Major Tom
join:2002-04-05
Newark, DE | Cap starts today...Wheres da meter??? I got a meter on my electric line and a meter on my natural. gas line so where is the meter for my broadband line??? Until Comcast supplies one, I was told by an attorney that they can NOT enforce it. Opinions??? | |
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deblin
Dark Side of the Moon
Premium,MVM
join:2001-09-01
Middletown, DE
| Re: Cap starts today...Wheres da meter??? said by Major Tom  :I was told by an attorney that they can NOT enforce it. Opinions??? Hmm, I don't know. I'm no lawyer, but you are implicitly agreeing to their AUP/TOS. And broadband is not a right, it's a privilege.
I agree they really, really should have a meter in place. Not having one is disingenuous at best, but I don't know if you have legal recourse.
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Bodyslide
join:2000-12-14
Woodstock, GA | Or atleast show on our Bill what the previous months usage was.... | |
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AVonGauss
Premium,MVM
join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL
| Get a new attorney or actually give the AUP to the attorney so that they can read it for themselves? Its not a metered service (yet?), so a comparison to electric or natural gas is not exactly an apples to apples comparison. If you use 50 GB a month it is the same price as if you use 300 GB.
As for providing a report or indicator of usage, I and I'll be willing to bet most members here agree, yes they need to provide one. Comcast it would seem intends to do just that, they have already announced they will be providing a way for their customers to monitor their usage. | |
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rra
Advice
join:2008-09-19
Kingsville, MO | It will prolly just be a website you log in to. You will more then likely create a login id and it will give you an uptodate consumption report. 90 percent of folks will get nowhere near the cap. | |
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Major Tom
join:2002-04-05
Newark, DE
| You can not be held responsible for going over the limit without anyway of knowing how much you have used, and letting you know afterwards is not legal. For instance its like driving down a road with no speed limit sign and getting a ticket for going over the speed limit when it is not posted. | |
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| AVonGauss
Premium,MVM
join:2007-11-01
Boynton Beach, FL
| If you're going to play they legal game, it's not a limit for starters. It is worded in the AUP as a threshold and based on the description indeed it does appear to be used as exactly that, a threshold. I know you like to keep inferring that it is a metered service, but it isn't, at least not yet.
Your analogy is wrong for several reasons, but lets run with it. The speed limit is 65 mph (or, say, 250 GB) posted, the officer neither cares and generally will not influenced by the fact that your car doesn't have a speedometer or it's broken if they catch you going down the highway at 85 mph. More than likely, you will get a ticket for an equipment violation in addition to your speeding ticket.
Now, if you must have analogy, here is the closest one that I can come up with. Cellular carriers give you (x) minutes per month for a certain dollar amount. If you make most of your calls while roaming, beyond a certain currently unknown threshold, you will be flagged for possible termination by the cellular carrier as it costs them money to the other carrier when you are roaming on the other carrier's tower. This can occur even if you purchased 1000 minutes per month and only use 400 minutes in a typical month.
Does this mean I am in favor and advocating the 250 GB threshold? No, but its been there, at least now we know a number. If you are a Comcast customer and you are currently using say 150 GB a month, you can now stop worrying about getting this mysterious call from some top secret security office about your usage and get back to just enjoying your HSI connection and life in general. | |
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Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
Premium
join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
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| They can very much enforce it without having to provide you with a meter based usage system. That said, it'd be better off for them to provide one, but they don't need to.
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KodiacZiller
join:2008-09-04
73368
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Do you have a router? If so, use it. If you have to, then flash it with DD-WRT or Tomato for best results.
If you don't have a router, then download one of the many meters out there. Tons of posts around here about this.
Or you could simply calculate the number of packets sent to and from your computer in your head and convert it to bits and bytes on the fly. Not hard to do.  | |
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