@home 128k upload cap

[Khyron]

sign this petition plz even if your not with @home post and say why $35~$45 a month is not worth 128k uploads

http://www.petitiononline.com/athome/

 

[Khyron]

for those who dont know 128k upload is about 12k/sec

 

[spidey07]

because they use caching servers at each city. This enables them to serve 95% of the general public without the need for superfast uplinks to the internet.

35-45 dollars a month for the kind of bandwidth you are getting is nothing short of incredible.

 

[Edski]

Do you honestly think that they are going to change their ways because of this petition?

:Q :disgust:

 

[reicherb]

My dad has @home and gets about 1500k up and 500k down.

test run here.

 

[bex0rs]

I'd first petition to have them fix their email =).

~bex0rs

 

[PrinceofWands]

Forget it, the upload cap is set in stone my friends. Two reasons for it;

1. Cable infrastructure pulls in a lot of noise. All upstream traffic is gathered at the headend. Without the cap too much noise would flood the headend causing problems.

2. @Home isn't for servers. By capping at 128 servers are almost totally worthless.

For the money you can't get better download speed. If you want upload speed (or reliability) switch to DSL.

tier 2 tech.

 

[shadow]

SDSL to be exact.

 

[IamDavid]

Go with DSL and don't worry about it..

 

[pm]

I've been thinking about this a little.

The answer of "choose DSL instead" ignores the fact that a lot of people choose cable over DSL because DSL isn't available in their area or they are too far away. If you don't have a choice, then you can't switch.

I think @Home eventually should go to a two-tier system. The lower tier capped at ~128kb/s and the higher tier capped at ~512kb/s. Charge $40/month for the former and $60 for the latter. The problem with noise on the head-end caused by upload requests can be fixed by reducing the total number of users on a "node" and choosing a smart value for the second tier cap.

Currently @Home seems to have infrastructure issues and is trying to capture audience, but once this situation has stabilized a bit (a couple of years or so), then a two-tier system and minor investments in infrastructure improvements to support this should result in higher profits.

 

[Z24]

I'm using Cogeco@home (in Canada). My upload is capped at 320 or 384 kbps. I can upload at a max of 40KB/s.

 

[velvtelvis]

Intermedia has that here (Middle TN)

There is intermedia@home and intermedia@work. I don't know the specs and am too lazy to look them up.

 

[PrinceofWands]

Exactly right. @Home is for home, they do not want anything to do with servers or money making issues. They will NOT upgrade their infrastructure beyond this point, that's why there's @Work.

@Home/@Work was designed from the ground up very carefully. They planned the cap all along. It's a part of the system. After more than a year with the company and numerous meetings about expansion and change one thing has been clear from the beginning: @Home will not have anything to do with upload, it will stay low. @Work will handly all open upstream users (for a price between 120 and 3600 dollars per month).

Sorry guys, that's just the way it is.

BTW I know DSL isn't available everywhere, but it doesn't matter. @Home isn't going to give you upload ever.

 

[BigDady92]

Why don't y'all try Sprint Ion if it's available? 8mb's down 1mb up. 4 ip's 4 phones, unlimited local calls 750 long distance all for $150. A friend of mine has it and he says he has been clocking in around 10mps on slow nites...I am getting this puppy when it comes into tampa!!


sprint ion

 

[Wingznut]

I'm using @home with the cap... And I'm not so sure that I'm against the cap.

See, where I lived prior to buying this house, they didn't have the cap. And speeds were horrible. Now I'm certainly not saying that not having a cap was the sole reason. But I also believe that it can help.

Of course the ultimate solution would be for @home to upgrade their network sufficiently. But then I wouldn't see them staying at the $40 pricepoint, which is really a good price. $60/month is the cheapest DSL in this area.

 

[PliotronX]

It's a sad fact of (broadband) life. ISPs could care less about residential customers. Their major revenues are provided by business class connections. Just be glad you're not on 56k!

 

[Wizkid]

I just tested the upload on my @home connection and it's just above 450 kbps, or 56KB/s. This is in Orangeville with rogers@home (formerly shaw@home)... so I'm not complaining