Comcast rolls out data caps to more states in the USA

Just a reminder, the following states now have a 1TB data cap under comcast
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
New Mexico
Western Ohio
Oregon
Tennessee
Texas
South Carolina
Utah
Southwest Virginia
Washington
Wisconsin

Are all on the 1tb data cap plan as of today, and you won't have received any notification except on your nonfunctional microsoft outlook email tied to your comcast account. Be ready for a bunch of sneaky overage charges.

I'm sure most of you know, but I figure it's worth mentioning because the data plan actually rolled out today, and as of today, it's been capped. Even if you're mid-cycle. (though you do have a grace period of 2 months of overages with no charges)

Other urls found in this thread:

customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/data-usage-exceed-usage
consumerreports.org/telecom-services/how-easy-to-burn-through-1TB-data-cap/
dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Usage-Caps-Expand-into-Dozens-of-New-Markets-Today-138239
twitter.com/NSFWRedditGif

I have a feeling this will go unnoticed by most of their consumer base.

Yup just got my notice in the mail. Mother fuckers.

It will, but it's still the beginning of a very very slippery slope of bullshit. Pretty soon we're gonna start seeing mobile data tier bullshit, and smaller and smaller caps with higher and higher prices for the same shit.

Uncapped Comcast in WA.

Sucks to be you I suppose...

I also forgot comcast has a monopoly in a lot of areas.

It's not like consumers will have much of a choice.

Look at the bottom of that list buddy. It just rolled out today. Check your comcast email.

I did all of my last minute data intensive things, changed my backup server settings to use more compression and backup weekly instead of daily, and switched Netflix and YouTube to 480p right before the end of the month. Also, I limited my brother's bandwidth to 6 mbps. I should be fine, I hope.

Is this comcast or spectrum? Didn't one absord the other?

This doesn't seem like a problem yet, but you'll all feel the pain when 4k is standard.

Anyone thought this could have something to do with the infrastructure being unsuited for millions of people streaming HD video all at once?

Not Spectrum. This only applies to Comcast Internet.

False. Capacity is not the problem here.

>Be ready for a bunch of sneaky overage charges.
customer.xfinity.com/help-and-support/internet/data-usage-exceed-usage

>We're offering you two courtesy months, so you will not be billed the first two times you exceed a terabyte, while you are getting used to the Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan. This means that the first two months you exceed a terabyte you will not be charged for overages, no matter how much you use during those months. You will only be subject to overage charges if you use more than a terabyte for a third time in a 12-month period. If you use more than a terabyte two times or less in a 12-month period, your courtesy month balance will reset to two at the end of these 12 months.

Americucked

>and switched Netflix and YouTube to 480p
I'm so sorry..

This makes me grateful for the things around me. I hope you have a choice in ISPs, if not then good luck.

TWC is not TW. Two different companies (this is what trips up people into confusion)

Actually, Washington has been at a 350GB cap for a while now.

And I'm still un-capped. It doesn't apply to all accounts.

Do you work there or something?

Nope

Further, I fucking hate Comcast. With a passion. But it's the only option I have.

>sneaky overage

I have at least 2 hdstreams going 10+ hours a day with 2+ torrents downloading while playing games. I've never even broken 250gb/mo.

If you're seriously usingmore than 1tb you are ABSOLUTELY doing shit you shouldn't be like hosting your own server.

For some reason Im still fucked in the tacoma area

Try satellite. Only option you have for cable maybe. (because of the deals your local government signs with them) Might be more $ and slower but........

My ISP is Cox, will I be fucked too?

>doing shit you shouldn't be
that's anti consumer right there

>Cox
>will I be fucked..
you just answered your own question

You are either exaggerating or lying. 2 HD streams at 300 hours a month would be 600 GB alone, assuming that the compression's fucking great.

I miss Tacoma. Click! was really good, unless you were on 6th between Union and Anderson.

Though Advanced Stream is pretty shit. Their "office" is on N. Proctor just past the bridge over Old Woman's Gulch, btw.

Nope. Too densely wooded. Which is fine I guess. Level 3 was going to bring fiber out here and would have ran it to my property line for $2/mbit for a 500mbit commit. But now they aren't.

>1TB
Does this include upload and download?

This whole data capping is a tired old meme left over from the mid 90's. Back in the early days of AOL and Prodigy network they used to rape customers on data usage. Then AT&T blew them out of the water with unlimited $14.99 a month internet. They just don't want to buy more servers. I use the fuck outta my computer with netflix, torrents, browsing 8 to 10 hours a day. I don't use anywhere near a terabyte in a month. TWC has been great.

