re: Would you support Trump ending Net-Neutrality?

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Data caps are bullshite.

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If you really want to get pissed about it then look into the amount of "data" the cable company uses themselves.

I haven't looked at it in a while but last I checked the cable companies use the mpeg2 format for the info they send to your box. MPEG2 is yesteryear's tech; it is the stuff that DVDs use and its compression ration is atrocious when compared to the two/three generations that have been developed since it first came about.

Cox, for example, is pushing up to 6 HD video streams to one box - record 6 programs at once - and I could in theory be doing that 24/7. That amount of video is potentially 60 GB per hour = well over a 1.2 TB each day = 36 TB each month. Yet Cox limits me to only 1 TB data usage per month.



Furthermore;

1 TB per month / 30 days = 34.133 GB per day
34.133 GB per day / 24 hours = 1.422 GB per hour
1.422 GB per hour / 60 minutes = 0.024 GB per minute = 24.27 MB per minute
24.27 MB per minute / 60 seconds = 0.4 MB per second = 3.24 Mb per second

So, you could hit your data cap by downloading at only 3.24 Mb per second throughout the month, yet I pay for 150 Mb per second. That is what pisses me off.