Data cap issues?

[Xanthious]

Eh, it's not hard to go over 250gb in a month I promise. I was averaging around 300-350gb a month for multiple months on end with Comcast but for whatever reason never got so much as a letter asking me politely to curb my data usage. Hell I think one month when I had my brother living with me we ended up destroying the 250gb cap in the first 10 days. Still no letter or call or anything. I think the 250gb cap wasn't too strictly enforced to be honest.

As for how? I do a good bit of streaming and I also am a HEAVY user of Usenet. . . . . for totally legal and non copyright infringing activities only . . . .honest! XD

 

[Corax_1990]

Live in Australia and most of our ISPs impose a 'peak' and 'off peak' period for data use (no idea if that is the same in the states or wherever else), so I basically get a limit of 100GB a month between 8am and 2am and another 100GB outside that time. Unless I really try to hit that, it is very rare that I do just from my day to day use.

 

[Uber Evil]

Heh...my ISP has a cap of 50Go/month, really easy to break imo...


They also charge 7$ per exceeding Go , highway robbery version 2012

Edit: that's 50Go upload/download combined , not 50/50

Welcome to Canada !

I got 90Go per month, I use about 75% of it. I have more trouble with my cell phone cap, which is 2Go per month, and I often break it...

Go? Do you guys mean GB?

I did, Go is the french abbreviation

Gigaoctets IIRC.

I use around 1TB a month by watching hd stuff and using steam&origin

Lol checked my router and according to it I have used 250,36GB from 05/07/2012 - 07/07/2012 aka two days

ಠ_ಠ. You've been downloading at 1.44 MB/s constantly for that past two days. Why can't my internet be as fast as yours. . I only get a about 1 - 1.5 MB/s, whereas you probably aren't downloading constantly so your speeds are what, 3 or 4 MB/s.

Live in Australia and most of our ISPs impose a 'peak' and 'off peak' period for data use (no idea if that is the same in the states or wherever else), so I basically get a limit of 100GB a month between 8am and 2am and another 100GB outside that time. Unless I really try to hit that, it is very rare that I do just from my day to day use.

I'm pretty sure most of the US doesn't have data caps for home internet. The only data caps here I've heard about are with Cell Phones/Mobiles.

 

[renegade7]

AT&T doesn't even give us a fast enough connection (despite that we pay for one) for us to even approach our data cap.

 

[Dags90]

This may be because I either never reach it or I'm not a computer expert, but...I don't really understand the question.

Most American ISPs offer "unlimited" bandwidth. In a lot of other countries, there's a data limit of several gigabytes per month. Once you go past that, they generally throttle your internet to dial-up speeds.

I'm American. I have unlimited data for both home internet and my cell phone.

 

[FalloutJack]

This may be because I either never reach it or I'm not a computer expert, but...I don't really understand the question.

Most American ISPs offer "unlimited" bandwidth. In a lot of other countries, there's a data limit of several gigabytes per month. Once you go past that, they generally throttle your internet to dial-up speeds.

I'm American. I have unlimited data for both home internet and my cell phone.

*Raises hand*

Yeah, Pittsburgh here. I'm just not aware of this ever happening to my knowledge, so...I probably don't exceed whatever perceived limits there might be.

 

[Total LOLige]

250GB a month is a really big limit. Seriously, I have uncapped internet, pretty frequently download games from steam and mods for games and stuff and don't get that much. I think your cap is just unusually high.

I think the reason the UK has a uncapped data is because our data rate per second is pretty fucking low, they've got a lot of making up to do. I could tell a story about how the slow rates are BTs fault but that's a story for another time.

OT: Just think about it avid gamers that download via Steam will hit that cap quick. If they download 25 games(average file size of 10gb possibly 16gb then it's about 15 games) from Steam that month they've used it all up. That's without streaming services like Netflix. I'm meant to get a speed of up to 10mb/s but I barely reach 1.2mb/s the highest I've gotten is 1.4mb/s, I can't download shit on that speed. That speed can't handle two xboxes streaming Netflix and a laptop playing Facebook games simultaneously. I think UK ISPs are a bit shit when it comes to the "get up to" speed because when I was on a tariff that had a supposed speed of 20mb/s it peaked at 5mb/s. Americans have got it lucky.

 

[cathou]

This may be because I either never reach it or I'm not a computer expert, but...I don't really understand the question.

Most American ISPs offer "unlimited" bandwidth. In a lot of other countries, there's a data limit of several gigabytes per month. Once you go past that, they generally throttle your internet to dial-up speeds.

I'm American. I have unlimited data for both home internet and my cell phone.

the problem in Canada is that we are 34 millions in a territory a bit larger than the US, but you guys are 314 millions. so apparently the cost for develloping the network is higher per customers than in the US. And we also have a dinosaur entity call the CRTC, created in 1967 that regulate the communications in canada, but that is unable to evolve into today world (mind you that it took up to 1997 to permit competition in the home phone market. yeah before that bell canada had a monopoly over land lines)

so now we have only 3 or 4 real ISP, all the other use the network of those major ISP

 

[Stormz]

60gbs a month. Canadian ISPs are greedy as fuck and they keep getting worse. We go over the limit pretty much every month because we have 4 people using the internet.

 

[shintakie10]

I watch a ton of netflix and I regularly am on the internet+play games. I'm usually in the 250-300 range if I'm careful.

