re: Cord Cutters - Cox now capping monthly data usage

Huh?

A VPN can be used so cox will not throttle your downloading/Netflix, etc

Your ISP can't see what you're doing when you use a VPN, so they can't throttle based on what websites you visit.

However, they can throttle everything going through a VPN.

Pretty much every isp caps data. I pay for unlimited.

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I think Google has gotten out of the game

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Yea and no.

They've pretty much allowed their interest in land based ISP (fiber) to stagnate. But I think that's because they are looking forward to something else...

They are dumping tons of money and manpower in research and investments of the low earth orbit satellite service (LEO). The problem with current satellite ISPs is the huge lag time and almost nonexistent uploads because of the distance from earth those satellites have to be placed. But the LEO tech uses many more smaller units placed much closer to earth and promises to have comparable ping times to current land based services with bandwidths exceeding what is currently available to the consumer (10-40Gbs down and up).

This would be a game changer - anywhere internet, crazy speeds, and a serious ability for them to sell some of that bandwidth to cellphone companies.

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Aren't HD movies only like 3gb? How is this even a concern unless you watch TV 10+ hours a day?

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Porn.... I be strokin

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The internet should be viewed as a utility. 

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Yep.
But you can thank Republicans for this potential disaster

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Why should Cox get to penalize me because I don't want all of their services? TV streaming probably isn't gonna put me over the limit but my security system might. Are you saying I should be forced to use Cox's services?

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it chaps my arse to no end when i'm casting watchespn to the tv in my game room that i'm burning data even though i get espn through...comcast.

i just have to go and sit in the living room and watch it there like a good little comcast customer or pay for a $10 box and fricking ugly cable holes in the walls in every room in my house.

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ETA: and before any Cox rep tries to tell you any differently and spew off this bullshite about how 1 TB is "more than enough for the vast majority of customers," rest assured this is a big "frick you" to cord-cutters who stream instead of paying twice if not thrice as much for shitty cable.

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Yep. I just checked out my daily usage from last month. When My kids are with me and we're streaming 2+TVs and they're playing online games on Ipads and another TV via Xbox, we easily hit 50-60gb in a day.
We used 24 just yesterday with no kids but watched the game and fell asleep to Hulu.

This is bullshite.

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How did you all not see this coming. I have been saying for over year that they aren't going to sit by and lose money because you don't want to cable.

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And it's only going to get worse. There is nothing stopping companies from doing this.

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here to help. call them NOW and change your plan.

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I called and Latecia said, and I kid you not, that she was unable to process my request because her computer was down and she could not access my account. I need to call back in 3 hours. Seems legit.

I plan on having quite the conversation with customer services tonight

As fricked up as this, short of having like 4 kids who stream morning, noon and night, no one should even come close to 1,024 GBs in a month. shite, I am on my phone 24/7 and that barely hits 17gb.