New Comcast Internet Data Cap

So I can either have a 1TB cap on my internet or double my monthly fee to maintain "unlimited" internet data. I already filed a complaint with the FCC. What more can be done?

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Way ahead of you!

>tfw running 6TB a month at 1Gbps down/up

>limited data
What the fucking shit

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Oh yes my friends!

My question is, where the hell is Google Fiber?!?

But me and and my 4 roommates only use 500 MB

...

not sure what UNCC ghetto you're living in lmao
We're up and running in Highland Creek

Everett, Washington

lmao you'll still get it quicker than raleigh will

Still, I'm sure a company as strong as Google could offer Fiber everywhere in the U.S. within a single year if they tried. How many of user use Comcast as their ISP? How is there not more commotion and uproar about this?

Pay extra for a business tier connection. It's what I did.

Service is better, no caps, they don't bother me with infringement letters, very reliable connection.

Sucks for you man, shouldn't have gone Commiecast

I have 3 gigabyte connection with unlimited downloads for 80 bucks a month.

they discontinued fiber

Unlike the U.S. government, I actually have a balanced budget. I can afford $50/month (which is what I'm paying now). For the same speed in a Business Connection I would be paying $100/month (the same as if I kept my residential service and paid the extra $50/month fee to have "unlimited" internet).

The only other ISP in my area is Frontier, and they max out at 6Mbps.

Move to Quincy if you want the fastest internet ever m8

What third world shitholes are you living in!?
I got 5gbs down/ 2gbs up unlimited connections that costs the equivalent of 14$ per month and it comes with free cable.

Jewgle Fiber is cancelled user
hope you weren't planning on that sweet high speed connection

Hey fellow 49er

That's like $100 a month here, no joke.

Fellow Everettboi here. Please kill me

>Live in rural Washington
>Have to rely on Verizon Hotspot
>CenturyLink is at "full capacity"

Almost half tempted to make my own cell tower.

>Cancelled plans for expansion
Fify

hope you enjoy that 5-way user

>It is important to know that more than 99 percent of our customers do not use a terabyte of data and are not likely to be impacted by this plan, so they can continue to stream, surf, and download without worry.
So...Why impose the 1 TB Limit?

I pay 200$ a month for 8 gb upload/25 gb download

>Live in rural TN
>Have to rely on Verizon Hotspot
>Literally paying hundreds of dollars for capped internet

Just fucking kill me, I have no other choice, there is nothing else out here. I can't switch over to another provider, they don't use towers in anything, but the cities.

Just file with FCC. They aren't allowed to throttle you or anyone's internet. If they can't provide the service they should stop offering it.

Your internet doesn't do anything if the destination doesn't support the speed.

Only ISPs aren't allowed to throttle traffic through them. The destination can set caps if they want to.

Google fiber is only as useful for connection to other people with google fiber.

Our internet is shit

no you don't. bits and bytes faggot. Not the same thing

100 Mbps unmetered for $10/month

Americans thinking they have free market is an even sadder joke than them thinking they have democracy

But hey someone's gotta pay for all those NSA datacenters

Not much. There is very poor competition there and likely you're stuck with comcast. I enjoyed the unlimited data while I was there but even in 2015 it was known it wasn't going to last.

1TB data cap is still pretty good. Australians get stuck with 200-500gb and after that get "shaped" to 56k speeds for the rest of the month. Also some of the ISP like Telstra include uploads in your data cap, not just downloads. So if you're on 200gb a month hosting servers becomes somewhat unrealistic.

Because they illicitly offer higher plans for more money.

These higher plans use the same lines that they capped for everyone else.

You can only go faster because other people are going slower.

This is illegal now.

I know that pain. I was fine paying a hundred for unlimited then verizon decided to change it so "unlimited" meant 100gb. Granted I barely go over that even with downloading games and streaming but it's annoying budgeting money PLUS data.

Because they know that files will continue to get bigger and bigger. Games are now 40GB for a standard FPS, smartphones continue to get better pictures, facebook shoves more adds down your throat, ect.

If you impose an upper limit early, when you know data usage is only going to go continue to rise, you are able to enforce that policy for longer and squeeze more and more money out of your customers.

I have comcast and it's shit. Mostly 'reliable' service, but paying $60/month for 60Mbs is bullshit. I only get ~30-40Mbs 70% of the time. Want to guess my only other option? AT&T fiber. 'High speed' fiber with them only achieves 16Mbs. 16 FUCKING Mbs ON FUCKING FIBER AND THEY CALL IT HIGHSPEED.

How are you getting 60Mbps for only $60?

Dude I wouldn't kill someone but I could probably hurt someone's feelings or embarrass myself for $60 monthly 30mbs speeds

All I read was
>bawwww I'm a poorfag can't afford what I want

Get a job.

>This is illegal now.

No it isn't. Are you newfags that weren't around for ACTA, SOPA and PIPA?

A two tiered internet has been on the books for ages. The US ISP are just testing the waters with data caps to see if the public backlash against such an idea has died down.

hahaha

Increased amounts of data need to be stored and cryptanalazed. Servers ain't free

And it's not just the data of Americans, it's all the data passing through American-tainted networks.

