Do you guys got bandwidth limit imposed by your internet provider company?

[Soultaker]

Originally Posted by Tor

Given how people use the internet these days, (digital distribution, media streaming etc) capping upload or download seems ridiculous to me. If you don't have enough bandwidth to offer your customers unlimited service, it means you should spend some of those profits on upgrading your backbone network and other equipment.

Now where is the business sense in that, squandering profits on upgrades while 90% of your clientele won't even notice the difference, and half of the remaining 10% can be convinced to upgrade to a higher service level contract at an even higher price? The last 5%: good riddance! Let some other providers worry about users that actually use their broadband connection to the fullest.

[Tor]

Yeah, my bad. Why would anyone in their right mind want to take pride in their work and offer a good service, when there's money to be made?

[Leak]

I hope I'm not blowing anybody's mind with this:



I could have used my own provider to test, and the upload would have clocked in a bit higher, but I thought I'd try something a bit further off...

np: ISAN - 64 Fire Damage (Glow In The Dark Safari Set)

[Olaus Petrus]

I live in the Northern Europe and I have never heard about download cap before, although I wouldn't mind it, because I don't really use that much Internet. Direct downloads now and then, occasionally few hours of Internet-TV and Spotify (free music streaming service) are only uses I currently have for broadband. Otherwise I could live with a dial-up (but they don't even sell those anymore).

On the contrary they try to get me use more bandwith, because service providers keep calling me and offering me 100mbit/s broadband. I don't need it to anything, but who knows what happens when the price goes down a bit.

[guitarsareboring]

I believe my limit is 20gb a month through BT in the UK. I struggled at first when I was into downloading lossless audio live bootlegs but now the only time I get near it is if I buy a game through Steam.

[MaxFan]

I don't remember having a cap since the days of dial up when they'd only let you use a certain number of hours per month. Nearly ten years ago now.

[BoneFreak]

I think my monthly limit is 200gb. However, the first time I will exceed it comcast will give a warning, then the second time you exceed then they shut down your account for about a year! That sucks!

[KuroShiro]

Originally Posted by MaxFan

I don't remember having a cap since the days of dial up when they'd only let you use a certain number of hours per month. Nearly ten years ago now.

Time Warner as an ISP/cable company is probably the single best reason *not* to live in southern California.

[corruptbiggins]

The service provider I use does allow unlimited download subject to their allowable use policy (fair use) and they do employ a traffic management system between the hours of 10am and 9pm with a couple of different limits. For between 10am and 3pm the download limit for the package I currently subscribe to is 3GB and between 4pm & 9pm the limit is 1.5GB. If the limit is reached then my download speed is throttled by 75% for 5 hours. I'm about to upgrade my package at which time the limits will increase to 7GB and 3.5GB respectively. So there are limits but fair ones I feel. Besides, I do most of my big downloads overnight so there's no worrying about hitting my limits.

[Everlast]

Everytime i read this thread i feel miserable and worst with every post of people telling about how fast their internet connection is and either big CAP limits or unlimited download.

I wish there was an alternative service provider.

[allaboardfilms]

Unfortunately, where I live doesn't get cable internet or DSL, so my family has to resort to an air card hooked up to a wireless router. There's a 5GB upload/download limit per month. For the six people living in my house. It's BAD.

[Olaus Petrus]

Originally Posted by Everlast

Everytime i read this thread i feel miserable and worst with every post of people telling about how fast their internet connection is and either big CAP limits or unlimited download.

I wish there was an alternative service provider.

Monopoly is a bad thing because it allows dictating terms to the customers.

Around here they couldn't really dictate such terms, because competitors would give better terms. Only limitation is that some smaller service providers priorize traffic in their mobile Internet connections (i. e. peer-to-peer gets less bandwith than other traffic), but most don't do that, because there are plenty of legal peer-to-peer applications and all major competitors allow free use without limitations.

[Shwoo]

Here's mine:

This is the fastest it's ever been in my experience. I suppose if I'd used American Internet I'd feel like I was missing out, but I don't really.

It would be cool if it was really fast, though. I'd be able to load entire YouTube videos in seconds. It'd be awesome!

[skeeter]

We're on a 25gb a month plan... they've got 50gb and 100gb plans, but at the moment we can't decide if we want to fork out more money... but last month we used 20 gb in the first half on the month, so I think we need to. We get shaped if we go over, and it's so slow it's pretty impossible to do anything.

[taumel]

listen, limits for i-access via phones exist, most very tight, can't afford typing more, bye

[Everlast]

Originally Posted by Olaus Petrus

Monopoly is a bad thing because it allows dictating terms to the customers.

Around here they couldn't really dictate such terms, because competitors would give better terms. Only limitation is that some smaller service providers priorize traffic in their mobile Internet connections (i. e. peer-to-peer gets less bandwith than other traffic), but most don't do that, because there are plenty of legal peer-to-peer applications and all major competitors allow free use without limitations.

I live in US territory. And there is competition, but its just than in our area Onelink is the only one who offers fast internet in our area. If we want to loom for their competitor he will say "We dont do service in that area" I believe this companies has picked apart puerto rico between them in order to not compete with other companies in each area. And that is immoral.

[JedExodus]

I hope you guys are all thankful for what you got after seeing this

[allaboardfilms]

Good Lord. I never realized just how slow the internet was too. Urgle.

[webtax]

i got 2MBsp download. i can pay an extra 6 dollars/monnth and get 15MBps but it has a 30 or 50gb llimitation dont remember , and then it becomes 1MBps

[puzzlebox]

I was talking to a South African guy today. He told me that in his country, sending data by carrier pigeon can sometimes be far more efficient than sending it via broadband.

True story.