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ATT data caps
Juerg Schreiter, Photographer
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Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 9:35 PM on 03.15.11 |
| ->> yea, I've got AT&T dsl. I don't know what I'm going to do. My question is how do you track your usage? It would have to be something at the router, and I think I've only heard of one or two routers that will track usage. Is there another method I don't know about? |
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Myung Chun, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 9:36 PM on 03.15.11 |
| ->> According to the article, it's only 2 percent of the customer base that will be affected -- the heavy users. The other 98 percent won't be affected. |
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Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 9:48 PM on 03.15.11 |
| ->> Yea, but I have no idea what that means. I've got no cable. I've got netflix, use hulu, some other places to watch tv online. Occasional Vimeo, which could be a few hundred mb. I estimate I watch 8-10 shows a week online, plus whatever movies I watch. I have no idea what that equates to in GB. Are we honestly going to take AT&T's word that it will only affect 2% of their customers? |
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Myung Chun, Photographer
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Los Angeles | CA | USA | Posted: 9:58 PM on 03.15.11 |
->> "customers will be notified as they near their monthly caps, with alerts being sent out at 65 percent, 90 percent and 100 percent of usage allowances."
If it's available in your area, Verizon Fios might be an option. |
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Israel Shirk, Photographer, Assistant
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Boise | ID | US | Posted: 10:00 PM on 03.15.11 |
| ->> There are plenty of programs that will track your bandwidth usage. Just drop "program to track bandwidth usage" and it should give you some options. |
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John Schreiber, Photographer
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Perth | WA, AUSTRALIA | AUSTRALIA | Posted: 10:47 PM on 03.15.11 |
->> Hopefully other broadband providers do not follow suit. Living in Australia for the past year, I realized that having unlimited internet usage back home is something I took for granted. People here don't believe me when I tell them I was paying $25 a month for unlimited data back in the States.
To give you an idea, when I first got to Australia, I was paying $50 a month for just 10GB of data which wasn't nearly enough. I decided to finally spend the extra money ($75 a month) to have unlimited data.
The company I use lets you log in to your account and check your usage. Even after downloading multiple TV Shows from iTunes, uploading photos, and watching streaming videos each month, I have never gone over 50GB of usage. So, unless you are constantly downloading HD movies or something, I would think 150GB of usage is more than enough. If not, it's only $10 for another huge 50GB. |
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Clark Brooks, Photo Editor, Photographer
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Urbana | IL | USA | Posted: 10:52 PM on 03.15.11 |
->> There are some free bandwidth trackers out there. Here are a couple.
http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,67181-order,1-page,1/description.html
http://www.bwmonitor.com/
http://download.cnet.com/Bandwidth-Monitor-Pro/3000-2085_4-10217766.html
"Are we honestly going to take AT&T's word that it will only affect 2% of their customers?"
I don't think 2% is a significant number. It is a smoke screen to start charging more aggressively for bandwidth. AT&T continues to lose ground to the cable companies and this is how they plan to fertilize their bottom line. The 150GB limit will go down to 100GB, then 75GB and then 50GB. Other providers will follow suit. |
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Erik Markov, Photographer
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anywhere | IN | | Posted: 11:46 PM on 03.15.11 |
| ->> I agree with you Clark, that's how I see the road ahead. The other issue is bandwidth monitoring software only helps on the computer it's installed on. 3 or 4 computers in a household, plus mobile devices, plus online gaming consoles, Internet connected tv; should I go on? Plus anyone who might visit you that has a laptop. What am I going to do ask each person who visits, do you know how much GB your device is using? I know, someone is going to say I'm paranoid. But then you go over your limit, AT&T swears they sent you an email warning you. You didn't get, oops you weren't paying attention or it must have gone in your spam folder. They're already working on their excuses. Then the 50gb limit drops to 30, then 10, then 5. I pretty much knew this would happen someday, but it still royally stinks. I don't even have very fast dsl, about 1mbps. And they wonder why everyone is dropping landlines... |
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Jim Colburn, Photo Editor, Photographer
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McAllen | TX | USA | Posted: 10:06 AM on 03.17.11 |
->> "People here don't believe me when I tell them I was paying $25 a month for unlimited data back in the States"
A friend of mine in Paris gets:
1) Cable TV with 150+ stations
2) High speed (and I mean HIGH speed) internet, unlimited
3) Telephone service that's free to just about any land line in Europe, the US and a few other countries like Israel
All for less than $40.
It could be because they have real competition with more than a half dozen providers offering services in his part of the city. |
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