Bandwidth caps- let's share the pain

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#2  Edited By Hunkulese

There are already a ton of posts on this. 
 
But yeah it sucks.

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#3  Edited By KaosAngel

Only got 250 Gigs from Comcast for 30 dollars a month. 
 
I feel ripped off, and I feel your pain.

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#4  Edited By Romination

Mine is totally unlimited. Hoo, baby. I'm downloading stuff just to delete it BECAUSE I CAN

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#5  Edited By MooseyMcMan

Don't think I have one. Or at least my dad and I have never seen anything about that when looking at the bill or anything. 

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#6  Edited By TheSeductiveMoose

Unlimited.

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#7  Edited By endless_void

60 GB.
 
Unlimited people are fuckin lucky bastards :|

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#8  Edited By anarchyzombie9

God bless you my Canadian brethren!

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#9  Edited By DarkTravesty
@TheSeductiveMoose said:
" Unlimited. "
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#10  Edited By Reuben

Mine is 75GB and at 25mbps down and a 7mbps upload speed let me tell you it is hard to not go over -___-

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#11  Edited By Matfei90
@KaosAngel said:
" Only got 250 Gigs from Comcast for 30 dollars a month.  I feel ripped off, and I feel your pain. "
Only? I have to pay $120 AUD a month for 100GB (although they shaped me at 80 erroneously last month, wankers).
 
Bent over a barrel where I live (can only get fibre), which is only supplied by one telcom, so they gouge the prices.
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#12  Edited By CL60

Unlimited. Huzzah!

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#13  Edited By danimal_furry

This scares me beyond  belief. I am fearing the day when companies in the US start raping us.
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#14  Edited By killroycantkill

Unlimited for now, hopefully all that shit Canada is going through right now doesn't actually happen.

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#15  Edited By tobygw

Mine is a sad and tragic story I know. I pay 30 dollars a month for 200GB which is now changing to 25GB for the same price because of the laws. :(

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#16  Edited By Scapegoat

ADSL.
 
20GB. $60NZD/month.
 
/weeps

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#17  Edited By Xeiphyer

I assume the unlimited people are not Canadian.
 
Anyways, looks like the UBB stuff is going to get overturned pretty quickly. All major parties oppose it.

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200GB but this is shared between 8 guys... we always go over

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#19  Edited By TheHT

The CRTC has made me sad. L:(

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#20  Edited By lilburtonboy7489

unlimited ftw

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#21  Edited By Turambar

unlimited, though my upload and download speeds are pretty bad. 

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#22  Edited By Dedodido

My family used to be on an "Unlimited" connection with O2, then they disconnected us for supposedly downloading 60GB, which was actually a complete lie, since I'm the only person who even knows what bit torrent is and I was at university.
 
So, since all "unlimited" connections are actually severely limited and throttled in the UK, we're now on a 50GB Peak 200GB Off-Peak connection and all is well.

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#23  Edited By logicfracture

Unlimited.

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#24  Edited By BabyChooChoo

FiOS = GO NUTS

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#25  Edited By nintendoeats

I'm pretty sure I'm unlimited. But canadian internet is pretty slow, so there is a tradeoff

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#26  Edited By Doctorchimp

Verizon Fios says "this thread can suck it."
 
I personally feel for you poor bastards without a choice...

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#27  Edited By melcene

All these people who act like this is new... or that this is rape.  Rape was when we paid by the hour.   
 
I was a bit concerned though a few months ago about my 250GB cap.  But turns out it must have been a fluke or something.  That or I just blame updating 4 computers with WoW's 4.0 patch. 
 

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#28  Edited By McGhee

Maybe you Canadians should consider an Egyptian style revolt against your internet provider overlords.

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#29  Edited By wwfundertaker

Unlimited and i probably download over 120GB a month.

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#30  Edited By vinsanity09
@tobygw said:

" Mine is a sad and tragic story I know. I pay 30 dollars a month for 200GB which is now changing to 25GB for the same price because of the laws. :( "

Teksavvy right? I saw in that e-mail that people from Ontario would go from 200 to 25, I really feel bad for you man. I live in Montreal so I'll go from 200 to 60. fuckin CRTC 
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#31  Edited By KaosAngel
@melcene: ...how do you not use that much from Comcast? 
 
This one is mine. 

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#32  Edited By crusader8463

Right now I have a 1 MB DSL line from Bell Aliant and it is unlimited. After March 1st though god only know what it will be.