Yes. Both upload and download are counted against the cap.

>capping broadband internet
Wew, why can't the FCC put a stop to this greedy bullshit? Why doesn't a "pro-consumer committee" exist to oppose changes that could hurt the consumer?
Not that a TB isn't enough, but this could easily be used as an idea to abuse consumers for pure profit
>TB data usage plan has began
>4 years later, Comcast weighs the average household data consumption amount
>lowers TB data usage plan to 500 GB data usage plan
>continues trend without modifying the price.
This is why I dislike companies like Verizon and Comcast, they're all business and because they've gotten so big, they give nearly zero fucks about the customer's needs and/or wants.

>This is why I dislike companies like Verizon and Comcast, they're all business and because they've gotten so big, they give nearly zero fucks about the customer's needs and/or wants.
Because they "know" you're torrenting.

In such states, the majority of the people this affects are stupid and don't care if they have a 1tb cap if it doesn't affect them. Time Warner tried to push data caps in NYC and New Yorkers said "Lol, you can take your caps and shove them up your ass."

It's not the entire state, it's a select few cites in said state. For example Houston has it but the city I'm in doesn't.

Good news then

consumerreports.org/telecom-services/how-easy-to-burn-through-1TB-data-cap/

Well done comcast
Possibly to make the caps more palatable, the company recently upped its data cap from 300 gigabytes (GB) to 1 terabyte (TB).

if 1tb is more than enough, why put it there in the first place

not giving comcast more money. since the data caps i'm cutting back all my services entirely. fuck media

>Terabyte Internet Data Usage Plan.
>Int
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>Data
>Usage
>Plan

Even legal is trolling the customers.

Pure coincidence, I'm sure.

He means piracy, moron.

Not sure why these company's are even bitching about this, Really how many customers use that much data?

i just really wanna know

who the fuck hits 1tb of data up or down

jesus fucking christ guys it's 1tb a month, what the fuck are you downloading?

it's up and down combined. If you stream any sort of content at all, good luck.

>Louisiana
> Maine
> Michigan


>tfw no Maryland

Ah well, fuck comcast anyway, FiOS isn't much better, but at least I get symmetric speeds and no data cap in any states.

>because pirating can use 1TB of data monthly
desu seeding on private trackers wouldn't use that much data at all, only if you're trying to build ratio, but even then, you might not always be uploading

I live in a family of four. We do a shitload of streaming and Steam gaming. Also, my dad does 3D modeling and uploads over 20 GB of ZBrush files to his company server daily.

i used to watch twitch.tv and kept three streams open every day and exceeded 1tb every month doing nothing rlse

If you stream any 4k content as a single person it isn't too hard to hit 1TB, if you have a family of 4 then even 1080p netflix or other streaming will easily be able to reach 1TB.

i don't sit at my fucking computer streaming netflix and hulu 24 hours straight. it would literally take weeks of that to hit 1tb. i also download all my shows, roughly 1gb a fucking episode if that, 13-24 episodes a season. there's barely anything that ever comes out, and i also limit seeding on public trackers.

really. who the fuck is hitting 1tb up/down combined

log it. i really wanna know, is this seriously a problem? i remember when comcast had the 250gb cap years ago, and never implemented it, if they ever did it would've been a problem. but 1tb? jesus fucking christ m8 that's still a lot.

i'd been a member of black cats games for 8 years and never even hit 2tb upload, now 1tb download.

3D animators use a shitload of data, not just with 3D models, but huge images as well as super high quality video rendering.

With most of the usa on 8Gbps or less It really doesnt matter

We hit 1107 GB last month according to Comcasts data usage meter. Our firewall reports 1102 GB. I'd say that the 1 TB monthly limit is actually a problem for families who use the Internet a lot.

yeah gl trying to convince people to buy faster internet when it means hitting caps faster. gg comcast fucking retards

>i'd been a member of black cats games for 8 years and never even hit 2tb upload, now 1tb download.
pretty sad desu, I'm on 4-5 private trackers and on just one that I have been a member of less than a year (11 months and 1 week) I have 5.15TB upload and 4.42TB download.

Throw in legit games downloads and streaming services on top of the private trackers and I easily average over 1TB a month.

pro tip: stop downloading torrents

There is zero torrenting on my network.

Not yet. I'm Cox too and I'm wondering when it's coming. The only other ISP in my area is ATT and they already advertise a 1TB data cap on their site. What fucking kills me is buying a faster service and paying more to ATT doesn't up the cap. What's the purpose of 100Mbps if you get fucked in the ass for actually using it?

4k youtube is 12-25Mb/s depending on the codec used (depends on the video).

