Bandwidth Monitoring and Capping

[lazy4u1]

caping will only effect the people paying for there internet.The hackers and people abusing the bandwith will still find a way to uncap there internet.So it seems to me that AT&T wants the legit people paying every month to pay for the hackers as well.Its just like the copy right protection on music.It only effected people actually paying for the music and the hackers just laughed at it and went around it.

[lazy4u1]

caping is put in to place only to make $. How could u even say its good?The internet is a huge free source of information.You restrict bandwith u restrict people of information.They tried to put a cap here in Canada(MTS)but the people didnt want it so the government steped in and stoped them. Maybe the USA needs to take notes from the Canadian government.The good of the people should allways come 1st before the good of a company.U watch AT&T try get a government bail out if they lose customers.

[imapplhelper]

im on a 200gb 20 m/b plan and im only getting 4 of that 20. Not happy.

[UnknownXV]

You don't set a global cap for everyone. You simply throttle down the speed of someone who is constantly uploading and downloading (for hours on end). Simple.

Caps now are just ridiculous. Even a 500 GB month cap can EASILY be breached just by downloading HD movies and streaming youtube a lot. Here I am sitting on a 120 GB cap at 30 mbp/s speeds. It's completely insane.

Besides, downloading doesn't take much bandwidth at all. It's uploading that kills everyone's speed.

[lestat692k8]

comcast still sucks a few years later

[CHillGuitarTV]

this is just a way to get you to say "i'll pay for more bandwidth". then they don't even increase the bandwidth. They just increase the amount of time until you get capped. This is all to bribe you to pay more for the same service.

[CHillGuitarTV]

The band is divided by total current users up/downing from it, not by how much time they spend connected.

you can't flex bandwidth. there is only so much bandwidth provided by your isp. a neighbor might spend a lot of time on the network. If he's the only one on, he's really happy and you don't care cuz you're not online. But, as soon as you get online, you both are only able to get 50%.

[JoshMack400]

You think a bandwidth cap is a good thing?? Wow, I can't use youtube more then 1 hour a day because if I do I'll go over. Bandwidth caps are fucking stupid, I can't do anything on the internet and you think they are a good thing??

[yyyy2999]

@JoshMack400 I use like 4 gb a day and my mom is soo pissed. like 40$ over my limit everymonth

[Sharif699]

ouch, id think of switching isps if u can

[yyyy2999]

@Sharif699 not much knowledge on this kinda stuff but i think its better just to use less lmao

[Sharif699]

lol i use more than that a day and no probs

[Lobos222]

@JoshMack400

Tier based is the best subscriptions, I think.

Currently I have 6mb downstream and 0.5mb upstream 24/7 for 50 EUR. Next month I will have a subscription for 16mb (effectively 12mb because of hardware limits in the central I am connected to) and 0.8mb upstream 24/7 for 50 EUR. After a bit of talking they even threw in a new modem for 80 EUR for free. Me happy :)

[sasdfrom]

@Lobos222 good for you. Your good fortune doesn't mean people should let this BS happen.

[Lobos222]

@sasdfrom

I actually think its Joe Schmo reason there even is something called "unlimited", as in speeds, because on paper it sounds allot better and cheaper than tiers. Which comes of as expensive from the start. Hopefully it will change once average Joe becomes a bit more educated on the actual "what you really get" part.

[sasdfrom]

@Lobos222 Joe Schmo? You're saying the average person is responsible for the over generalization? Absolutely not. ISP's are falsely advertising their speeds plain and simple. People aren't misunderstanding anything when they see "3Mbps down, .5Mbps up." How much have ISP's actually tried to educate their customers about they're actual speeds or the cap? Not much. They're going about it too shady, and it seems like their trying to finagle this little issue without incident.

[Lobos222]

@sasdfrom

Joe Schmos perception is not on the level of actually understand "what" 3mbps down and 5Mbps up are. So yeah, I am saying its easy for ISPs to sell there current schemes. Try selling a 3 wheeled car to Joe Schmo.... that wont work.

Apart from that increased competition would also help, but then the schemes would change out of a competitive point of view and not the increased level of understanding by Joe Schmo.

[sasdfrom]

@Lobos222 They're not selling a car. They're selling bandwidth. They're selling a piece of the pie for a certain fee. If they can't give you that piece of pie you paid for, then they are stealing your money. If the ISP's are unable to stick to their promise, then they shouldn't have been handing out that rate. Besides, they know how much bandwidth their handing out. Why would they be complaining all of a sudden when they dug their own hole? Money! Grab that cash with both hands and make a stash!

[Lobos222]

@sasdfrom

They are currently selling "unlimited" because of the good perception it makes towards the costumer. As long as the general public thinks that perception is better than the, on the surface, more costly tired base they will keep selling it. I am not debating the legal lingo of "they are money grabbers", "stick to their promise" or whatever. Thats besides the point and Il let that be my final word here...

[sasdfrom]

@Lobos222 alright if that's your final word then fine. It sounded like you were condoning the situation. Like they had a right to change their terms of agreement and charge more.

