AT&T Putting on Caps on DSL and Uverse

[Anonemous]

150 gigs/month for DSL
250 gigs/month for Uverse

http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/13/atandt-will-cap-dsl-u-verse-internet-and-impose-overage-fees/

http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Exclusive-ATT-To-Impose-Caps-Overages-113149

 

[Brainonska511]

At least they aren't completely unreasonable amounts, like 40 or 60GB caps.

Edit:
Paging Spidey. Please report to the broadband thread to blindly defend the policies of ISPs.

 

[Anubis]

the 250 cap matches what comcast has IIRC

DSL is so slow you prob cant reach 150 gigs anyway

 

[postmortemIA]

150gb might be reasonable today, but tomorrow it will not be so.

 

[uhohs]

fff, i've had att dsl for over 10 years, time to change providers. sigh.

 

[Anonemous]

Doesn't Uverse TV use up the bandwidth as well? I wonder if that counts toward the cap?

150gig is maybe a lot now but who's going to take the next step toward 100 gig caps or 80 gig caps.

 

[HamburgerBoy]

It should be 1.5GB/month, you dirty pirating commies.

 

[ElFenix]

D:

 

[Fingolfin269]

Doesn't Uverse TV use up the bandwidth as well? I wonder if that counts toward the cap?

150gig is maybe a lot now but who's going to take the next step toward 100 gig caps or 80 gig caps.

There is no way they can be counting Uverse TV against the cap.

 

[OILFIELDTRASH]

This has got to void my contract with AT@T right? I signed up for unlimited Internet through uverse. They can't just switch the terms without my approval. Or is this for new customers only? I probably use less than 20gb a month but it's the principal.

 

[Bignate603]

I could probably do ok on that. The majority of my data is from Netflix. The max HD stream (which actually isn't available on many things that I watch) is about 2 gig per hour so I would need 75 hours in one month of that to hit the cap.

 

[adairusmc]

This has got to void my contract with AT@T right? I signed up for unlimited Internet through uverse. They can't just switch the terms without my approval. Or is this for new customers only? I probably use less than 20gb a month but it's the principal.

http://www.att.com/u-verse/att-terms-of-service.jsp

Updates. These TOS may be updated or changed from time to time. You can review the most current version of these TOS at any time at: uverse.att.com. If AT&T makes a change to these TOS and that change has a material impact on the Services, you will be provided notice of that change. Your continued use of the Services following such notice constitutes your acceptance of those changes.

Yes, they absolutely can.

 

[Freejack2]

The only big one left without a cap is Time Warner?
Wonder what cap is going to be.

Hopefully not the 10gb?? they tried to implement in Texas.

 

[Anonemous]

I wonder how this will affect the gamers (PC and console)/HD Streamers/voip/tablet/laptop users who have multiple people using the connection.

 

[SAWYER]

Damn this sucks, iwe don't have cable/tv anymore and use netflix and redbox exclusively. There is no way I can stay under 150 gigs

 

[Texashiker]

My isp has a 10 gig cap, but its not a hard cap limit - but I do not see what the big deal is. In the user agreement, my isp can charge $10 for every gig over 10.

Even on high usage months my family "might" get close to 20 gigs. But we rarely get charged for going over.

 

[Bignate603]

The only big one left without a cap is Time Warner?
Wonder what cap is going to be.

Hopefully not the 10gb?? they tried to implement in Texas.

AFAIK Cox doesn't have one, at least not in my area.

My isp has a 10 gig cap, but its not a hard cap limit - but I do not see what the big deal is. In the user agreement, my isp can charge $10 for every gig over 10.

Even on high usage months my family "might" get close to 20 gigs. But we rarely get charged for going over.

$10 per gig? That's highway robbery.

 

[techs]

This is only the first step.

Next you will see the prices rise a lot for the 250 gb. capped service, and the isp's will introduce new lower priced service (at the price of current service) with lower caps.

It was a brilliant idea to start with 250gb since that's a pretty high amount for current users. Now they can actually get most people on a much lower cap by offering it as a money saver, while in actuality they can just price the lower cap at the same rate as the current cap is now.

Gotta love how bandwidth costs the isp's less and less every year, but they keep raising the price.

 

[Wordplay]

AT&T will also charge overage fees of $10 for every additional 50GB of data, with two grace periods to start out -- in other words, the third month you go over the cap is when you'll get charged.

That doesn't seem bad at all really. They also give you two months of "oops I went over" before they start charging that.

I honestly would of gotten their DSL and DirectTV package but they wanted a deposit and I live in an apartment. Would've saved me over $40 a month going that route.

 

[BudAshes]

This is only the first step.

Next you will see the prices rise a lot for the 250 gb. capped service, and the isp's will introduce new lower priced service (at the price of current service) with lower caps.

It was a brilliant idea to start with 250gb since that's a pretty high amount for current users. Now they can actually get most people on a much lower cap by offering it as a money saver, while in actuality they can just price the lower cap at the same rate as the current cap is now.

Gotta love how bandwidth costs the isp's less and less every year, but they keep raising the price.

It's because they have to higher more people to listen to you complain about the high prices.

 

[mizzou]

glad I'm not on contract with ATT< which is the only reason I signed up for UVERSE honestly because the free installation was awesome (new phone lines, jacks etc.)

Here I come cable network! :UGGGH:

 

[Aves]

Shouldn't be a problem since I can't seem to get above 1.5Mb/s on my 6Mb/s AT&T DSL between the hours of 5pm and 11pm...

 

[Texashiker]

$10 per gig? That's highway robbery.

That is what lack of competition does, cost goes up, and quality of service goes down. There is only 1 high speed provider where I live, so you have to play by their rules.

 

[uhohs]

which providers don't have caps yet? verizon dsl? time warner cable? can't get fios here unfortunately.

 

[Brainonska511]

which providers don't have caps yet? verizon dsl? time warner cable? can't get fios here unfortunately.

My RCN service doesn't have a cap.