Having started my Internet career back when most of the ‘internet’ was 9600 baud dial-up, with a few lucky folks on either 56k leased or T1, I am deeply offended
(and cry ‘false advertising’) when an internet provider claims to be selling you 30Mb/s but then limits you to <x> amount of data in the month.
Either you’re selling me 30Mb/s, or you’re selling me <x>/(days in month * hours in day * minutes in hour * seconds in minute) Mb/s
And if my calculations are correct, 1.6TB/month is 4.85Mb/s. Bah, humbug! That’s only 16% of what they say I’m getting. Ripoff. Time to contact the attorney
general?
Rusty
From: PLUG-discuss [mailto:plug-discuss-bounces@lists.phxlinux.org]
On Behalf Of Saul
Sent: Monday, July 24, 2017 8:03 AM
To: plug-discuss@lists.phxlinux.org
Subject: Re: YouTube TV streaming in Phx today ...
Interesting info. Cox in Mesa is limiting me to 1tb.
On 7/22/2017 9:18 AM, Michael Butash wrote:
This is why Cox has now imposed a 1.5tb bandwidth cap on users. They know everyone is cutting off their overpriced video, and now they're going to charge you for the massive bandwidth that things like netflix use to recoup some of that.
Nothing is "free", so caveat emptor.
Case in point, my aunt pinged me when Cox sent her the threat of overage charges, where she really only does tv streaming. She was at least a 1tb over their "normal" limit now, and would be charged accordingly. Only things she really
does is use Netflix and Vue for tv, but apparently enough bandwith to exceed their cap, and she doesn't even do 4k content or have kids soaking it up, where many do. I can only imagine the bandwidth needs with a house full of kids doing the same, plus gaming
and everything else...
Still cheaper than paying for cable tv, but I presume their charging will only rapidly escalate to offset their dying video/telephony services and lack of anything else they can really charge for. Since every other carrier is dogpiling
in to slaughter and feast on the corpse of net neutrality, Cox decided in their own interests to hop on he bandwagon too. Thanks for all the fish, Trump.
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