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AT&T To Introduce Broadband Caps
rekenner writes "In the upcoming weeks, AT&T customers are going to start receiving notices that their broadband services are going to have a monthly cap, starting in May. DSL users will have a cap of 150 GB per month, while U-Verse users will have a more 'generous' cap of 250 GB per month. However, unlike other caps, it won't be until your third month of overage, on the life of the account, that you'll be charged an overage. Thanks, I guess."
So they're absolutely providing a way to check usage. The jury's out on whether or not it's a "good" way, but seeing as you haven't used it you are in no way capable of making that judgement.
Bullshit. They've been promising that for a decade. Comcrap and Cox, the same.
It's still fucking vaporware there same as everywhere else.
Now you're just making things up. It doesn't mention that anywhere in the article.
Now you just proved you're a fucking braindead tool.
There is a finite amount of bandwidth.
If you measure max capacity x number of seconds in the month, perhaps.
If you underuse one second, though, you cannot make up for it by going "extra fast" later. Bandwidth is a MOMENTARY capacity, not something that can be stored for later use.
Once you get this simple fact to store correctly in your warped, defective brain, you will start to understand why "bandwidth caps" are meaningless to usage and serve no rational purpose.
The options that have been presented to solve this problem are traffic shaping and capping, so please either throw your towel in with one of those or propose another idea.
Option 3: make the providers start obeying truth-in-advertising laws and actually fucking invest in network capacity again rather than pushing dishonest "up to X speed" plans where the users never see even a third of it.