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#33  Edited By melcene
@KaosAngel: Yikes!  I dunno, I am just as surprised at how low ours is.  We have four people in the house that play their various games online as much as they can.  None of us really watch a whole lot in the way of movies and stuff online though.  I mean, that's what On Demand is for :)
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#34  Edited By crusader8463

How do you find your usage history? I have always been curious to know how much I use, as I'm constantly downloading something or streaming something 24/7, but I never knew how to go about finding out.

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#35  Edited By beargirl1

100 gb and i have to share it with my bro. fuck you videotron, you french bastards  

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#36  Edited By sweep  Moderator

Unlimited, but our service from Virgin has been so fucking terrible that it's almost useless anyway. I'm paying for 20mb/s and i'm getting about 4. I complained so much that I got 6 months of half price internet.

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#37  Edited By Garfield518

Here in Nova Scotia, all of Eastlink's services are unlimited, except for the fastest one, which has a 250gb cap.

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#38  Edited By melcene
@crusader8463: Not sure about other providers, but Comcast has that information available under your account information under Users & Settings.
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#39  Edited By mrv321

It's disturbing... it costs them $0.01 per gig you download. Even at the cheapest rate if your limit is 250GIG it will cost them $2.50 yeah that's right, the only reason why they do the caps is to
 
1. Advertise unlimited
2. Increase profit
3. Charge people for going over
4. Owned by TV companies whos revenue relies on people watching.
 
Last years costs put it at 3 cent, that's right for 1 GIG to be downloaded cost them 3 cent... a joke if you ask me. The only reason the government allows them to get away with this is so they can sign the shady  'Can we spy on your USERS' policy and because of the huge set up costs. The main reason why the huge setup costs shouldn't cost them too much is because the internet will be around for a long time and eveyr penny of profit will negate that over the years. IT'S A LONG TERM PLAN.
 
So do the calculations. How MUCH do you cost the ISP and how much would it cost you to go over. ALSO 3 GOD DAMN CENT! SERIOUSLY!

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#40  Edited By MattyFTM  Moderator

Due to the lack of a landline in my flat (and the insane cost BT want to install one) I use mobile broadband which costs me £25 for 7GB. It sounds bad, but it's plenty for general internet browsing & downloading small files (e.g. podcasts), and whenever I want to download anything bigger I'll take my laptop somewhere that has free wifi. It works for me.

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#41  Edited By tobygw
@vinsanity09: Yeah. But since Harper is reviewing the decision, we still have a chance.
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#42  Edited By Azteck

No pain here, bro. Unlimited all around.

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#43  Edited By Jrad

250GB right now, in Canada. For $87.95 a month.30/2Mbps download/upload.

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#44  Edited By yorick

Unlimited
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#45  Edited By mwng

Unlimited, but it takes me about a month to download 100GB. So I guess that's sort of a cap? Right?

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#46  Edited By cornbredx

I don't have a cap. 
That being said I work for several ISPs and know how heavily they are attempting to do this in the US. 
It will happen gradually, like most things, until it is normal I am sure. There are actually some places in the US that are already implementing this.
It is indeed a scary thing, just because I don't see the need other than to make the companies more money for no good reasons.

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#47  Edited By FritzDude

Did i miss something? Is there Bandwidth cap now? I have unlimited and will always have unlimited.

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#48  Edited By haggis

100GB, and there's not a month in the last four years when I haven't been within a few gigs of that (save for a few months when I've been out of the country some of the time). Once the 20th hits, I've got to monitor my use pretty closely. I'd love to have the 250GB Comcast limit. Heck, I'd even like the option to buy more bandwidth. But I can't. If I violate the 100GB barrier more than twice in a year, they've told me my service will be canceled.
 
I feel bad for the Canadians, but I suspect we'll be feeling the pain here in the States eventually. The cable companies in particular are suffering the continued loss of TV subscribers to internet downloads. They make more money off of cable plans and need some way of keeping people from switching over to internet video streams. True Internet TV cannot come fast enough, and with it the end of Cable TV as we know it. Faster please.

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#49  Edited By ape_dosmil
@MattyFTM said:
" Due to the lack of a landline in my flat (and the insane cost BT want to install one) I use mobile broadband which costs me £25 for 7GB. It sounds bad, but it's plenty for general internet browsing & downloading small files (e.g. podcasts), and whenever I want to download anything bigger I'll take my laptop somewhere that has free wifi. It works for me. "
Jesus. Can't you get Virgin Media fibre optic installed? You'd pay less for faster and unlimited.
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#50  Edited By Aronman789

I dunno, but considering that we share it across 4 people, and I never seem to run out, I'm saying unlimited.