AT&T is capping home internet usage

[wgrr]

Starting May 2nd AT&T is placing a 150GB cap on DSL usage and a 250 GB cap on Uverse IPTV. The will charge a $10 overage fee for 50GB used over the limit.

To put this into perspective you can burn 150GB watching three hours of Netflix. Eight hours of Uverse HD tv can eat up 250GB easily. The average American household watches five hours of tv a day.

I am an AT&T customer. I have Uverse tv and Interne and I stream Netflix. Unlike a lot of other people in the country I do have a choice. Cox cable is in a war with AT&T here so I may just have to go back to Cox Communications for tv and Internet. It is the same price without bandwidth capping.

My other option is satellite Internet and tv. I have heard it has improved a lot in the last couple of years. If anyone has any experience with satellite Internet service your input would be greatly appreciated.

The kicker of the whole thing is I can complain directly to AT&T. I make my living keeping their buildings and server rooms here cool. I am going to tell the director of Uverse marketing why I am leaving and what I think about their new policy.

It is about time for folks to wake up and pay attention to Net Nuetrallity. It does puzzle me a bit that AT&T wants to hurt their fledgling Uverse tv service. I see everyday the huge amounts of money they are investing in rolling it out.

[Korndogg]

I saw this the other day. I'm going to wait a little bit and see if Time Warner follows suit or goes against this as an advertising campaign. Time Warner was going to do this but they caught so much flak for it, they stopped it. If Time Warner says they will not cap, I will be going back to them.

[wgrr]

I think it is a very poor decision on AT&T's part. Comcast has had it in place since 2008 but I hear charging overuse fees is hardly ever done.

I can go back to the good old days and perhaps we all should. Spend more real time with family and friends, work more on hobbies, fish, hunt, you get the drift. When you get in for the evening just don't turn on the tv. Don't boot up the computer. Every once in awhile that is what my wife and I do.

To be honest if I went off the Internets Tubes tomorrow about all I would miss is sites like this one.

[mspanky]

Starting May 2nd AT&T is placing a 150GB cap on DSL usage and a 250 GB cap on Uverse IPTV. The will charge a $10 overage fee for 50GB used over the limit.

To put this into perspective you can burn 150GB watching three hours of Netflix. Eight hours of Uverse HD tv can eat up 250GB easily. The average American household watches five hours of tv a day.

I am an AT&T customer. I have Uverse tv and Interne and I stream Netflix. Unlike a lot of other people in the country I do have a choice. Cox cable is in a war with AT&T here so I may just have to go back to Cox Communications for tv and Internet. It is the same price without bandwidth capping.

My other option is satellite Internet and tv. I have heard it has improved a lot in the last couple of years. If anyone has any experience with satellite Internet service your input would be greatly appreciated.

The kicker of the whole thing is I can complain directly to AT&T. I make my living keeping their buildings and server rooms here cool. I am going to tell the director of Uverse marketing why I am leaving and what I think about their new policy.

It is about time for folks to wake up and pay attention to Net Nuetrallity. It does puzzle me a bit that AT&T wants to hurt their fledgling Uverse tv service. I see everyday the huge amounts of money they are investing in rolling it out.

You should check your numbers. Streaming HD video off Netflix will average around 1.5 Gb/hr so a 150 Gb cap can handle around 100 hrs of movie watching. This is certainly more tv than I watch in a month, but I still agree than bandwidth caps suck. My service provider has recently rolled out a 100 Gb cap on my 15.0 Mbps plan and their usage meter shows me as being very close or slightly over for the last 6 months.

[Texas-Tech]

I heard a discussion on the radio that all bandwith providers are gonna have to raise their rates since every freaking gadget that's in the hands of every child down to the age of 8 years old has access to the internet. There isn't enough bandwith out there to handle it. I know Verizon is stopping it's program for discounted phones every 2 years, simply can't afford to give anything away anymore.

[flange]

The first cell phone plan I had was nextel unlimited everything for 100 bucks. then sprint came along and said it was obsolete, and i had to change plans. There was no everything option, so i did indeed change plans, to verizon. about eight months later, sprint realized the wisdon of their decision, which led to massive losses of customers. guess what plan i have now? yup, sprint 69 bucks for unlimited everything and so do all my employees. they can text, email, and talk on the phone until their little heart is content, and I dont give a rats a**. this too shall pass, as soon as some marketing genious figures out they can raise prices and "no one will care". The reality is that people do care, and will find ways to show that. I will be selling dish serice and cell phone packages soon at better rates than you can get now.

[BParson03]

We have AT&T here. Well I was panicked at first until I looked at our usage. We only used 7 for January and 8 for February LOL. I was worried that it was going to be a heck of a lot more than that.

[snewman24]

...................... Cox cable is in a war with AT&T here so I may just have to go back to Cox Communications for tv and Internet. It is the same price without bandwidth capping..........................................
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Cox does have capping, they just don't seem to enforce it - YET. With a lot of people canceling Cox telephone service, and Cox cable TV service, and using the Cox broadband connection for everything, they'll have to make up the loss in revenue by gouging for the high speed internet connection.

http://ww2.cox.com/aboutus/omaha/policies/limitations.cox

[jpsmith1cm]

What's the big deal?

We all pay for gasoline as we drive, right?

Why shouldn't we pay for the Internet bandwith that we use?

Use more, pay more. I don't see a problem here.

[DavyB]

What's the big deal?

We all pay for gasoline as we drive, right?

Why shouldn't we pay for the Internet bandwith that we use?

Use more, pay more. I don't see a problem here.

As long as we pay less when we use less.

[jpsmith1cm]

That would be the concept as I see it.

Similar to cell phone plans.

You can buy a little or a lot.

[DavyB]

That would be the concept as I see it.

Similar to cell phone plans.

You can buy a little or a lot.

Why not just pay as you go? They have cellphones like that too I've heard.