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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:09:00 No.17262499 View View Reply Original Report

>That feel when I wake up tomorrow and will have a bandwidth cap for the first time in my life.
>That feel when I looked at AT&T's bandwidth meter for the first time a few minutes ago and saw that I used ~250GB the last 3 periods, and I'm getting their 150GB cap

I guess it's time to start looking for a new ISP, though the choices in my area are so shitty. Feels bad, man.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:11:00 No.17262521 Report

Quoted By: >>17262554

Move?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:13:00 No.17262554 Report

Quoted By: >>17262573 >>17262609 >>17262947

>>17262521
>moving
>just for a new ISP

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:14:00 No.17262571 Report

Quoted By:

Is this an day cap though?

I used to have a 1GB cap 4 year ago....... now I have to live with a 25GB cap/month but it's only daily. I can download as much as I want at night.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:14:00 No.17262573 Report

Quoted By:

>>17262554
Where's the problem?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:16:00 No.17262609 Report

Quoted By: >>17262695

>>17262554
I'd leave my job just to get a better isp.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:19:00 No.17262658 Report

Quoted By: >>17262868

I'm glad I am not getting the cap tomorrow.

They are not capping my area. I'm on uverse with the 23/3 package.

The minute they cap me I'll be switching.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:21:00 No.17262695 Report

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>>17262609

Unless your job is a shitty mess you will probably find it cheaper to just pay more for an uncapped service.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:31:00 No.17262868 Report

Quoted By: >>17263292

>>17262658

I'm actually suprised they actually are not capping my area. I spoke to a tech on the phone a few months ago about the cap and they told me this and it appears to be true

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:35:00 No.17262932 Report

Quoted By:

>>17262499
Shit sux.

Last ISP who tried that here went almost bankrupt.

Free market is awesome thing.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:36:00 No.17262947 Report

Quoted By: >>17263002

>>17262554
I'd move to Europe if I had the cash just for the glorious speeds
Fakin America

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:39:00 No.17263002 Report

Quoted By: >>17263066

>>17262947

I think you mean Northern Europe cause the caps/service everywhere else are pretty shitty.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:40:00 No.17263022 Report

Quoted By: >>17263072

>mfw I used 150 GB yesterday

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:43:00 No.17263066 Report

Quoted By: >>17263111 >>17263200

>>17263002
Germany/France/Poland/Finland/Sweden = 100/100 fibre in big cities.

Hell its coming next year to my 80k shithole.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:43:00 No.17263072 Report

Quoted By: >>17263117

>>17263022

How? Remote server file transmission perhaps?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:43:00 No.17263077 Report

Quoted By: >>17263103

I can only download 5 gigs per month.

I pay 60 dollars for this.

Why so high? I live nowhere

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:45:00 No.17263103 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263077
Also, my highest speed is about 40K per second

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:45:00 No.17263111 Report

Quoted By: >>17263162

>>17263066

I forgot about France. the others are all Northern Countries. Also the price is relevant. I can have 100/100 fiber here in Southern Europe but it's too fucking expensive.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:45:00 No.17263117 Report

Quoted By: >>17263168

>>17263072
No, just my home connection.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:48:00 No.17263162 Report

Quoted By: >>17263250

>>17263111
>poland
>northern europe

Don`t think so tim, backbone is strong everywhere. Even in Slovakia/check republic ect.

Not sure about Spain.

UK is different story, but they are 5X state.

Its scary that USA ISPs pull that shit up since... they work together.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:49:00 No.17263168 Report

Quoted By: >>17263188 >>17263189

>>17263117

What I meant, is, how the heck did you manage to consume 150GB in a day? What sort of service will upload that much too you?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:50:00 No.17263188 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263168
Steam for example.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:50:00 No.17263189 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263168
Oh, just seeding. Although I could have copied arbitrary amounts of data to/from my friend with the same connection of course.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:50:00 No.17263200 Report

Quoted By: >>17263256 >>17263324

>>17263066
I got 100mbps fibre in my 10k village in switzerland.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:50:00 No.17263201 Report

Quoted By:

>>17262499
At least AT&T is not obligated to tell you, OP.

Comcast just throttles the shit out of your internet until you meet their cap, and I don't even know what their cap is, mainly because they appear to decide their cap on a whim.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:51:00 No.17263208 Report

Quoted By: >>17263261 >>17263295

I keep hearing about this cap. I have AT&T. I have yet to get any kind of letter regarding this cap being implemented. WTF? Hell, I still don't have a cap on my iPhone just because I had it before it was implemented. Then they're like, "well until you get a new phone you can just have infinite usage for the old price."

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:52:00 No.17263250 Report

Quoted By: >>17263352

>>17263162

>implying Poland isn't in norther Europe
>implying I mention the internet backbone

>backbone is strong everywhere

Prices aren't the same everywhere though. Minimum service in Scandinavia equals premium service prices in Southern Europe.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:52:00 No.17263256 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263200
Yeah with awesome gun laws, mountains and fucking godly chocolate.

You have nice country there.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:53:00 No.17263261 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263208
Like they damn well should, given that that's what they sold you.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:54:00 No.17263292 Report

Quoted By:

>>17262868

>Delay the U-verse data cap to entice DSL customers to upgrade to U-verse for a larger data cap

FUCK YOU AT&T

FUCK

YOU

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:54:00 No.17263295 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263208
Well, yeah, because they're contractually obligated to that pricing (since they attached you for a certain period of time).

