I doubt network data for playing games is that much. Video and big file downloads are by far the most network intensive things people do. Maybe file sharing via torrent, too. As I posted earlier, the cap is used up with about 8 hours a day of Netflix HD for 20 days. Read the article. They have a WWW page that will tell you how much data you're using. Here's a few games and streaming a video, for an hour, to give you an idea: Killzone: Shadow Fall – 194.52MB Battlefield 4 – 66.88MB FIFA 14 – 26.7MB Streaming via Twitch (Best quality) – 781.38MB (Estimated Upload bandwidth ONLY) 1TB is 1,000,000MB. You could play 5,000 hours of Killzone in a month to use the 1TB. That's 208 days' worth. Or you could have 10 people playing that game 24/7 and be under the cap. Netflix uses 3GB/hour for best quality HD. 1TB is 1000GB. So the cap is 333 hours of Netflix per month. That's 13.8 days of 24/7 streaming. The guys they're really going after are the UHD/4K streaming guys. That's 7GB/hour for best quality on Netflix. 5.9 days of 24/7 streaming. 18 days of 8 hours per day. But 8 hours a day is a lot of TV...
Lol. Ive averaged about 100GB per month. So i dont see myself going anywhere near the cap. That includes me playing online games and streaming.
I get that most people don't approach the limit currently, but you have to look at this down the road. As televisions advance, the quality of video files will advance with them. Data usage will increase. It's extremely short sighted to only look at what your present usage is, and say "doesn't bother me! I'm nowhere near that number!" If we don't nip this kind of thinking in the bud, it will only get worse. It doesn't cost the ISPs anything extra for usage. Data isn't a finite resource. It's not something that can be used up.
How are you going to nip it in the butt? The only way you really can is to go to centurylink or frontier or whatever other company offers internet. So do that then.
I'm already doing that. I have Frontier. I'm encouraging others to do the same. The only way you nullify this practice is by dropping Comcast. If their profits go down, they will drop this stupid strategy.
Hey, I'm a member of the Trail Blazers' official online forum! Why don't the Blazers do something about these Comcast data caps on our behalf? What's the good of being the official forum of a team whose TV rights are owned by Comcast if we have to pay Comcast extra for access to that forum?! @SlyPokerDog, you need to get on this right now!!
I've got 50 down and 50 up, so absolutely. Usually my wife is streaming something, I'm gaming on my PC AND streaming.
Has Frontier aka old Verizon got better? I had them about five years ago ~ It got to the point where tv/internet/phone would drop at the sametime everyday for 6+ months, they'd come back up 20-30 minutes later. I'd call tech support, they'd tell me they were running a tap on my line. After about 6 months of this I became super efficient at fixing their problems. I called in one day after not being able to fix their shit, and was told. "Sir I don't ever see a tap being ran on your line." Was the last straw, I cancelled service right then and there. Had one of the higher quality packages as well. ~
Cool. Thanks for the info! Is Frontier giving you something for trying to get people to switch from Comcast? (wink wink - jab at you for your other thread)
My buddy signed up with frontier a few months ago and they tried charging him a close to $500 installation charge. And he constantly has his internet drop at random times in the day.
4K is about 7GB/hour, IIRC Not sure everyone has access to 4K streaming yet Two or more people can eat up 5hrs of 4K per day
I've had it for over a year... no problems. I'm pretty sure every company in the history of major corporations has stories of shitty customer service. But you know what Frontier isn't doing? Implementing data caps.
A 25mbit connection should handle most peoples' needs. If you have several TVs streaming netflix and a few people playing games, then maybe you need more. If you're a professional and waiting on file downloads is costly, then more (than 25mbit) bandwidth is a good idea.
I understand that they're doing this for cord cutters, but if it's an extra $50 for unlimited, and if you want TV on top of that, you're looking at maybe 150+ a month between tv and internet.
I see so after 5ish years nothing has changed. Thanks for the heads up. I'll stay away from frontier aka verizon. They'll never get my business. Sad that last time I was with that company I was in a major city not a smaller one like I am now.
