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Originally Posted by DenverTaco07
in principle, i find it a bit....disgusting.
if we look at the cell phone model, they charge by the data amount used per month, 1gb, 2gb, etc.
Cable and DSL traditionally charged based on speed, 7mbps, 10mbps etc. now they want the best of both worlds. hypothetical...you go out and find a cox plan that boasts 1gbps, but a cap of 1Terabyte, you could in theory use your monthly plan in about 2 hours, or i could state that in fact, you will have used your limit after 2.22 hours at max speed, which you paid a premium for.
now the reality is that most will never reach 1TB a month.
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What bothers me more is that cable TV doesn't have any caps. 100 hours per month of high def video isn't unusual (~3 hours per weekday, and a total of about 10 on the weekend). I'm not sure what the raw video rate is for high def cable TV, but I think it exceeds 10 GB/hour. That puts things at ~1TB of TV in a month for a fairly typical use case. But if you wanted to, you could run your TV 24/7 and your cable bill would be just as much.
Meanwhile, the same company that will sell you as much TV as you want to watch will also sell you internet access -over the very same cables, now decides that with a more bandwidth efficient delivery method, you need to be limited in how much data you can consume in a month. WTF?