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| Here It Comes: Tiered Usage in forum [Market-Ticker]
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Vitchilo
Posts: 4635
Incept: 2011-04-27
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Quote:The wholesale cost of a gigabite of data is about $7-10. How much is it for an internet company in a big city with hundreds of thousands/millions of customers? A few cents?
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit upon his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats." -- H.L. Mencken
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Genesis
Posts: 130798
Incept: 2007-06-26
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Cellular data Vit. And the problem isn't in the INCREMENTAL cost, it's in the sunk cost of providing the switching and transport at the speed x customers.
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I don't care if it makes sense -- only if it makes money. -- Me
Bank (n): See scam, fraud and theft. Eat a bankster -- they're low-carb.
What part of "shall not be infringed" was unclear?
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Soros
Posts: 3119
Incept: 2007-08-31
La La Land
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We've had this here in Ontario for a while, at least with Cogeco cable. I'm paying $60/month for a 175 GB cap ($100 for the 250GB cap) and the overages add up quick, $1 for each GB. I got hit with this a few months ago in an ugly way but now I'm paying very close attention to how much I'm using 
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So long and thanks for all the fish.
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Johnny
Posts: 1588
Incept: 2008-10-01
Kentucky
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Is there a meter or something a customer can monitor their usage with?
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Bagbalm
Posts: 4263
Incept: 2009-03-19
Just North of Detroit
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So how much are they dropping the fee for low users? HAHAHAHAHAHA
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Aveteam
Posts: 18
Incept: 2010-06-26
Fort Collins, Colorado
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Netmeter works pretty well.
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This IS the government our founders warned us about.
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Wis/min
Posts: 5364
Incept: 2009-08-14
On the border
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Quote:Is there a meter or something a customer can monitor their usage with? There is on Comcast/Xfinity You can access it from your account page under Users and Settings and can get to the last three months usage as well. https://login.comcast.net/login?forceAut.... |
Janedeaux
Posts: 287
Incept: 2009-09-16
Mississippi
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this was recommended to me, but I couldn't boot up after installation. Deleted the program, but it may have been a glitch on my end.
www.softperfect.com/products/networx
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A nation of sheep breeds a government of wolves.-anon
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Widgeon
Posts: 13481
Incept: 2007-08-30
Region formerly known as the United States
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My ISP keeps track. I had occasion to ask them a couple months ago; roughly 12 GB per month.
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Marvinmartian
Posts: 754
Incept: 2011-03-16
Pasadena, CA
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We use Charter for cable TV and a cable modem for internet, and internet voice land line; all in one bundle.
I'm very fed up with them because the cable modem/internet gets very slow at certain times of the day.
I believe its because the party-line nature of the cable modem; too many neighbors are streaming internet digital and dragging down response time for me.
I used to use ATT/DSL before going to a Charter bundle. Would they be any better should I go back to DSL?
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Oulous
Posts: 30
Incept: 2010-12-12
United States
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interesting. I pay 39 euro for high speed. Fiber conection is 55 eur. All data is unlimited. My cell phone is 20 eur for unlimited data. I looked at the net income for KPN (provider) they make money.
Seems possible numbers are put out there by providers to convince a public they need to pay more.
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Krzelune
Posts: 5513
Incept: 2007-10-08
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I hope they start blocking all the ads. I don't want to be paying for them.
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The desire of millions, the inconvenience of millions, the suffering of millions, the death of millions, does not concern them because of the evolutionary humanist lens they peer through.
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Ducarius
Posts: 125
Incept: 2010-08-25
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This will certainly inspire people to put passwords on wireless household systems. I wonder how it will affect bookstores, libraries and universities that provide free wireless.