So if you watched as a single person 3-6 hours of 4k youtube per day, every day (or averaged that much over a month) you'd hit 1TB just in youtube use.


Assuming you have anyone else on your internet and assuming they also stream in 1080p or similar qualities, you're going to have no problems breaking that 1TB cap every single month.

Does Att have data caps?

Yeah, they max out at 1 TB as well.

Why the fuck would you be watching 3-6 hours of 4k youtube?

Didn't know that. Better start watching my bill

Why would people be watching 3+ hours of youtube?

Is there that much good stuff on it?

they just added it since comcast did now they can get away with it

>tfw you live in ny
>tfw all your isps are data capless
>Optimum = capless
>Time warner cable = capless
>RCN = Capless
>Fios = Capless

Comcast will be forced to stay capless by pure competition

I'm a Directv subscriber. Does that get me unlimited internet?

Only in the states that aren't overrun by hillbilly-type people.

your service is to slow too reach a cap

New York City is the capital of the world, the rules are different here

I'm talking about averages.

I can easily watch 3 hours of streaming videos a day, i'm sure plenty of people can watch more than that.

On a weekend if i'm not doing anything i've been known to binge watch a whole series over the weekend just to finish it up.

Lets say I do that with house of cards on netflix in 4k. Netflix 4k is similarly around 25Mb/s, there are 52 episodes, 43-59 minutes in length, average that to 50 minutes. So 52*50 is 2600 minutes, divide by 60 to get 43.33 repeating hours, 25Mb/s*60*60=90000 megabits per hour multiply by 43.33 repeating for 3,900,000 megabits for the whole series. Multiply by 8 to convert bits to bytes and we get 312,000,000MB or 312GB

If I do that over 2 weekends and also watch a few hours of mixed 1080p/4k youtube/twitch/hulu/etc and you've hit your 1TB, especially when you throw in games downloads, and if you have multiple others also using the connection?

1TB is gone easily.

Internet online cord cutting house here. Started fully around 2011. Netflix/Amazon/Hulu/Plex Media Server. Big family of eight. Changing all content we consume to 480p still results in about 1.5Tb od bandwidth used per month. This is with drastic usage reductions on top of the 480p for any video content. A steam game can end up costing you an overage fee. We use Origin/Steam on five gaming rigs. Shit is crazy. I'll end up taking it up the ass for the same service for an extra fifty since it's still cheaper than business class.

I hope they die in a fire while being spit roasted by a peaceful BLM protest.

>Implying
I used 3 tbs last billing cycle just by streaming Netflix and youtube

My kids grew up on Jewtube. They have me by the balls.

>my NEET use-case is exactly the same use-case as a family of four streaming HD video

Get fucked, dumbshit.

over your head but i'd be interested in seeing how that worked out last i checked directv is dogshit tier slow compared to comcrap

DirectTV here uses Centurylink which offers the subpar DSL 10Mbit maybe 20Mbit if they bond both channels or can in your case. It's not even broadband technically. Upload speeds are at best 1Mbit. It's sad.

>Lets say I do that with house of cards on netflix in 4k. Netflix 4k is similarly around 25Mb/s, there are 52 episodes, 43-59 minutes in length, average that to 50 minutes. So 52*50 is 2600 minutes, divide by 60 to get 43.33 repeating hours, 25Mb/s*60*60=90000 megabits per hour multiply by 43.33 repeating for 3,900,000 megabits for the whole series. Multiply by 8 to convert bits to bytes and we get 312,000,000MB or 312GB

>who the fuck hits 1tb of data up or down
People who contribute over the internet. Say I want to help test nightly builds for Fedora. There's 12 isos. 32 bit and 64 bit for each so that's 24. My guess for average size is 1.5GB. That's over 1TB a month already.

Data caps fuck over the people who make the internet worth being connected to.

This too, I forgot about my arch ISOs I am distributing, easily a few hundred GB per month.

>people are actually humoring someone whose argument is "it doesn't affect me, so it doesn't affect anyone!"

precisely this is why i'm cutting back all my comcast services they want to pinch heavy data users then i'll pinch them back

but it's not even about that. it's obviously a long term strategy to curb the competing streaming services.

in the end i'm reminded the internet is turning into cable tv 2.0 right around this time i check out and find a better use of my time. comcast ruined the internet.

West Virginia here, the only tow isps in my area have a data cap of 330GB per month, and 300GB per month. Thats with the 50mbps plan so its not the budget one.
with a relatives botneted laptop and all of their iphones and ipads with a million apps running we sometimes blow though the cap within the first week.

