Data caps have come to Cox New England

[Red Squirrel]

Data caps are putting us in the dark ages. This stuff needs to be outlawed, seriously.We are becoming more dependent on the internet, yet they are trying to take it away. If you pay for a service then you should be able to actually fully use it. I'm just glad my ISP does not cap. I rather have a slow uncapped connection than a fast capped one. I do around 200gb per month without trying very hard.

 

[spidey07]

Data caps are putting us in the dark ages. This stuff needs to be outlawed, seriously.We are becoming more dependent on the internet, yet they are trying to take it away. If you pay for a service then you should be able to actually fully use it. I'm just glad my ISP does not cap. I rather have a slow uncapped connection than a fast capped one. I do around 200gb per month without trying very hard.

What you fail to realize is you are becoming dependent on the intarweb, If you don't have intarweb then you panic, you don't know how to pay bills or likely write a check or mail a bill.

It's you who have become enslaved to internet access. I bet you couldn't live without it. Notice the link? You likely cannot survive without intarweb, to pay your bills, to pay your credit, to walk into a bank, to use a phone, to watch TV?

 

[Engineer]

What you fail to realize is you are becoming dependent on the intarweb, If you don't have intarweb then you panic, you don't know how to pay bills or likely write a check or mail a bill.

It's you who have become enslaved to internet access. I bet you couldn't live without it. Notice the link? You likely cannot survive without intarweb, to pay your bills, to pay your credit, to walk into a bank, to use a phone, to watch TV?

I'm addicted to electricity, water and heat (gas) too but you see me cutting back on them because they cost per unit. If this becomes the norm (or even worse), the internet in the US will suffer, especially ad content. Who the hell wants to pay for streaming ads and the like. Just another money grabbing ploy.

I'm surprised you actually showed up on this thread....I thought you were too busy defending the millionaires from getting a tax hike, lol.

 

[gorcorps]

lol

cox

 

[TakeNoPrisoners]

I don't even know how much data I use.

 

[dfuze]

Time to pull out that hacked/modded modem. 50GB is not bad if you have that senior citizen plan where you just do emails and pay bills.

Looks like I may have to jump to the new level to avoid any kind of overage, as a virus killed my PC, I had to reformat today (of all days) and am re-downloading BadCo2 and Team Fortress 2, combined for a total of 19GB

 

[Engineer]

I don't even know how much data I use.

I just checked my router and it reports 18GB from 9/8/11 to today (power outage reset the usage). No Netflix or stuff like that. Just a youtube and a few other things. Windows 8 download = 4GB of that.

 

[spidey07]

I'm addicted to electricity, water and heat (gas) too but you see me cutting back on them because they cost per unit. If this becomes the norm (or even worse), the internet in the US will suffer, especially ad content. Who the hell wants to pay for streaming ads and the like. Just another money grabbing ploy.

I'm surprised you actually showed up on this thread....I thought you were too busy defending the millionaires from getting a tax hike, lol.

Residential Internet will follow the same model as cell phones. Business Internet will stay as is. Residential web is but a pittance.

 

[Jeff7]

Welcome to the rest of the world. When I first got cable internet in 2003, the cap was 60gb/mo. Skip ahead 8 years, the cap is now 60gb/mo. Wow, progress. We pay about $50 for that too. My cable company only gives up to 125gb, if you fork over $100 each month. It's pretty disgusting that service hasn't kept up with technology. Back when my hard drive was only 40gb, that sixty seemed massive and unreachable. Now Steam, Youtube, even just my daily post-work f--- around eats up a lot of bandwidth.

Tin foil hat time. I think the caps exist because unlimited internet renders the cable company's other services obsolete. If you've got your Hulu, Netflix and Skype, then you don't need to buy television, premium movies, pay-per-view, and phone service.

Wouldn't surprise me at all.
Instead of paying >$100-$150 for Internet+TV+phone, I've only got Internet, which keeps creeping up in price as the months go by - now up to $53/month, for <15Mbps service.

College was great with the bandwidth restriction. 2GB/week. First week there, I wound up easily blowing through it within 2 days. Those who exceeded it were all banished to a shared 56k-speed connection, which usually maxed out at around 0.1kB/sec, at which point it was quicker to walk to a computer lab, download what you needed to a thumbdrive, and walk back to the dorm.




This capping stuff is also going to suck for top-notch porn sites with HD videos.
50GB/month? Hell, you could blow through that in less than a day.:sneaky:

 

[kamikazekyle]

Cox implemented this here in VA as well about half a month ago. The data cap is based on your current plan. Higher speed plans get you larger data caps. I'm on a Premier level, which is 25Mbit down with a 250GB data use/month.

This KB article has all the info on the various caps and such. It'll vary per plan and region. Even if your region hasn't actively implemented the caps yet, they have the caps already planned.
This should take you to the internet tools login page, where you can then access your data meter.

Right now, Cox really isn't doing anything if you go over the limit aside from trying to get you to upgrade your plan (not even throttling). I'm imagining this will change later on as they're just now rolling out this to their different service areas. How it'll change I dunno -- could be overages, throttles, a three strike rule, or something else entirely.

So far I can't complain since I've never hit 250GB a month, but my data use has gone up a bit with more Steam usage and my girlfriend moving in doing a lot of HD streaming. Like many others, there really isn't any other option for broadband. I "might" be able to get 1.5Mbit DSL from AT&T for nearly the same price as I'm paying for 25Mbit on Cox, but that's it. Certain neighborhoods have seen Verizon FIOS rollouts, but they tend to be isolated to the various pocket suburbian communities rather than older (pre 90's) housing districts or mix commercial/residential areas.

 

[Sephire]

These data caps are affecting US ability to compete economically.

 

[jlee]

Residential Internet will follow the same model as cell phones. Business Internet will stay as is. Residential web is but a pittance.

...what?

 

[dfuze]

This capping stuff is also going to suck for top-notch porn sites with HD videos.
50GB/month? Hell, you could blow through that in less than a day.:sneaky:

Law of averages states that most people will be done after only 100MB

 

[KMFJD]

My ISP has a 20gb cap , when you reach it you are throttled to 56k unless you pay another 25$ for an additional 20gb

/speed rarely reaches over .5mb/s
//only wireless isp