For the landline, unless you went at&t when they were doing some kind of year long deal, you should get the notice on your next bill.

!AlmaWade1k

!AlmaWade1k Mon 02 May 2011 04:55:00 No.17263324 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263200
>mfw my ancestors are from switzerland
Y U MOVE TO AMERICA?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:56:00 No.17263352 Report

Quoted By: >>17263408 >>17263414 >>17263458

>>17263250
Yeah but look at taxes in Scandinavia, minimal wage and all that shit.

I hope you USA bros will vote with their wallets and their nazi ISPs will lose lots of clients.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 04:59:00 No.17263408 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263352

ATT was pretty clever in going about this.

They set the data cap just high enough that regular customers won't really notice it. And you pay $10 for 50GB of extra data.

But eventually, the internet will get more demanding and you damn well know that 150GB cap will slowly shrink over time.

Because AT&T are greedy assholes who have no accountability from the government because they lined every politician with wads of cash.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:00:00 No.17263414 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263352
We can't, though. ISPs are basically monopolies in their respective districts. If I dropped comcast I'd be forced to go to starbucks for their wifi.

Same reason why them canadians and australians are eating up their caps with silver spoons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:00:00 No.17263422 Report

Quoted By: >>17263504

But why are they implementing caps?

Are they having system resource problems?

Are they doing this to limit piracy?

There must be a reason?!

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:02:00 No.17263451 Report

Quoted By:

>3rd world country sandniggerstan
>10Mbit uncapped for 20$/month
>No government control of the internet whatsoever, you can download or even seed CP and nobody will do anything.
How's that land of freedom for you, americunts?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:02:00 No.17263458 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263352

The vast majority won't feel the caps (for now at least).

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:06:00 No.17263504 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263422

Because AT&T has a television service called U-Verse. They noticed the recent trend of people forgoing television for the internet (netflix, hulu etc)

So what better way to stomp out the competition than to limit how much data you can download. They want you to use U-verse instead.

It's all about the profit. Don't listen to any of their lies about a 'select few customers using up all the bandwidth'.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:08:00 No.17263533 Report

Quoted By: >>17263586

>That feel when I'm in the same boat as OP
>That feel when I'm on their 2nd lowest DSL plan and still go over 250GB a month
>That feel when I check and see this

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:11:00 No.17263586 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263533
I just checked and saw that message too
FUCK YEA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:17:00 No.17263710 Report

Quoted By: >>17263744 >>17263803 >>17263819

I live in a medium-sized city in Bulgaria, former communist and all.

My ISP is Optisprint, I get 30mb down and 15mb up uncapped. Never had any shit with torrents. I pay 21 levs which is about 16 dollars a month. If someone from my local network is also seeding something, I download it with anywhere from 8 to 10 mbps.

None of that ADSL shit either, Ethernet.

Im surprised as fuck to see that countries that are so much more developed than mine have caps on their traffic, what the fuck, this is not even available anymore here? All offers are uncapped.

Anyone have an explanation for this?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:19:00 No.17263744 Report

Quoted By: >>17263786 >>17263806

>>17263710
>countries that are so much more developed than mine have caps on their traffic, what the fuck, this is not even available anymore here? All offers are uncapped.

Major ISPs are fucking idiots

I can't wait to see how much this backfires at att

Hopefully people are smart and actually fight back by canceling the service

Anonymous

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Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:20:00 No.17263779 Report

Quoted By: >>17263848

>ISPs are basically monopolies in their respective districts
BAHAHAHAHA
Serioulsy? What horrible shithole do you live in?
The whole infrastructure in my country is handled by a single state-run company and all the ISPs are allowed to use that infrastructure.
Everybody in my country everywhere can choose from about ~20 major and a billion smaller ISPs.
I currently got 16k without cap(obviously), 20€ a month.
If any ISP even tried caps, it would go broke instantly, since any costumer is free to change ISP at any time.

Did you believe that stupid lie that a free market gives you any choice?

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:21:00 No.17263786 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263744
Not everyone has the choice to cancel if they want internet. AT&T has a monopoly in my area unless I want TWC.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:22:00 No.17263803 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263710
>Anyone have an explanation for this?
Capitalism

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:22:00 No.17263806 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263744
>Hopefully people are smart and actually fight back by canceling the service

For a large amount of customers, that's not an option because there is no competition, or the competition is just as bad or worse.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:23:00 No.17263819 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263710
The main reason is greed, but when you're talking "more developed" it tends to mean older infrastructure, and when it comes to technology a few years can mean a substantial difference in performance. Also more developed areas have higher pop densities, so you're spreading the already old infrastructure thinner than you would be in a more humble area.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:24:00 No.17263833 Report

Quoted By: >>17263842

>data caps

LOL MURRIKA.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:24:00 No.17263842 Report

Quoted By: >>17263902

>>17263833
>implying it's only MURRIKA

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:24:00 No.17263848 Report

Quoted By: >>17263882 >>17263892

>>17263779
Yeah, bro, me living in the US and believing in free market is the sole cause of ISP monopoly.

If it wasn't for my miraculous control over an entire country we'd have uncapped internet apparently.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:27:00 No.17263882 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263848
>me living in the US and believing in free market is the sole cause of ISP monopoly.
Well, everybody living in the US believing in free markets IS the sole cause of the ISP monopoly.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:27:00 No.17263892 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263848
I know man, it's not like ISP's are bribing politicians or anything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Mon 02 May 2011 05:28:00 No.17263902 Report

Quoted By:

>>17263842
Misery loves company.

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