All you can eat internet buffet about to get stuffed-AT&T will cap DSL and U-Verse internet, impose overage fees

[MacDoxy]

cbelt3 wrote:
You have to wonder WHY they were so happy building fast fast fast 'last mile' infrastructure, and forgetting the big honking pipes in the middle. I mean.. DUH !

Sort of like running 2000 amp lines to every home, and then wondering WHY some houses are actually using more than the old 10 amps ?

Stupid.

or running the lines knowing full well the future of rising profits will be based on "overages"

[Mr645]

I was concerned when Comcast started the 250GB limit. I use it for my business and upload and DL a lot of images (We're a photography studio) With 25Mbps DL and 3.5 up we can move a decent amount of data. I know we often upload hundreds of megabytes per day. But we found that 250GB is a lot of data.
In fact we have only gone over 100GB a few times in the past couple of years.

What legitimate uses would there be to use 250GB a month?

[flareslow]

Just stream Netflix several hours a day.

My earlier post: Charter Internet

[motopsyco]

MacDoxy wrote:
[quote=cbelt3]
You have to wonder WHY they were so happy building fast fast fast 'last mile' infrastructure, and forgetting the big honking pipes in the middle. I mean.. DUH !

Sort of like running 2000 amp lines to every home, and then wondering WHY some houses are actually using more than the old 10 amps ?

Stupid.

or running the lines knowing full well the future of rising profits will be based on "overages"
They're adopting the Banking model, fees, fees, fees, and then punishing for overages.

Cheers!

[Black]

Sorry, still not convinced.
And I always thought it was irresponsible for Netflix to roll out that service-- it puts a huge burden on the providers and they didn't offer to assist with the infrastructure. I would be more inclined to blame Netflix for this policy shift than any sort of revenue motive.

[(vikm)]

Black wrote:
Sorry, still not convinced.
And I always thought it was irresponsible for Netflix to roll out that service-- it puts a huge burden on the providers and they didn't offer to assist with the infrastructure. I would be more inclined to blame Netflix for this policy shift than any sort of revenue motive.

Did you forget to put a smiley after this comment?

[freeradical]

Ken Sp. wrote:
http://www.engadget.com/2011/03/13/atand...rage-fees/

Ladies and gentlemen, the days of unlimited broadband may be numbered in the United States, and we're not talking wireless this time -- AT&T says it will implement a 150GB monthly cap on landline DSL customers and a 250GB cap on subscribers to U-Verse high speed internet starting on May 2nd. AT&T will also charge overage fees of $10 for every additional 50GB of data, with two grace periods to start out -- in other words, the third month you go over the cap is when you'll get charged.

This is better than the Comcast policy of cutting your service if you use too much bandwidth.