Someone must cover the cost, third parties being spied on can't be expected to do it. So the cost of internets for Americans increases as a function not of US traffic but of global traffic, which grows at a faster rate because penetration of broadband still has a long way to go.

Thus price increases while value remains the same or deteriorates. That's basic economics guys

Because I haven't 'upgraded' my account since my lease is up and was thinking of moving. I can get like 150mbs for +$10/month, but I have to sign a year contract. Fuck.

Pic attached is the best speed I've gotten.

100 mbits what? up and down? Up or down?

Also your internet is heavily censored and with speed only viable within its coverage area, so stfu.

That 100mbs doesn't do jack shit connecting to servers on the other side of the planet.

America is bigger than Europe and has far more intricate geography.

Looks like the jews got me too. Good lord fuck comcast and fuck nbc. Why isn't jewgle fiber everywhere already?
I need to download 70GB of Turn A Gundam goddamn these faggots.

You're an idiot.

FCC made it so ISPs can't throttle specific people.

Either everyone on the line suffers, or noone.

Comcast (or anyoen else) can't throttle people with slower plans so the guy with the faster plan can go faster.

Comcast also can't offer plans with inherent throttling.

The only thing ISPs can ATTEMPT to do, is cap your data. Nobody is going to buy a lan-line with capped data.

Go fuck an abbo.

Lots of companies are starting up their own fiber internet.

For example here in Las Vegas we have Cox internet. They recently released "Gigablast" fiber, it's something like 90~ a month, just taking them a bit to get it distributed around town. No data caps.

In my previous address we have the local power company decide to just up and install a fiber network along the power lines. CDE Lightband. I don't know about nowadays but back then you could get 200D/U for about 70 a month. I heard they now offer Gigabit internet but I don't know what they charge for it. No data caps.

Fiber is starting to get big, but only if your city does not have Comcast, TWC etc. If all you can get is one of those don't expect fiber for another 10 years, and when they do decide to release it expect them to charge hundreds for nowhere near gigabit internet with data caps.

>Xfinity

AHAHAA. Enjoy paying internet so other people can hotspot your bandwidth.

>Up or down?
Either way
>internet is heavily censored
Nah
>with speed only viable within its coverage area
What do you mean by coverage? We're not talking wireless right? If instead you by any chance think international connections are a bottleneck you don't understand how this shit works. Cables have reserve capacity for like 20 years, the real bottlenecks are the last mile and the device through which spooks do spooky things.
>America is bigger than Europe and has far more intricate geography.
Now this is just desperate

at least you can turn it off, but your average fuck doesn't know how to

Oh and before I forget, Cox is a pretty good ISP IMO. I've had them for years, and only one time has the internet ever gone out, and they called me ahead of time to warn me about the outage.

Pic related is what I have, currently this is the fastest you can buy from them without going fiber, which is not in my area of town yet. $80 a month, and to this day I have never speed tested lower than what I pay for 150/20.


....and again no data caps.

When google fiber comes I am gonna drop Comcast so fucking fast.

Hope it comes to your area man. A lot of areas have made deals and contracts with cities so that they are the only business around that is allowed.

Cox is is part of the TWC/Comcast oligopoly.

Don't get your hopes up.

The whole aim for TWC/Comcast/Verizon is to take over all the telephone poles. When they own the poles other people have to rent them.

My city has a Google headquarters. It won't roll out Fiber because Verizon owns all the fiber poles.

I use my own modem, so no, I don't broadcast a hot spot. Faggot.

You're a fucking idiot just like every idiot with Google Fiber.

You can't magically access the entire world with your internet speeds.

We let our telecoms get too big. The US is operating with de facto monopolies covering huge swathes.

Doesn't matter. You're paying so other people can do it to other people.

You're being charged extra so the line your on can be hotspotted with other people.

You have no choice unless you get a line directly installed from their datacenter to your house only.

Wow. I didn't even know internet connections of that caliber existed. I was on 5mbps down 1mbps up with a 250gb cap for like 60$ a month until recently because nobody could offer better/faster. A month ago I checked to upgrade and was finally able to get 120mbps down/20mbps up with unlimited, 75$ a month. Oh, and check out their new "deals". Fucking theft in broad daylight.

>pic related, the rediculous overpriced horsecock they call internet in my pleb third world country

File a complaint with the BBB and then make a YouTube video covering it with links and share that shit. You'd be surprised how quickly negative PR gets traction

Do you think I give a fuck or have another option? 16Mbs from At&t is not high speed and I won't use them. Can't get anything better until I move.

>hybrid fiber

wut

How did the poles even come to be owned by a company? What good results could possibly be expected?

Why aren't they owned and maintained by the Corps of Engineers for instance? Would save a lot of money, how many telegraph poles can be maintained for 100 bucks a month? One would guess way more than one

oh and remember, these prices do NOT include the 15% sales tax.

TFW we have no caps and faster broadband than americucks.

Nobody knows.

This all started when the US government gave ISP companies a shit-ton of money to roll out fiber throughout the country.

