There is no DSL available here for now. Only other option is dialup, maybe ISDN if we're close enough.
My whole issue was not so much the fact that there is now a bandwidth limit. If I knew about it, I would not have bothered downloading and testing Vista, etc. But the fact that I knew NOTHING about a limit, no warning about exceeding this limit, and nothing about our account being suspended. All the BS I had to go through with customer service, supervisors, etc. until I finally got to a manager that can do something. I bet they also have a big sign on their wall saying "BLAME THE POST OFFICE!"
It's pretty bad when even the cable guy thinks this bandwidth limit is bs (which he has never heard of either) and the whole thing being ridiculous.
My whole issue was not so much the fact that there is now a bandwidth limit. If I knew about it, I would not have bothered downloading and testing Vista, etc. But the fact that I knew NOTHING about a limit, no warning about exceeding this limit, and nothing about our account being suspended. All the BS I had to go through with customer service, supervisors, etc. until I finally got to a manager that can do something. I bet they also have a big sign on their wall saying "BLAME THE POST OFFICE!"
It's pretty bad when even the cable guy thinks this bandwidth limit is bs (which he has never heard of either) and the whole thing being ridiculous.
ultimatebob
Lifer
- Jul 1, 2001
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Yeah, 50 GB isn't much at all if you have a 3 MB/s cable connection. Hell, I could burn through that just by downloading a few 500 MB+ game demos, some Linux .ISO's and updating my video podcast subscriptions from iTunes.
Of course, Prolog's customer support has always sucked. When I lived in Pennsylvania, I dropped them like a bad habit when they refused to add modems to my local access number when I was getting busy signals all the time.
ultimatebob
Lifer
- Jul 1, 2001
- 25,134
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Yeah man, you're blocking the tubes! No wonder it takes the internets that my staff sends me three days to get there
A business class service.
They don't care how much you use, they just sell you a pipe and let you do whatever you want. But a home service can and should have limits. You can't have people raping the ISP and not pay for it.
Sorry, but you don't know what you're talking about. 50GB on your average residential broadband line is NOWHERE NEAR abusive. You'd have to be talking more like several hundred GBs before u can even begin to raise the flags, and even then it's still debatable as to whether it's abusive.
My Internets don't.
An old college buddy managed to put a terabyte through his in the span of one month (6MBit DSL, running full speed, 24/7)
Not even a phone call.
- M4H
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
My Internets don't.
An old college buddy managed to put a terabyte through his in the span of one month (6MBit DSL, running full speed, 24/7)
Not even a phone call.
- M4H
Wow, your buddy owes at least $59,000 for that month's worth of bandwidth.
No buddy, you look. Just because you cannot write (or read for that matter) don't get on my @ss for putting my thoughts into a well written post. I had nothing else to do while waiting for my internet to come back on yesterday, so I wrote down everything that happened. I stated from the beginning that it will be a long read, so if you don't have the reading comprehension, skip the thread. It is really not my fault you are under-educated and have no respect. Others have clearly read my whole "romance novel" and had no problem with it.
Originally posted by: dmcowen674
Originally posted by: MercenaryForHire
My Internets don't.
An old college buddy managed to put a terabyte through his in the span of one month (6MBit DSL, running full speed, 24/7)
Not even a phone call.
- M4H
Wow, your buddy owes at least $59,000 for that month's worth of bandwidth.
:roll: Please. In Socialist Canada, bandwidth buys you.
- M4H
Good story! Too bad most cable companies suck and theres little that can be done about it, besides them upgrading the system to handle more traffic. Most troubles I have had is uploading stuff, not downloading.
Why don't they put top end limiters like most cable companies do. It makes a lot more sense then a limit. I bet even with the limit the network slows to a crawl in peak hours, but if they had say a 350k/bs download limit it would be a bit faster.
The cable company in my area sells cable internet by bandwidth not total amount. In other words if you want 100kbs for just surfing and email you pay 30 bucks if you want 250kbs that costs 50 if you want unrestricted that will run 90. This makes much more sense then trying to limit total amount downloaded.
The cable company in my area sells cable internet by bandwidth not total amount. In other words if you want 100kbs for just surfing and email you pay 30 bucks if you want 250kbs that costs 50 if you want unrestricted that will run 90. This makes much more sense then trying to limit total amount downloaded.
Umm, what kind of seriously ass low end broadband is that? That's not broadband, that's barely above ISDN speeds.
50GB/mo on 3MB cable is limiting him to 6% of possibly 24/7 saturated bandwidth, that's not a lot.
If you got something and were only allowed to use it to 6% of its capacity, wouldn't you be pissed?
But, 50GB/mo is quite a lot, I was managing 30GB/mo on average over about a year on 1GB DSL, including questionable material, but that was before the advent of things like youtube, google video, and websites which allow you to legally stream media such as TV shows. Game demos and patches/updates/extra content were also smaller.
When I was doing 30GB/mo on 1MB DSL, HDD's were about 4x the cost per GB they are now (that was only 2 or 3 years ago!).
50GB/mo is not a lot in this day and age.
Lets not forget other services such as Steam where you can download games from the internet, legally. Or Direct2drive. Or free MMORPG betas.
:thumbsup: an epic tale, almost like the Illiad
I recommend that you find an alternative provider. If someone else does cable, give them a shot (and be sure to ask about bullshat limits first). After that check out DSL. It might even be cheaper for you. If your down line was only 3mbit, you can probably find a DSL plan in the area with the same speed (and hopefully no bandwidth limit).
I'd start investigating now, and then I'd write a letter to someone high up on the corporate ladder letting them know that you're cancelling their service due to these ridiculous limits. Explain that a month's worth of normal usage would require a much higher limit.
Cox sent my household a letter about a decade ago. They were concerned that I was using so much bandwidth, but they never had any limit in place (and said so in the letter). Their concern was that I was sharing the internet with other people in the neighborhood with or without my knowledge. I cut down on gaming for that month, and then I resumed normal usage and never received another letter again.
I recommend that you find an alternative provider. If someone else does cable, give them a shot (and be sure to ask about bullshat limits first). After that check out DSL. It might even be cheaper for you. If your down line was only 3mbit, you can probably find a DSL plan in the area with the same speed (and hopefully no bandwidth limit).
I'd start investigating now, and then I'd write a letter to someone high up on the corporate ladder letting them know that you're cancelling their service due to these ridiculous limits. Explain that a month's worth of normal usage would require a much higher limit.
Cox sent my household a letter about a decade ago. They were concerned that I was using so much bandwidth, but they never had any limit in place (and said so in the letter). Their concern was that I was sharing the internet with other people in the neighborhood with or without my knowledge. I cut down on gaming for that month, and then I resumed normal usage and never received another letter again.
Seriously, the cheapest DSL plan in my area is 1500 down. The next one up is 3000. I don't know where the hell Zach is getting those numbers because it seems that he just plucked them from thing air.
MustangSVT
Lifer
- Oct 7, 2000
- 11,554
- 12
- 81
believe it or not.. i was bored enough to read through all that...
you sound like 15 -_-; or at least it could have been handled better.
but I say cancel it.
you sound like 15 -_-; or at least it could have been handled better.
but I say cancel it.
Uhm, use math the same way that Zach did?
Roughly it works out to 1.5 terrabytes/month assuming I didn't fvck something up
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