Originally Posted By: Tim
Originally Posted By: robricc
Google Fiber has no data cap.
My cable service also doesn't have a cap, but many in the US do if you're not a "business" customer.

I didn't know any ISPs had a data limit anymore except for cellular carriers. It has been roughly forever since I've seen a cap in place.

"Anymore?" The problem is that new ones have been put in place. Comcast, in recent years, just began capping their users' bandwidth at 250GB. In countries other than the US, there are far lower caps.

There have been many reports that the ISPs aren't particularly strict about their caps, but they exist and it's something they can use as a weapon against you if they don't charge you outright for overages.

The problem is that when Comcast, for example, put their cap in at least two years ago, when we weren't using bandwidth as heavily. Now we have HD Netflix and Youtube, and people are using digital distribution far more.


Edited by Dignan (27/07/2012 15:32)
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