weblearner
join:2004-01-20
Flushing, NY
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Re: Faster
DSL and Cable Companies can offer 1000mbits and we'll end up spending 10 mins online...Why? More and More Broadband companies are setting up Download/upload caps... It takes about 2 hours to download 1 gig of a divx movie on cable here...You can't watch many hours of divx movies online with that kind of download caps. Alot of people had their cable accounts cancelled for exceeding the download/upload caps... All this speed increase is just hype....
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AmeritecTech
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Houston, TX
| said by weblearner  :
DSL and Cable Companies can offer 1000mbits and we'll end up spending 10 mins online...Why? More and More Broadband companies are setting up Download/upload caps... It takes about 2 hours to download 1 gig of a divx movie on cable here...You can't watch many hours of divx movies online with that kind of download caps. Alot of people had their cable accounts cancelled for exceeding the download/upload caps... All this speed increase is just hype....
weblearner
SBC does not have download caps.
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rchandra
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| said by AmeritecTech :
SBC does not have download caps.
...yet. We'll see. |
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AmeritecTech
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| said by rchandra :
said by AmeritecTech :
SBC does not have download caps.
...yet. We'll see.
I'm not aware of any DSL providers in the US that have implemented bandwidth caps yet. We'll see, but I doubt SBC will.
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rchandra
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| True enough...I guess I should have also included:
Many of these broadband companies are reducing $$$ rates and increasing bitrates, and it seems like they will be feeling a (lack of) profit crunch. Ergo, some have implemented per-month caps. I guess what I'm saying is, unless the upstreams discount their services even more than they have already, I look for this cap biz to proliferate throughout all residential broadband packages across all sectors.
I wonder if we can get someone to post some detail about non-NA (especially Korean or Japanese) operators, especially whether they impose any limits on their comparatively ridiculous speeds for ridiculously little $$$.
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AmeritecTech
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| Many foreign providers that I've seen offer much faster speeds at a much better price. I know in the UK in particular, broadband is not as popular as it is here, and companies have to slash prices pretty far to get buyers into the market.
I think the caps have proliferated as an attempt to get the "Joe AOL" customers, the guy who uses his broadband to get his e-mail and download Bonzi Buddy, and to discourage more sophisticated users from signing up who tend to use more of the bandwidth. The Joe AOL customers probably cost them a heck of a lot less in bandwidth, though perhaps a bit more in technical support cost.
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Rambo76098
join:2003-02-21
Pataskala, OH
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I dont exactly know what you mean by "download caps" but there has been a few times that i was capped at the wrong speeds for the package i was signed up for, which was corrected after i made a fuss and pointed out the problem, but this is probably something completely different. |
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AmeritecTech
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| said by Rambo76098 :
I dont exactly know what you mean by "download caps" but there has been a few times that i was capped at the wrong speeds for the package i was signed up for, which was corrected after i made a fuss and pointed out the problem, but this is probably something completely different.
Comcast, for example, warns you if you download too much in a monthly period. If you continue to download more than they want you to, they terminate your service.
From the post I was responding to:
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More Broadband companies are setting up Download/upload caps... It takes about 2 hours to download 1 gig of a divx movie on cable here...You can't watch many hours of divx movies online with that kind of download caps. Alot of people had their cable accounts cancelled for exceeding the download/upload caps...
Yes, SBC has speed caps, but not download caps.
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