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When did internet companies start putting monthly caps on data??I
Posted on 4/10/17 at 6:54 pm
Posted on 4/10/17 at 6:54 pm
I just got a message from my ISP, shitty, shitty, suddenlink, that im approaching my 250GB limit. Didn't even know this was a thing. 
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Posted on 4/10/17 at 6:56 pm to barry
Once they realized they could profit off people cord cutting and streaming everything
Posted on 4/10/17 at 7:27 pm to barry
Been a while but I've never had an issue with cox. Our cap is 300g but we hit 1t pretty often and I've never been contacted.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 11:16 pm to barry
What's your download speed? I just upped to 200 Mbps and have no cap on data. Was at 100 and had a cap of 350 if I recall. I have Suddenlink as well.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 6:18 am to barry
Suddenlink started it about 2.5 years ago. They just added an unlimited option a few months ago for the 200+ Mbps plans for $5 extra a month.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 7:15 am to junkfunky
300?? I have Cox, and my cap is 1TB.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 7:23 am to GEAUXT
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Once they realized they could profit off people cord cutting and streaming everything
And to be fair, their caps have been generous enough to not impact me until I got a 4k set - streaming Netflix and Amazon 4k quickly put me in the "bonus round" so to speak.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:00 am to barry
many ISPs have a CAP but will, for the most part, not do much about it unless you hit something crazy like 2-3TB in consecutive months. thats pretty shitty if they throttle you for going 250GB in just one month.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:04 am to Ace Midnight
As OP said, Suddenlink is 250 GB for the 50 Mbps plan. We have 2 TVs in our house, and only 1 gets used daily. Main TV has a 1080p box, other a 720p box. (February my wife as home sick for a week with the flu.)
Posted on 4/11/17 at 8:08 am to colorchangintiger
I'm also on Suddenlink - we have streamed a lot for a long time. I didn't hit the cap until the very first month with a 4k television (and a Roku 4) - then I hit it on like Day 5.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:12 am to barry
Suddenlink implemented it to force you to a higher plan with unlimited data. In my area, thats $20 extra a month.
It worked.
It worked.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:23 am to junkfunky
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Been a while but I've never had an issue with cox. Our cap is 300g but we hit 1t pretty often and I've never been contacted.
I believe Cox upped their caps to 1TB on every level of service a few months back.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:37 am to barry
I always thought it was ver naive to think that cord cutting was just going to cut out the communications companies. That has been my thought all along. The internet providers were just going to start absorbing savings at some point.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 3:19 pm to barry
They will tell you its to manage the network and to stop people using all the date but its a lie.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 3:21 pm to Ace Midnight
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I'm also on Suddenlink - we have streamed a lot for a long time. I didn't hit the cap until the very first month with a 4k television (and a Roku 4) - then I hit it on like Day 5.
4K uses 7GB to 10GB an hour
Posted on 4/11/17 at 3:21 pm to jcole4lsu
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Suddenlink implemented it to force you to a higher plan with unlimited data. In my area, thats $20 extra a month. It worked.
That's how Cable One does it as well.
If NN is taken away data caps are going to get even worse.
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