[sasdfrom]

@JoshMack400 Exactly what I was thinking. The reason for bandwidth caps is stop bottle-necking on their servers, they say. I think it's a ploy because you pay a certain amount for a certain speed. If they can't give you the speed they promise; that's false advertising. Caps are idiotic and so transparent that I can't believe anyone would flap their gums and say caps would be good. Your just giving them an opportunity to charge you more for the same service.

[avmf8]

What about when the ISP messes with the cap? I was put in a 60 GB cap which even then can be restrictive but is at least livable.

So then I once day find out that my cap is at 25 I found out since my average use a month is 30. So I was getting hit every month with a overage fee.

They never said anything about them changing it they did not even tell me about the 60 GB cap till I entered into a 2 year contract. Then they simply changed my contract without consent.

[321IMpossible]

dude mine is 40KB , now thats pain !!!!!!!!

[EinsiTeq]

Internet/phone companies in Iceland are now working together to screw us over, i'm paying for 6mb connection but i NEVER get that much speed, and upload speed is only 512kb, and now in steps the companies are lowering capping limit and has now gone down to 40GB! f***ING 40GB a month, one of the 3 companies, that are 2 actually because one of them owns 51% of the other, actually deceive the costumers in thinking they have 40GB a month when they actually have 10GB a week. Living in Iceland is pain

[ghabhg]

whats the cap on your connection?

[TranceEnergy]

shut the hell up seriously.. i dont understand why your making bandwidth cap sound so good, im not even sure if your being payed for the shit that is coming out of your mouth to say this bullshit and how good you think it is. god.. hope people dont fall for this shit bandwidth cap.. ridicules

[zcool4564]

thats just ur opinion hes just saying that there needs to be a limt for bandwidth and he not making it sound good hes just being realistic

[wrignj08]

SurplusMeter for mac

[kkbronson]

It seems to me the High Speed internet companies are like the insurance companies. Selling a product and hoping only a few people really use it. If what you say is true, then the reason you can't buy more bandwidth is because they sold too much of it and there isn't enough to go around. If they start selling bandwidth in tiers?, I believe you (Chris) would already have the highest tier and the packages would go down from where you are now. Hoping I got the jist of this video.

[Blitzkrieg1981]

AnalogX NetStat Live. Light program monitoring monthly totals.

[mowtown23]

I got suddenlink thay cap me if I download more that 100mb

[Whiteice27]

I personally think that bandwidth capping is a thing of the dialup days. Many internet giants will lose business with such a move. Such a move would limit the time table of american technological innovation

Think about companies like youtube, itunes, netflix online, these companies would lose MILLIONS of dollars of revenue, they would lose traffic because consumers are bandwidth axious.

Bandwidth capping is a small move but such a move would echo through the internet infrastructure.

[thejetset1]

Come to Ireland and try living here Chris! complete crap anywhere outside of Dublin, even in Dublin!!

[thedude77777]

bell sucks they did this to us i love youtube but now im charged 100 or something dollars just for youtube

[thedude77777]

bell sucks they did this to us i love youtube but now im charged 100 or something dollars just for youtube

[greks224]

With Verizon Fios, according to speakeasy speed test with laptop WIRELESSLY connected to verizon provide router, I got 16865 kbps DL and 4378 kbps UL connected to a server in NY from about 40 miles away in NJ. I <3 Fios.

[kb27973]

You are too cool

[acer1137]

i have no idea wut this topic is lol im a noobie yea noobs

[powerman2442]

Most providers cap your upload speed more than download. For example... most of the time on Cable for about $50.00 a month your download speed is 6 MB to 9 MB, but you upload speed is only 100 KB - 150 KB. There are some companies that don't cap the upload so low, but most do. Regardless with a high upload speed you can host servers, stream large files to many people, you could even (if you knew how) host internet for others if you upload was high enough.

[AJenbo]

i would maybe pay 4/3 for x2 band with.

[rooboy69]

the state of the internet, and backbones being saturated with data, its going to become common place with ISP's who cap certain data.

[Goaltimer]

I guess you didn't say how fast your internet connection is. I pay $59.99/mo for my 10meg connection. $120 for 20meg would be too much for a home user.

[bcj999]

a long time ago I used a program called Bandwidth Monitor Pro. It was a trial version but after it expired it would continue let you use it. However, a funny message would always pop up, "your trial period has expired. Please purchase on your website or use the trial version illegally." LMAO

[mikk150]

omfg u pay twice as much to get double speed

here in estonia

DL: 1Mbit/s UL: 256kbit/s costs 460EEK 40USD

DL: 12Mbit/s UL: 768kbit/s costs 520EEK 45USD

[brijeshchauhan]

You said that there are built-in tool in windows to monitor bandwidth. Can you please let me know how to access that tool?

[AJenbo]

The tesk maniger in xp will show you how much you are currently using.

In win98 propetys would show you how much data you have used in you current session.

the vista ressource meater will show you how much each program uses.

[toiletballerdog]

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