The ISP companies pocketed it and used it to try to acquire telephone pole rights.

invented marketing term. the average person here doesn't know the difference between a toaster and a tv anyhow.

So let me get this straight. There's some companies trying to jew people out of money by putting caps rather than improving their own service?

And to help this out they try their best to be the only ISP around via weird laws and what not?

>crying about 1TB cap

my ISP has a 150GB cap you cum inhaler

>people have home Internet with data caps
>I have 20gb LTE speed GB with throttled unlimited after that on my fucking cellphone
>I torrent movies on my phone while at work for shits and giggles when I forget to start them all up at home

yup. monopoly isp's are the norm in quebec (not sure about the rest of canada). There are a few little guys that try to compete, but the generally get bought out in a short period of time, or play along and charge more for less service. What really doesn't help is that the average person thinks that 1gp of internet is alot because muh cellphone marketing.

check this out. anything less than 75$ (86% with sales tax) is capped at either 25gb or 150gb

I was starting shit about it periodically over the last two years. Comcast rolled it out and tested in with a 300 GB cap in the South.

We weren't offered shit either. No unlimited option. Just billed the fuck to death. Since they have a monopoly here, I tried switching back to to DSL, but local provider has gone to shit so I had to switch to Comcast Business. It's a better fit for me, but it's pricey.

It's what I had to do. Comcast Business actually has good, maybe even great costumer service.

Right now, ISPs (especially Cable companies) are offering higher speeds then their lines can handle.

Lets say a line offers 10gbits total.

Comcast splits that up into 50mbit packages.

They use up the entire line.

"Hmm, how can we make MORE money without installing more lines?"

They offer packages for higher speeds even though the line is already full.

This is now illegal, and you can simply file with the FCC. Enough complaints will get the ISP fined.

>Trying to fight modern telecom monopolies
You literally can't.
We have to wait for another Big Bell breakup. But we won't learn from it.

Is this for every subscriber or is this just for people on certain plans?

The only thing businesses care about is negative press.

Fucking MURDER their twitter with rage posts. Their social media will be on you in 15 minutes to suck your dick.

>rural TN

Dude move tf out of there? ... I mean unless your a farmer and need to be there?

just take the cap for now unless you do some heavy usage. 1TB is a fuck ton. that would take days of continuous downloading even on a torrent.

Monopolies.
Also your country is literally 1% the size of ours, which means we have a whole fucking lot more lines and routers and repeaters to use.

>mfw all burgers call me a yuropoor when i pay only 30€ a month for 100mbps cable and unlimited 50mbps 4g plus tv
And the funniest part is that there are no other cable companies available in my area

Why so salty

When I download torrents I have to throttle them down because the hard drive heats up a bit too much for my liking. Saturating the channel is not otherwise much of a challenge.

100Mbps is not even a lot, gigabit speeds are routine in big cities here and universal in some countries.
>You can't magically access the entire world
To make you even saltier, I can have good ping with both Europe and Far East because sitting on the shortest route. But that's not pertinent to the peculiarities of American telecom market.

Yes. Now the result of that FCC rule is that Comcast will charge you an absurd amount of money for violating the 'cap' because they had the option to throttle network hogs taken away from them.

100$? How about non-existant?

>year of our god emperor
>paying for internet

This
Rural TN is fuckin based m8.

1Tb cap is enough desu.

I'm glad you have affordable high speed internet in your yurt.

Try using it to listen to some of your folk music.

youtube.com/watch?v=1rmo3fKeveo

You're just mouthbreathing because you don't understand your own claims.

Some context for burgers, there's two types of localities in Finland, Helsinki and bumfuck nowhere with drunk reindeer having knife fights on frozen lakes

One would guess there are many competing offerings in Helsinki so we can deduce this guy pays 30 euro in the middle of the fucking tundra

You complain to the FCC more, and if Comcast keeps threatening customers you file a class-action.

Kali linux meme

Oh shit you actually know what ur doing dont hack my fb pls

throat singing is pretty neat

This nigga probably still believes in Santa too.

I think this is an overreaction by Comcast to the loss of their ability to throttle speeds. It's much, much less severe than what was test marketed originally. They can only take this so far and hold out so long before Verizon crushes them as their network capacity in fiber and over-the-air increases constantly.

I will not forget the debt I owe to Kali for the money it has saved me and hijinks it provided.

>Google fiber is only as useful for connection to other people with google fiber.
You idiot nobody needs high bandwidth for communicating to eachother.

Things like youtube, torrents, netflix, servers, all use bandwidth.

If I had gigabit speeds I would probably build some sort of retarded large server for a game, maybe host my own 4craft or something.

Look at how glorious that man is. Wearing traditional garb, taking part in a traditional art form, in his traditional and ancestral home. I envy how at peace he must feel. As a mongrel with no cultural or religious traditions passed down to with me I am empty.

Tb or TB? 1 TB is a lot, I don't see how you could possibly use that much unless you have a server or stream for a living. Even as a NEET playing games and watching anime all day I never went over 75 GB or so per month