited @ $80AU/mo

 

Because I'm on ADSL2 still I'm on 250GB/mo because I don't hit that limit. I see no reason to pay them extra for data I'm not using. Now if I had a fibre connection? I might start hitting that limit. But as it is my ISP, looking at their site, only offers one fibre plan with a data limit. And it's a 12Mbps plan with a 250GB/mo limit at $60AU. Which isn't too far off what I have now.....