Comcast replaces broadband caps with overage fees

[Fritzo]

Are those 0.5% using any more bandwidth than other users during peak (saturation) hours? No.

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Those .5% are usually maxing their connection 24/7.

 

[Aikouka]

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Those .5% are usually maxing their connection 24/7.

Your exaggerations are rather abounding today, Mr. Fritzo. I've gone over your 150GB (what you state the .5% are) plenty of times, and my connection is pretty dormant about 75-80% of the time.

 

[0roo0roo]

As already stated, that's mostly irrelevant the ISP has to pay for upstream bandwidth. The plans are priced accordingly. A small percentage of people would end up raising rates for everyone. It's much better for all to just charge an overage on the heavy users instead of spreading the cost around to everyone.

nope, because the cost or savings wouldn't be spread around to everyone, the isp pockets the savings instead of doing the upgrades it should have to do if it were supposedly under strain from traffic.

the line we keep hearing from our isps would be more believable if they offered top tier service compared to other countries, but the fact is we have slow and expensive broadband compared to other countries, way behind in fact, so there is no justification for their position other than abusing their monopoly position to simply make more money with no additional effort.

you have to be pretty naive to think they would price things accordingly thanks to the savings of bandwidth. they will charge as much as they can, look at the price of a text message vs its bandwidth costs on mobile, its been calculated it costs less for nasa to send data to the space station.

 

[Fritzo]

Your exaggerations are rather abounding today, Mr. Fritzo. I've gone over your 150GB (what you state the .5% are) plenty of times, and my connection is pretty dormant about 75-80% of the time.

I'm talking on our broadband service, which I assume is typical of any major city's broadband providers. Unlike more people that assume how people use the Internet, I have hard recorded data.