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

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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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just didnt care. i wasnt hitting the 1TB cap so why should i monitor it?

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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?!

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and yet we've had them for years even under the current obama-NN.

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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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This is big, I've found. I have 2 working Canary monitors for both of my girls and I've reduced the amount of uploads it does. I don't use it for security as I already have a home alarm. No need for me to see videos of my girls rolling in their beds at night as a "suspicious activity". But damn, the uploads eat up data.

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

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This is what I fear. Now with a 4k TV and more things becoming 4k shows, this will definitely creep into data usage.

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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.

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Don't doubt that at all. When they were still on grace periods with ATT, I was easily getting 1.5gbs usage during the summer while the wife and kids were off.

I recently got the 1000mbps ATT fiber connection and while it's 80$, it's unlimited.

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just didnt care. i wasnt hitting the 1TB cap so why should i monitor it?

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if you know your families usage already common sense would tell you that blowing through a TB is extremely easy.

I have a 3 year old and 3 month baby and we blow through our 900GB data cap like nothing, since we don't have cable.

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so..you're admitting google is a viable market competitor and if they had invested in more markets/larger rollout..we WOULD have a choice and that has nothing to do with NN?

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Google was road blocked by the competition during their expansion. Its why they stopped. Have you done any research at all?

NN def has to do with a free market and no more local monopolies.

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you know your families usage already common sense would tell you that blowing through a TB is extremely easy.

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but but but..everyone on the board said 'no way any normal usage of the internet can come close to 1TB' a year ago.

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but but but..everyone on the board said 'no way any normal usage of the internet can come close to 1TB' a year ago.

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what??

Ive never seen anyone say that.

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Uh huh, data caps are an anti-consumer and anti-competitive device. They have very little technical merit, if any at all. You've already noticed how they typically don't exist where there is actual competition, with or without any rules.

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exactly even ISPs like Comcast and Cox in some areas don't care about data caps bc they compete with Fios. That's why Cox was only encoring their data cap policies in some markets.

In the UK where this is a true free market for internet data caps are not a thing.

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and yet we've had them for years even under the current obama-NN.

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Yeah, the current NN rules do not cover all NN principles or ways to frick consumers. But rather than plug the holes, you support those that want to open ALL the holes to frick us over. Way to go.

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again, that has everything to do with crony capitalism and nothing to do with NN rulings.

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The two are connected

how can you not grasp this.

If you want the answers you want to hear but not the truth go back to the Poliboard.