What Are You Doing Right Now
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why the push for caps now?
Because the speeds are higher now. You can't download very much on 20Mb/s. But fiber with 120Mb/s let's you pull a crap tonne of stuff in no time. Suddenly three streams of 4K video, Steam machines downloading 1TB game libraries.... you can eat up insane amounts of storage on the new connections that were unthinkable before.
When did storage come into this picture?
Since the beginning, it's the only thing we've been discussing.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why the push for caps now?
Because the speeds are higher now. You can't download very much on 20Mb/s. But fiber with 120Mb/s let's you pull a crap tonne of stuff in no time. Suddenly three streams of 4K video, Steam machines downloading 1TB game libraries.... you can eat up insane amounts of storage on the new connections that were unthinkable before.
I understand that we are downloading/streaming more than ever before - but so what? Are they incurring costs due to higher transmission rates/more data flowing through the pipes? If so, where?
I'll agree that infrastructure upgrades need to be made, but frankly they need to be made anyway, the internet, even as we know it, isn't young and requires new equipment every few'ish years. Just like my WiFi getting upgraded.
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If they are charging you for bandwith usage I assume they are giving you an accurate way to monitor it...?
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An important thing is that I'm the only one that saw the cap because I'm the only computer user in the house. No one else uses web or email, they only use "devices" with Netflix or Steam. They don't use computers. So the web and email alerts that they were way, way over their cap had all been missed. We used 30% of the month's usage in a single day without anyone knowing.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
When you see a price and it says unlimited (granted many don't anymore), you expect to be able to use as much as you want and the price will never change.
Sure, but you also expect the speed not to change. Changing the speed IS a cap as well. It changes the total amount that you CAN download in a month. One is not "more unlimited" than the other. Both are very much limited.
OK sure, so you're implying that there was a cap before, and simply because they now offer more speed, the cap itself hasn't been raised.. OK i can get that to a point - but again, why increase the speed if those old caps (old physical limitations) are a real limit?
If it's money - just say it's money @scottalanmiller
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why the push for caps now?
Because the speeds are higher now. You can't download very much on 20Mb/s. But fiber with 120Mb/s let's you pull a crap tonne of stuff in no time. Suddenly three streams of 4K video, Steam machines downloading 1TB game libraries.... you can eat up insane amounts of storage on the new connections that were unthinkable before.
I understand that we are downloading/streaming more than ever before - but so what? Are they incurring costs due to higher transmission rates/more data flowing through the pipes? If so, where?
I'm confused. They pay for pipes the same that we do. Use a lot, they have to pay for more. It's just like gas. Why do they charge you for more gasoline? Because it costs them money to get you the gas.
ISPs pay for Internet identically to you. If you use a lot they either have to buy more GBs or they have to get bigger pipes. Both cost more money.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
I'll agree that infrastructure upgrades need to be made, but frankly they need to be made anyway, the internet, even as we know it, isn't young and requires new equipment every few'ish years. Just like my WiFi getting upgraded.
I don't follow this bit. How is this related?
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Updating my headset... wth? How does a headset need a firmware upgrade?
First experience with Steel Series. Mrs nadnerB scored me a set of Siberia 150's.Having a sticky beak at the software does... LED colour change ("yay"), DTS (some Dolby thing) is unconvincing for music. Have to test it in game...
Standard sound seems to be pretty good minus all the "enhancements" that I an change. Might not be worth keeping the software.
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why the push for caps now?
Because the speeds are higher now. You can't download very much on 20Mb/s. But fiber with 120Mb/s let's you pull a crap tonne of stuff in no time. Suddenly three streams of 4K video, Steam machines downloading 1TB game libraries.... you can eat up insane amounts of storage on the new connections that were unthinkable before.
When did storage come into this picture?
Since the beginning, it's the only thing we've been discussing.
We have? I understand that total throughput on a pipe's known size does present us with a storage value, but so what? Most people who are downloading aren't storing it, they are streaming it, then dumping it... so the storage aspect has little or no baring at all - unless the ISP is keeping copies of everything moving through their network for some predetermined amount of time for some reason we are unaware of?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
When you see a price and it says unlimited (granted many don't anymore), you expect to be able to use as much as you want and the price will never change.
Sure, but you also expect the speed not to change. Changing the speed IS a cap as well. It changes the total amount that you CAN download in a month. One is not "more unlimited" than the other. Both are very much limited.
OK sure, so you're implying that there was a cap before, and simply because they now offer more speed, the cap itself hasn't been raised.. OK i can get that to a point - but again, why increase the speed if those old caps (old physical limitations) are a real limit?
Because speed and caps work differently. Are you equally happy with a shower than can drip all day long a with one that can clean you in five minutes twice a day?
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Why the push for caps now?
Because the speeds are higher now. You can't download very much on 20Mb/s. But fiber with 120Mb/s let's you pull a crap tonne of stuff in no time. Suddenly three streams of 4K video, Steam machines downloading 1TB game libraries.... you can eat up insane amounts of storage on the new connections that were unthinkable before.
When did storage come into this picture?
Since the beginning, it's the only thing we've been discussing.
We have? I understand that total throughput on a pipe's known size does present us with a storage value, but so what?
So... that's the discussion at hand.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most people who are downloading aren't storing it, they are streaming it, then dumping it...
Which has no effect on how much you have downloaded. You started calling "total downloads" storage, now you are trying to define storage as not what you have downloaded. You are flip flopping on terms you introduced.
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@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
so the storage aspect has little or no baring at all - unless the ISP is keeping copies of everything moving through their network for some predetermined amount of time for some reason we are unaware of?
We are talking about storage as a volume of download. What are YOU talking about?
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@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If they are charging you for bandwith usage I assume they are giving you an accurate way to monitor it...?
Not even close. When people are going over their usage caps with their modem unplugged, the meters they use can't be close to accurate. It's a recurring theme over at www.dslreports.com
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Tuesday morning and I'm already doing network engineering.
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@scottalanmiller
I think I know which network that's on... -
@FiyaFly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller
I think I know which network that's on...Tee hee
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@FiyaFly said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@scottalanmiller
I think I know which network that's on...ugh yup you do....
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@travisdh1 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
If they are charging you for bandwith usage I assume they are giving you an accurate way to monitor it...?
Not even close. When people are going over their usage caps with their modem unplugged, the meters they use can't be close to accurate. It's a recurring theme over at www.dslreports.com
Right. That's why I can't see how this could be a thing
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@scottalanmiller said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
@Dashrender said in What Are You Doing Right Now:
Most people who are downloading aren't storing it, they are streaming it, then dumping it...
Which has no effect on how much you have downloaded. You started calling "total downloads" storage, now you are trying to define storage as not what you have downloaded. You are flip flopping on terms you introduced.
I did? Please quote it for me. I don't see myself flip flopping - I'm talking about bandwidth.
If my ISP sells me 20 Mbs for X, then 5 years later ups my connection to 100 Mbs and still lists it as unlimited, then I fully expect that I can now download 5 time as much as I could before.
Now if they say - hey, you can stay on your old 20 Mbs for price A, or move to 100 Mbs for price B.. .well then I have to decide what I want. (FYI, both are listed as unlimited).
I'm guessing that your family's connection is no longer listed as unlimited, it's now listed as 250 GB/month for X, and $10/50 GB above that... and while that sucks.. that's definitely fine for them to do... because it's not unlimited, and it's spelled out.
My question is though - WHY the need for the caps? other than to squeeze people for money money?
