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Charter Cable Capping Usage Nationwide This Month
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from DSL Reports, with possible bad news for Charter customers who live outside the test areas for the bandwidth caps the company's been playing with: "Yesterday we cited an anonymous insider at Charter who informed us that the company would very soon be implementing new caps. Today, Charter's Eric Ketzer confirmed the plans, and informed us that Charter's new, $140 60Mbps tier will not have any limitations. Speeds of 15Mbps or slower will have a 100GB monthly cap, while 15-25Mbps speeds will have a 250GB monthly cap. 'In order to continue providing the best possible experience for our Internet customers, later this month we will be updating our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to establish monthly residential bandwidth consumption thresholds,' Ketzer confirms. 'More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows,' he says." But if they're lucky, customers will be able to hit that cap quickly.
Forget this! On top of the $50 a month they jacked my bill? See ya later jerks.
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Read the sentence after the one you quoted, you fuck.
Whale
Be honest with us - two or three terabytes of data in a year - break that down for us. You can post anonymous coward if you like, in case someone knows who you are ... but really, be honest.
What percentages were :
Movies that you paid for / have a license for
Movies that you didn't pay for / don't have a license for
Music, legit w/ licenses
Music, no license
Linux distros
Warez
Legit software downloads
Regular interactive Internet surfing, including MMORPG traffic
Glonoinha the MebiByte Slayer
I think you could use a healthy does of reality and a touch of humility. Infrastructure costs money and you are not the sole user thereof. Charter is being more than generous given said infrastructure in the ground when compared to other providers. At present time no reasonable person should require even the 100GB/month provided their activities on said pipe were legal. If for some reason you had no use for being gainfully employed and wished to simultaneously stream HD video into three rooms of your house for your every waking minute you certainly have the option of the no cap 60Mb/s pipe. An option given the cost of purchasing streaming video which shouldn't be outside the realm of a reasonable expenditure.
At present time I'd gladly accept the option to pay $50/month for a 5Mb/s pipe having a 100GB/month cap where I live. Alas I'm stuck with $89/month for a 1.5Mb/s pipe having a 400MB/day save a 3 hour unlimited window between 3-6am EST cap along with the wonderful packet routing efficiency that comes with a 36,000 mile round trip.
This offering by Charter is a good deal especially in areas where there is competition with other providers. Don't throw the baby out with the bath water, this is the start of something we've been lustfully waiting for for years.
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