Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
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Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#2What I gathered from the days of peak pandemic stay at home media consumption is that there is no practical reason to meter the average household’s data consumption via fiber or coax.
(thank you to the people who kept that working btw)
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#3I don't think the bill would have any effect. With the current FCC, providers could just do a network management study, impose even lower caps, and probably be fine. If the FCC materially changed, I don't think they would need the bill to go after predatory pricing.
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#4Our ISP caps data based on traffic used. Their method of figuring that consistently overestimates that traffic by a factor of 3x to 5x by my numbers. We get throttled after 3 or 4 days of unrestricted traffic, every month; then a whole host of sites stop working. Some wont send data to connections that slow (DDoS mitigation) and some sites just get stomped by the injection of a "you need to buy more data now) page into random urls, several times a day.
But I could pay them an extra $10/GB (their definition of "GB") to have better connectivity.
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#5I use AT&T’s 50mbs broadband as they don’t offer me fiber. Their cap is 1024GB/month and $10 for every 50MB over.
With multiple people in my home, I hit this limit with just streaming (granted running in the background pretty much all the time). It’s frustrating as most services don’t have a way to throttle and neither does my home router. I’d like to have something that can throttle devices to a particular speed.
But this seems like a pure cash grab for AT&T and fear how bad it will be when I get faster speeds.
My other alternative is Comcast and it’s even worse.
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#6I use AT&T’s 50mbs broadband as they don’t offer me fiber. Their cap is 1024GB/month and $10 for every 50MB over. With multiple people in my home, I hit this limit with just streaming (granted running in the background pretty much all the time). It’s frustrating as most services don’t have a way to throttle and neither does my home router. I’d like to have something that can throttle devices to a particular speed. Bu…
Did you print that right? Most phone plans are $10 for every GB. I cannot stress how absurdly evil, how anti-person, how undefensible $10/50MB would be. Absolutely craven absurd obscene pricing. Any company charging that should not be left running.
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#7I use AT&T’s 50mbs broadband as they don’t offer me fiber. Their cap is 1024GB/month and $10 for every 50MB over. With multiple people in my home, I hit this limit with just streaming (granted running in the background pretty much all the time). It’s frustrating as most services don’t have a way to throttle and neither does my home router. I’d like to have something that can throttle devices to a particular speed. Bu…
How is Comcast worse? Their monthly cap is about 20% higher, and if you are willing to use their modem/router you can get add unlimited for around $11/month.
I'm guessing you are currently using AT&T's modem/router because you mentioned frustration that your router does not support throttling, which if you were using your own you could address by simply buying a router that does.
You do this by getting their XFi Complete plan. It's $25/month on top of your base plan, but it includes both the modem/router rental and unlimited so is only $11/month more than a non-unlimited plan with a modem/router rental ($14/month) on top of the base plan.
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#8I use AT&T’s 50mbs broadband as they don’t offer me fiber. Their cap is 1024GB/month and $10 for every 50MB over. With multiple people in my home, I hit this limit with just streaming (granted running in the background pretty much all the time). It’s frustrating as most services don’t have a way to throttle and neither does my home router. I’d like to have something that can throttle devices to a particular speed. Bu…
How is Comcast worse? Their monthly cap is about 20% higher, and if you are willing to use their modem/router you can get add unlimited for around $11/month. I'm guessing you are currently using AT&T's modem/router because you mentioned frustration that your router does not support throttling, which if you were using your own you could address by simply buying a router that does. You do this by getting their XFi Comp…
Well from a consumer POV, Comcast forcing you to lease their hardware that phones home to the cloud at all times, remotely set wifi password and all on the xfi gateway for a discount on rent seeking behaviour is incredibly bullshit.
That being said AT&T fiber at least doesn't allow you to use your own modem. You are required to use their equipment because they intentionally force no hardware to be "compatible" with their handoff. Last time I was using them you had to do some convoluted bullshit to even try (see https://github.com/MonkWho/pfatt)
Re: Two senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits
#9I use AT&T’s 50mbs broadband as they don’t offer me fiber. Their cap is 1024GB/month and $10 for every 50MB over. With multiple people in my home, I hit this limit with just streaming (granted running in the background pretty much all the time). It’s frustrating as most services don’t have a way to throttle and neither does my home router. I’d like to have something that can throttle devices to a particular speed. Bu…
Did you print that right? Most phone plans are $10 for every GB. I cannot stress how absurdly evil, how anti-person, how undefensible $10/50MB would be. Absolutely craven absurd obscene pricing. Any company charging that should not be left running.
its a typo, $10 is 50GB up to a cap of $200/m on non-FTTH, and if i recall correctly i was offered unmetered data if i purchased a full (non-basic) directv or att tv plan (which should be illegal, tbh)
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#10I had my usage suddenly go from 300GB to over 1 TB (the cap) and I couldn’t figure out where it was coming from. This was after months of my partner and I both working from home and keeping the same usage habits. I tracked the usage on my router and it didn’t match up. I asked the ISP for proof and they had none. Fortunately I found fiber had just gotten to my house and had no cap so I was able to switch, but I wondered how much you can really trust the ISP accounting.