Service Providers (Internet, TV, Etc)
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Don't forget that AT&T is limiting you to 1TB download per month, on their gigabit fiber connection. In theory, you could use your entire month of bandwidth up in 2 hours and 13 minutes, if you were downloading at the full 1gbit per second.
So there you go, 1000mbit per second service, that you can only use for a total of 2 hours per month before you hit your cap.
You are then charged $10 per 50GB of overage. AT gigabit speeds, you could download 50GB in 6.67 minutes. So you'lll be getting charged $90 per hour of overage if you keep downloading at your max bandwidth indefinitely.
American Capitalism at its finest, folks!
So there you go, 1000mbit per second service, that you can only use for a total of 2 hours per month before you hit your cap.
You are then charged $10 per 50GB of overage. AT gigabit speeds, you could download 50GB in 6.67 minutes. So you'lll be getting charged $90 per hour of overage if you keep downloading at your max bandwidth indefinitely.
American Capitalism at its finest, folks!
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9 days until the FCC votes on it.
Join the Battle for Net Neutrality
You can send a letter to your senators from the link I posted
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Something needs to change in this country. We have ISP actively buying state legislatures to prevent competition from moving in, like community based broadband. We see that ATT will offer speeds like Google where they have competition, with of course the fuck you from ATT spin on it. Other cities where Google fiber has moved in, people have seen increases in internet speed with no additional cost. If there is one thing that Obama does that will have a lasting impact on the country, its reclassifying ISP's as title 2.
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Comcast did exactly that in Kansas City. 90% of the KC metro is Time Warner, except 1 major suburb, Independence (population about 110,000) which is serviced by Comcast.
Comcast made MAJOR campaign donations last time around to the mayor of Independence, as well as many incumbent council members. Guess which is the only major suburb of KC that would not agree to Google's concession for getting Google Fiber? Yep, Independence. Which is where my office is. Thanks Comcast!
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Its really ridiculous how bought and paid for our government is, yet, we really do nothing about it.
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But with 1000mbit service? You'd be a lot less likely to blaze past those limit on a standard 20mbit service than you would on 1000. I get that most things you download still aren't going to be at 1000mbps, since the host servers probably don't even have that beefy of a connection, but once more and more people get up to speed with that you'll be able to blaze through it pretty damn fast.Cox, another ISP, has the same limits. Seems to be pretty standard.
It's like giving you a Lamborghini with a gas tank that only holds 1 gallon of gas.
That's about 150 hours/month of 17Mbps Netflix, which is the only realistic way the 99%'er would use 1TB of data. Obviously you could eat through 1TB easy downloading a large game collection or torrenting.