I hate caps, but we stream and download constantly. The only time I even get close to cap is when I go on an XBox or Steam binge, and that includes when there were three of us that were constantly connected to something. To run up 700GB would literally take someone having no life whatsoever Or maybe you were just uploading 4K videos of your 40m several hundred times a day
Unless Direct doesn't get the SEC Network, I am staying with them. My picture very rarely goes out and that is when it's on the verge of a tornado dropping.
I can easily use 100gigs in a day if I'm at home doing nothing (for example - if I decide to download a game that patches over the internet.. that right there is anywhere from 7-30gigs gone). And I'm also constantly using the RDP program. Stuff like cloud storage isn't helping anything either. I've read plenty of sob stories from families that are affected by these new caps because their family of 5-7 averages about 1.3 TB a month.
But the whole idea that what a user uses total is somehow consumptive in any way is a fiction that they invented. If Bassman is downloading 1 terabyte of Lance Bass porn overnight, it in no way means less internet for me or you the next morning.
The cap is dumb enough - but its even more ridiculous that my speed (which is the 50mbps down 10/15 up I think) gets the same cap as those with the crappy budget speed. I pay for a higher speed cause I use more the internet a lot more - not because I'm made of money and why the hell not. So burns through the cap faster. Its also very idiotic that you're given the option to choose a lesser cap (and get internet at a discount if you choose to do so - basically for the old people who only use it for email), yet you cannot pay more for a higher cap above 300 gigs. We are just charged a $10 overage every 50 gigs.
It's a way to make money. Unfortunately the cable companies know their internet is way better than everyone else. I don't remember getting money back in the days when my speed use to drop at night because they had too many users.
My in laws have time warner (comcast basically) and I have them for Internet and their hd signal sucks, their receiver interface sucks, and they have by far the worst customer service of any company I've ever encountered. I know jay has had some problems with dish, but dish is night and day different. Also I can record something like 1,000 hours of hd tv and my in laws like 50. I used to have direct tv and dish is pretty much the same sans the nfl ticket
Comcast is gonna get ****ed if they don't adapt to the change in technology - using 300gigs 5-7 years ago probably was extremely rare.. but now anyone with a smart tv or xbox can probably do it. With companies like Verizon and Google joining in on the internet market, they are gonna get rocked. I would be gone if there was another viable alternative. It should be illegal to do what they're doing - but the old men in Washington are too ignorant when it comes to today's technology.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/tech/2014/05/01/google-fiber-nashville-next-steps/8563317/ Nashville is one step closer to getting Google Fiber. If it comes than I'm ditching Comcast internet for good.
They are gouging due to the fact it's a monopoly in this area and many areas. There are literally no other viable high speed Internet options where I live. They already tried to slow down people's Internet during peak times if they were using a lot of bandwidth - and they got raped in ass in court for that - think Verizon did as well with their phone service.
theyve build via acquisition and every one had to deal with HSR and FCC regarding antitrust. Being the only broadband in the middle of nowhere is probably the only way it can exist. Be practical when you're acting silly. Oh, and I can't stand Comcast. For my personal stuff, they've been fine. Commercial terms - the idiots told me that there are no SLAs for a commercial setup, so I'm not just a fanboy. I just think you sound ridiculous.