Im , with my isps, the problem is that they are both cable companies and they are buttmad that nobody wants to watch the shit tier tv anymore with its 25% commercials.
They try to make people bundle their internet with cable tv and a fucking landline so that they can justify having all of this archaic shit still hooked up on their grid.

The isp is complete shit too, at one point I was getting ddosed for several hours every single day. Phone support only wanted to try to reset the router literally 10 times then tell me the router is just defective and I need to schedule a field tech to come replace it, I then go into the local office with the fucking router logs showing a clear ddos attack, after an hour of arguing with him, he finally says
oh I know what this is" and then tries to tell me its because the fbi shut down that russian dns botnet.
fucking idiot piece of shit company.

Theyve tricked my grandparents into going to walmart and buying new routers twice, the router is separate from the modem and the modem wasn't putting out signal because a tech hooked it up wrong and left without testing anything. They flat out refused to check the modem and made them buy new routers for no fucking reason hoping by then the modem would just start working again.

>PA still not on the list
So when is this shit going to hit me? Why did they bring these caps back?

Because they found out that instead of upgrading the internet grid to match the current year, they could just throttle everyone back down to the 1990s and keep their same system.

this all day every day

college is fun

>Even if you're mid-cycle

I'm in a 2 year contract with them. They change ANYTHING about my plan, and it's a breach of contract.

>They try to make people bundle their internet with cable tv and a fucking landline so that they can justify having all of this archaic shit still hooked up on their grid.

Seriously what the fuck is up with this? The only way to get higher speed cable internet here at a reasonable price here is to bundle it with $80/month worth of bull shit.

No I don't need tv. I have internet. No I don't need your overpriced VoIP I can do that for free on the INTERNET I'M BUYING FROM YOU. Maybe throw in a $1/month call 911 button or something just to make me feel a little safer.

I wonder how much of their potential bandwidth is wasted over carrying hundreds of channels of 24/7 commercials. I mean at the top layer sure not much percentage wise. But once you get to the neighborhood distribution you're talking about 150+ times 5MHz per channel. Assuming they get the same density out of that as 802.11g that's 1Gbps your neighborhood could be getting. That 1Gbps is wasted continuously. So kill it and add that to the data cap already.

I just told you, they are cable companies and they are buttmad that nobody wants fucking cable.

Looks like you're going to get throttled like a slim throated bitch.

>That 1Gbps is wasted continuously. So kill it and add that to the data cap already.
also as a cable company, they fell for the digital cable meme in the early-mid 2000s. They bought literally millions(billions?) of dollars in A/V stuff and they are not going to take the blame for their bad investments. As the customers, its us that is going to pay for all of their cable boxes, encoders, and other cable networking shit.

Well, at least I'm okay.

My VOIP line runs about 4 dollars a month for 911 service and taxes local and federal. It varies depending on where you live. Illinois for example it would be around 6-8 in taxes per month for a phone line.

>People complaining about 1TB cap

I'd kill myself if that shit happened here. I need at least 10 TB a month because games are huge downloads, online gaming, multiple users on netflix, youtube and porn.

>Northeastern US and Mid-Atlantic region Comcast markets aren't yet being capped thanks to seeing slightly more competition
>...customers in Comcast cap "trial" markets face a cap of 1 terabyte per month, after which a user can either pay $10 per each additional 50 gigabytes, or pay an additional $50 per month to enjoy the same unlimited data they used to. Penalties are capped at a maximum of $200 per month.

dslreports.com/shownews/Comcast-Usage-Caps-Expand-into-Dozens-of-New-Markets-Today-138239

>Chicago
>today
>1tb data cap
Nigga, we've had this shit since JULY, fucking retard

>Wew, why can't the FCC put a stop to this greedy bullshit? Why doesn't a "pro-consumer committee" exist to oppose changes that could hurt the consumer?

Because Verizon and Comcast have the money to buy anyone.
You might say your morals are stronger than money, but would you really be able to turn down a million dollars or a 12000/month paycheck?

>This is why I dislike companies like Verizon and Comcast, they're all business and because they've gotten so big, they give nearly zero fucks about the customer's needs and/or wants.

Think about it. The very reason they are the biggest is because they only care about the money. New trend? Do it for the money.
Is something is unprofitable, but about 1% of your users really like it? Is it costing your company more money than what those 1% contribute? If it is...Fuck them.

I would not be surprised to learn the reason Comcast has shit reliability is because they're using 10-20 year old infrastructure. They could upgrade, but that would lower profits.

Because most people are fucking retarded and once they figure out their botnet infested fridge, dryer, and dildos are using up 500gb of data a week it'll be too late.

>tfw I live in a Houston suburb