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Uwe
Posts: 6456
Incept: 2009-01-03
19446
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Quote:I hope they start blocking all the ads. I don't want to be paying for them. Then you need to block them yourself; it is, after all, your computer requesting that data. Personally, I do not want my ISP deciding what data I get and what I don't (because they're blocking it). That's my decision to make. And yours. -Uwe-
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“Whenever the legislators endeavor to take away and destroy the property of the people, or to reduce them to slavery under arbitrary power, they put themselves into a state of war with the people, who are thereupon absolved from any further obedience.” - John Locke
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Jotapay
Posts: 16733
Incept: 2008-08-26
Austin, Tx
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Quote:Is there a meter or something a customer can monitor their usage with? Good router firmware will keep track. Tomato firmware does it for me. |
Djloche
Posts: 3280
Incept: 2008-07-07
In the Mountains
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right now I do between 40 and 50GB total per month without any HD streams or downloads
300GB is between 30-40 HD quality downloads - I could see with a 'wired in' family of 4, watching on average 1.5+ movies a day total and going over 300GB without a even trying.
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"If we wish to be free, we must fight! I repeat it, sir, we must fight! An appeal to arms and to the God of Hosts is all that is left us! Gentlemen may cry, "Peace! Peace!" -- but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle?"
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Hescominsoon
Posts: 66
Incept: 2010-01-04
Banned
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they aren't getting rid of the cap. baseline cap is raised to 300 Gb with overages...they aren't going to byte based billing yet..at leas tnot on residential...yet..:)
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Jackl
Posts: 2237
Incept: 2008-01-17
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Bought a business line because of this crap. Faster speeds and no one gives a **** unless you start using TB a month.
Person on the phone asked why I was canceling phone/Cable.
What do you think mobile phones and the plethora of stream services are for?
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Hescominsoon
Posts: 66
Incept: 2010-01-04
Banned
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for me business reduces speeds..but it also saves me 20/month over residential speeds..:)
16/2 residential goes to 12/2 on business..but saves me 20/month..:)
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Elkad
Posts: 106
Incept: 2009-09-04
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We are near 200gb every month from Sept to May. Drops off in the summer because there are few TV shows to watch.
Not hard to run it up streaming HD TV and movies on a couple computers.
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"The budget should be balanced, the Treasury refilled, public debt reduced, the arrogance of officialdom tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." - Cicero - 55 BC
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Mannfm11
Posts: 3556
Incept: 2009-02-28
DFW, Tx
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I have been watching the Lone Ranger on Hulu. Wonder how much that is? TWC is pretty fast here.
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The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.---John Kenneth Galbraith
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Colk55
Posts: 2428
Incept: 2010-02-11
Indiana
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Johnny: As Jota mentioned, if you use a router some of them will show your usage if you know how to navigate to your router settings. I just type in my router's IP address, enter the user name and password and have access to our router's "Traffic Meter" in the control panel.
We have Comcast for broadband and my wife occasionally uses Netflix, Amazon Prime Videos, etc and our usage was just over 44 GB last month, 46 total if you include upstream data. We're on track for around 42 this month, and since our usage is fairly consistent we probably fall into the 40-45 GB per month range. Most of ours is internet use though. She mostly uses the streaming services when our granddaughter or great-nephews are visiting.
Mann, I'll go out on a limb and say maybe one or two hundred megabytes, tops.
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The politician's motto: If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bull****.
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Harrisonact
Posts: 1756
Incept: 2010-10-04
canada
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Ah this crap surfaces regulary. *******s cry "but it's advertised as unlimited and I want my monies worth" then the "bandwidth hog" mudslinging starts, it reaches a fever pitch and disappears as subscribers of all stripes say **** it and leave in droves. Where they go to? I dunno.
It's as predictable as full moons.
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bilge
My playbook speaks español. Deal with it. Im too lazy to fix it.
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Peterm99
Posts: 4995
Incept: 2009-03-21
SoCal
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Truth in advertising - is that so hard to do?
Tell the people what's "guaranteed" at 99% availability, and tell them the "mean expected" (or something similarly meaningful) but NOT guaranteed number, with expectation values as a function of time of day or something.
Then people have no grounds to complain.
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". . . the Constitution has died, the economy welters in irreversible decline, we have perpetual war, all power lies in the hands of the executive, the police are supreme, and a surveillance beyond Orwell’s imaginings falls into place." - Fred Reed
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