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> High-speed > Data cap Pick one
by ztgasdf 4y ago
> High-speed
> Data cap
Pick one
- metadat 4y agoHow about door #3: High price Even Comcast let's you pay an extra fee for uncapped bandwidth, physical realities be damned.
- Larrikin 4y agoComcast has uncapped speeds like most other residential ISPs in states with stronger consumer protection laws
- blahyawnblah 4y agoI've really only heard of it in areas that actually have a competitor
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- metadat 4y agoIIRC, they suspended to bandwidth caps around the beginning of the pando but a year or so ago reinstituted then. Edit: Looks like Comcast threatened to reinstitute the restrictions, then rescinded the action temporarily, but only through the end of 2022 [0]. [0] https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22840165/comcast-data-cap-delay-isp-dec-2021 https://www.theverge.com/2021/12/16/22840165/comcast-data-ca...
- hnuser123456 4y agoThey must have capped some people in between "threatening to reinstitute" and "rescinding", because I suddenly started having to pay more for going over 1TB about a year ago, mid-pandemic.
- bombcar 4y agoThey will still have caps somewhere because they have to protect against network abuse. It may be in some fine print that says something about abuse, or it may just be that "all customers in this area share a cap" - you can't make an upstream connection go faster than it can go.
- metadat 4y agoAre you saying Comcast has neglected to keep their network infrastructure up-to-date? I'm shocked, shocked I tell you. I have ATT fiber and they don't seem to mind of it running at 1Gbps both up and downstream continually 24/7.
- bombcar 4y agoIt’s great right after a new tier is installed because they over provision at the beginning. It’s hell at the end of the lifecycle because they reaallly don’t want to provision anything new. Reminds me fiber just dropped maybe I should switch. But I love my tiny little ISP.
- tzs 4y ago> I have ATT fiber and they don't seem to mind of it running at 1Gbps both up and downstream continually 24/7. Would they still not mind if all the rest of their customers also were doing 1 Gbps continuously 24/7?
- metadat 4y agoDepends how they architected the network.. maybe the design can scale and tolerate it up to a higher point compared to Comcast's ancient steaming pile. Bandwidth hogs occur at a predictable rate. It's amazing when a telco company actually delivers a product customers want. AT&T is somehow pulling it off despite their organizational dysfunction.
- bombcar 4y agoSomewhere at some point bandwidth runs out, though I suspect that it’s rarer now than it used to be (since capacities have increased but things to download really haven’t).
- kjksf 4y agoYou have that option too with Starlink: pay 0.25 per GB during congestion if you go over 1 TB.
- metadat 4y agoOh really? That isn't too much more than the AWS egress fee per GB.
- simplotek 4y ago> High-speed Data cap Pick one Only if you've been scammed by your service provider, which advertised services that they are not able to provide. I don't recall the last ISP I subscribed to in the past decade which was not high-speed or imposed a data cap.
- rasz 4y agoUnless in Europe, or Asia.