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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 7:12 pm 
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http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companie ... li=BBieTUX
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Get ready for your home Internet to feel like your smartphone — bound by data caps, a large overage fee waiting to happen. Comcast gave some users the bad news Thursday — not surprisingly before a long weekend: Consumers who exceed 300 GB in a month will have to pay for overages at $10 per 50 GB tier.


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oh, but at least you will get 100mbs speeds!!! of which will usually only work at 30mbs if youre lucky! but still, thats enough for 15 HD video streams simultaneously so you can still eat up your 300GB monthly allotment in a couple weeks dont worry!

fuck you comcast.

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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:20 pm 
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AT&T does this w/ 250GB. It's totally bull, since you're paying up the ass to these companies & they give you shit service.

BTW how long can 300GB last?


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 09, 2015 8:26 pm 
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netflix HD streams can suck 3-5GB an hour

so if you watch 1 movie a day youre at the limit. for individuals this might be OK, but for families with kids forget about it. or individuals who like to watch porn

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It's going to take the buyout of a major ISP by a European company to get any serious change. See what T-Mobile did to the US cellular market.

And we got close to having that as that crazy as a fox French billionaire telecom dude almost bought Time Warner, promising $5 broadband. The ISP duopoly wouldn't have it.

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PostPosted: Thu Sep 17, 2015 11:59 pm 
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What about Google Fiber? Internet & TV at 1000 MBPS. Someone told me it is or will be priced at least 50% everyone else. True?

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 9:17 am 
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What about Google Fiber? Internet & TV at 1000 MBPS. Someone told me it is or will be priced at least 50% everyone else. True?


If nothing else it should help competition. My son lives in Portland which is on Google Fiber's expansion list. He presently pays less for > 50 MBps Comcast than I do for 20 MBps Comcast.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:25 pm 
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The problem with the debate about shitty internet in this country is everyone argues for $100 fiber while a huge majority of the country cannot, or shouldn't think they can afford that.

Right now I pay $50 for 6mbps down and 1mbps upload. I torrent and do all kinds of shit with that. I can live with it. I just need to be paying like $20 for it.

I think the new rules from the FCC will eventually (after years of litigation) mean that 25mbps needs to be the norm. That is the legit broadband speed. So Comcast will likely subsidize that speed for truly poor people, the working lower-middle class (that used to be solidly middle class) will make too much money to qualify for subsidized internet and will be forced to into a package they cannot afford and probably do not need.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 5:51 pm 
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Someone just needs to file an anti trust lawsuit. They wont tho, because theyre all in on the game. Its not like microsft because in this case the "apple" is making just as much money.

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I'm okay with this.

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:04 pm 
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IMU wrote:
I'm okay with this.


you would be ok with your mom eating a large black mans bowel movements for tips on chaturbate

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PostPosted: Fri Sep 18, 2015 7:15 pm 
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Okay.

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IMU wrote:
Okay.


eat shit mother fucker

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Okay.

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My that escalated quickly.

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My that escalated quickly.

However, I feel both sides got their point across well.

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IkeSouth wrote:
netflix HD streams can suck 3-5GB an hour so if you watch 1 movie a day you're at the limit. for individuals this might be OK, but for families with kids forget about it.



Crap. I was just wondering this. Well.....we are supposed to have a fiber provider coming to Peoria soon so I guess we will check them out if we start running over. No way am I going to DSL.


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