en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | These are the kind of caps...
I'd expect on a normal U.S. / Canadian carrier.
930GB upstream cap is wild... that would be the equivalent of 3Mbps 24x7.
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bojean
join:2003-09-02
Quebec, QC
| i saw people account with 4000gb of download per month and ~90gb of upload in quebec, canada
With a 10mbps connection that's 24/7 doing the 10mbps cap, in download...
Not until you see something like this that you understand WHY they want to put CAPS.
Those guy were paying 65$/months for the usage of around 60 other subscription and saturatuing heavily the network! |
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TigerLord
Resident Pentaxian
Premium,Mod
join:2002-06-09
Montreal | 4Tb of data? |
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Cabal
Premium
join:2007-01-21
Boston, MA
| reply to en102
BBR Users Fail Math
These caps are equal to 3% of a user's upload 24/7. In Comcast's area, that would be 324 MB a day for 6/1 service, or 9.7 GB a month.
These caps are much, much worse for the service offered than Comcast's rumored 250 GB cap or the actual 400+ GB cap they currently use to remove excessive users from their network today.
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WALL_E
Premium
join:2003-05-28
USA
| reply to bojean
Re: These are the kind of caps...
said by bojean  :i saw people account with 4000gb of download per month and ~90gb of upload in quebec, canada A 10Mb connection downloading at its advertised speed would fall about 750GB short of 4TB in a one-month period...
said by bojean :Not until you see something like this that you understand WHY they want to put CAPS. I would understand this argument if ISPs were putting caps on users who were actually abusing the service. Downloading 100GB in a month on a 10Mb connection is not abuse. It's a way for lazy ISPs to pull in more money without having to expand the capacity of their network.
Not to mention the fact that ISPs have a tendency to hide what their caps truly are. This information should be readily available to users when choosing a service provider. |
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WALL_E
Premium
join:2003-05-28
USA
| reply to Cabal
Re: BBR Users Fail Math
said by Cabal :These caps are equal to 3% of a user's upload 24/7. In Comcast's area, that would be 324 MB a day for 6/1 service, or 9.7 GB a month. That's one way of thinking about it. Another is to say that, in this example, the provider allows its customers to download about 29GB of data more than Comcast.
I don't think percentages tell the whole story in this example. |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| reply to Cabal
The main difference is that these caps are on upload only.
Since there is no download cap, this may actually be fine better for most users. Uploading Youtube/pictures/video clips, it would take some time to hit 9.7GB on a 1Mbps connection.
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quintin3265
join:2008-06-07
State College, PA
·Comcast
 ·Verizon FIOS
| reply to Cabal
"The actual 400GB+ cap?"
I'm curious as to where you got this information. Is this just speculation, or is there a source? I don't see how it could be anything but rumor, because there are a number of conflicting reports about the exact numbers everywhere. |
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Warez_Zealot
Rural land of the rising sun
join:2006-04-19
japan
| reply to bojean
Re: These are the kind of caps...
said by bojean :i saw people account with 4000gb of download per month and ~90gb of upload in quebec, canada With a 10mbps connection that's 24/7 doing the 10mbps cap, in download... Not until you see something like this that you understand WHY they want to put CAPS. Those guy were paying 65$/months for the usage of around 60 other subscription and saturatuing heavily the network! Even I think 4TB in 1 month is just a joke.. Those people need to get a life outside of their PC... I only download what I want, and I don't hoard digital content like some fucked up pack rat nerd who has to download everything that is available on the Pirates Bay. It's because of people like that who ruin everything. |
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