Edit - I could probably lower the amount of data usage if I didn't stream in 1080p, but I spent the money on the tv so I'm makin my stuff look pretty

 

[Dags90]

the problem in Canada is that we are 34 millions in a territory a bit larger than the US, but you guys are 314 millions. so apparently the cost for develloping the network is higher per customers than in the US. And we also have a dinosaur entity call the CRTC, created in 1967 that regulate the communications in canada, but that is unable to evolve into today world (mind you that it took up to 1997 to permit competition in the home phone market. yeah before that bell canada had a monopoly over land lines)

so now we have only 3 or 4 real ISP, all the other use the network of those major ISP

Eh, there aren't that many companies that operate in the U.S., and many only operate in certain areas. Canada is only considered to be slightly less urbanized than the U.S., and that's were there are the major problems in telecommunications development. The population density doesn't matter much if the population that does exists is in relatively few metro areas, which is true for most developed countries. Some places that more commonly have data caps on internet (like NZ/Scandinavia) are even more urbanized than the U.S.

 

[Zantos]

In Britain we don't really have caps on our ISPs, or at least none I've used, but one of Beardy Branson's soulless deathmongers will cut down your D/UL speed at peak times, or if you're using a lot of bandwidth, or because fuck you that's why. I think the cutting down process involves sacrificing an orphan to the Virgin brand machine cult.

And they're still better than Sky.

 

[MrTub]

Heh...my ISP has a cap of 50Go/month, really easy to break imo...


They also charge 7$ per exceeding Go , highway robbery version 2012

Edit: that's 50Go upload/download combined , not 50/50

Welcome to Canada !

I got 90Go per month, I use about 75% of it. I have more trouble with my cell phone cap, which is 2Go per month, and I often break it...

Go? Do you guys mean GB?

I did, Go is the french abbreviation

Gigaoctets IIRC.

I use around 1TB a month by watching hd stuff and using steam&origin

Lol checked my router and according to it I have used 250,36GB from 05/07/2012 - 07/07/2012 aka two days

ಠ_ಠ. You've been downloading at 1.44 MB/s constantly for that past two days. Why can't my internet be as fast as yours. . I only get a about 1 - 1.5 MB/s, whereas you probably aren't downloading constantly so your speeds are what, 3 or 4 MB/s.

Live in Australia and most of our ISPs impose a 'peak' and 'off peak' period for data use (no idea if that is the same in the states or wherever else), so I basically get a limit of 100GB a month between 8am and 2am and another 100GB outside that time. Unless I really try to hit that, it is very rare that I do just from my day to day use.

I'm pretty sure most of the US doesn't have data caps for home internet. The only data caps here I've heard about are with Cell Phones/Mobiles.

I've got 100/10Mbit without cap and it's around 11MB/s

Edit:
According to this article in 2011, 56% of all americans had caps on their internet
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2011/05/56-of-americans-have-internet-data-caps-fcc-asked-to-investigate/

 

[Woodsey]

That's a huge 'limit' - I've seen a lot of them that are like 30GB. I don't think I even have one. Come to think of it, I don't think anyone does in Britain.

 

[Pat8u]

I recently upgraded to 200gb a month very hard to reach
edit: Reading these posts it seems like I am in a really fortunate area of australia (and I don't even live in a city)

 

[MrTub]

the problem in Canada is that we are 34 millions in a territory a bit larger than the US, but you guys are 314 millions. so apparently the cost for develloping the network is higher per customers than in the US. And we also have a dinosaur entity call the CRTC, created in 1967 that regulate the communications in canada, but that is unable to evolve into today world (mind you that it took up to 1997 to permit competition in the home phone market. yeah before that bell canada had a monopoly over land lines)

so now we have only 3 or 4 real ISP, all the other use the network of those major ISP

Eh, there aren't that many companies that operate in the U.S., and many only operate in certain areas. Canada is only considered to be slightly less urbanized than the U.S., and that's were there are the major problems in telecommunications development. The population density doesn't matter much if the population that does exists is in relatively few metro areas, which is true for most developed countries. Some places that more commonly have data caps on internet (like NZ/Scandinavia) are even more urbanized than the U.S.

Perhaps I've misunderstood you but as far as I know no company in Scandinavia (except Iceland) has caps on their internet (except 3g/4g data)

 

[MelasZepheos_v1legacy]

Right now I have 15GB on a Dongle, which is nowhere near enough.

However, it's only recently become an issue because I have run out of all other forms of entertainment. I've been stuck in Belfast for six months without going home, so I've read every book, watched every DVD and played every single game I brought over. My only recourse is now the internet, and I just don't have the capacity anymore.

Going home next week though, so should be set for another month or two.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I tend to hit around 30 GB per month (pretty much around 1GB per day). Ok yes that's little compared to yours but I am paranoid about hitting the cap despite being on a unlimited service (I just never asked what the limit cap is).
My friend however had it worse than me as he watch alot of HD stuff and is on the pc 24/7.

As for what making me reach that memory sizes, I sometime listen to alot of songs online (I don't download it) and some videoes when I'm bored.

Now I think about it my parent now got into watching live stream channel online which I think they can make around 200 MB or more and that's not including to when my bro, uncle or whoever is sleeping over that are using the net aswell.

 

[Rinshan Kaihou]

Lal I would hit 250GB in half a month. So far this month I'm at 190GB of Data used =| Thank god Time Warner Cable no longer has data caps.

 

[kasperbbs]

Somehow the cap never really worried me, when it was 20GB per month the internet was too slow to actually use it up and after a few years i've been given unlimited cap for my loyalty as a customer and the speed increased up to 100Mbps over the years. Last month i downloaded/uploaded only 43GB's and its mostly from downloading some anime and TV shows in HD.