Bandwidth Monitoring and Capping

http://live.pirillo.com - I push out tons of GBs of data every day. In my house, I personally don't want a bandwidth cap. However, I do believe in it as a whole. I would actually be even more in favor of it if there were a way to buy even more bandwidth.

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[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?

[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

[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%.