cancelled cable TV, got a nastygram from comcast a week later

The only reason I am staying on a 50 mbps internet plan, is because I have unlimited data usage through ATT. If I wanted to go to 100 mbps I'd get capped at 1 TB/month.

my buddy lives in a neighborhood close to downtown here (Sylvan Park) and he's paying $45/mo for google fiber 100/100. he says GIG is $20/mo more but its not worth it to him and that as more people sign up in his neighborhood, the rate keeps dropping

i get a measly 12/up and a shitty data cap. somehow i was always at 90% 2/3 of the way through the month when it was 300GB and now magically i'm at 90% of 1,024GB just 10 months later

and this is with a huge bulk of tv viewing going through my local server.

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Yet you still strongly identify with the political party that is encouraging this and even worse behavior by ISPs.

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Data caps have nothing to do with Net Neutrality and have been part of most companies billing for several years now.

If they start throttling. You have a complaint but they can cap and charge all they want even with NN.

I do a fair amount of streaming, but surprisingly a large component of my data usage is upload not download. This would have to be coming from the small army of Nest Cameras that I have around the house...all of which are uploading to their cloud recording service.

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what does net neurality have to do with monthly data caps?? thats kind of like the ISP 'nuclear option' to control what you're doing on the webz. i don't see how NN would help this in any possible way.

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in a free market ISPs would be force to ditch them for competition.

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WTF do data caps have to do with NN?

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See my post above

Its also why zero data and fast lanes that won't hurt your cap will be a thing without NN soon.

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aren't you the guy with all the lights and cameras and pretty much your whole house using data all the time? what did you expect?

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dude how much data do you think it takes to turn light bulbs on and off?

i have zero working web cameras at the moment. i just don't have enough use cases to keep them going.

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I haven't gone over my data cap yet, and we stream on 2-3 tvs at a time, on top of whatever my wife is farting around with on her phone, and the kids on the tablets. What are you doing to use that much data?

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4 kids and 2 adults. my 16yo daughter is always sitting on her bed working on homework and binge watching something or other in her room.

my 18yo son trades crypto and watches too much youtube on what rice to add to his car next.

i'll grab a few movies per month and binge watch the occasional netflix series..seems like more and more they are in 4K.

sonos speakers are constantly streaming some station or other all day.


the 9yo is constantly making youtube videos and uploading them and watching shite on the TV in her room.

the 3yo is the terrorist. he's either watching stuff on the old ipad2 or we're parking him in front of his 70th viewing of "Secret Life of Pets" so we can get some projects done around the house. he watches crap on youtube as well. gotta get the SO to go for Plex first before one of those other options because half the time the tv is just running and nobody is even in the room.

i looked at my comcast data usage for last 6 months and had no idea i was hitting close to 800GB each month prior to this.

frickers.

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4 kids and 2 adults. my 16yo daughter is always sitting on her bed working on homework and binge watching something or other in her room. my 18yo son trades crypto and watches too much youtube on what rice to add to his car next. i'll grab a few movies per month and binge watch the occasional netflix series..seems like more and more they are in 4K. sonos speakers are constantly streaming some station or other all day. the 9yo is constantly making youtube videos and uploading them and watching shite on the TV in her room. the 3yo is the terrorist. he's either watching stuff on the old ipad2 or we're parking him in front of his 70th viewing of "Secret Life of Pets" so we can get some projects done around the house. he watches crap on youtube as well. gotta get the SO to go for Plex first before one of those other options because half the time the tv is just running and nobody is even in the room. i looked at my comcast data usage for last 6 months and had no idea i was hitting close to 800GB each month prior to this. frickers.

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How could you not know the basics of data consumption? Aren't you an IT guy or tech nerd

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thats kind of like the ISP 'nuclear option' to control what you're doing on the webz. i don't see how NN would help this in any possible way.

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DUDE!@#$


NN, in a nutshell, is a set of principles to prevent ISPs from controlling how we use the internet. You admit that data caps are a way for ISPs to control what we do on the internet, and you don't see the connection?!