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Old 06-30-2017, 02:59 PM
 
Location: Lancaster, CA / Henderson, NV
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Wouldn't it actually be that businesses are using residential services?



A streamed HD movie "uses" 3GB per hour.



1000 Gb = 1 Tb


If you watch movies everyday for a month, 24 hours, you'd use 2.2 Tb's and have a serious need for a life.
But 4K is nearly 20Gig per hour. Which is about 90 minutes per day for a month. That is not even a full movie each day
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Old 06-30-2017, 03:12 PM
 
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Not only was Cox late to the game, apparently this started last winter in other parts of the country and is just now getting to Las Vegas. According to this article they initially made the cap 300GB!!!


https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/6/1...s-one-terabyte
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Old 06-30-2017, 03:14 PM
 
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And the article below details the data you need to use in a month to hit 1 TB.


How Easy Is It to Burn Through a 1TB Data Cap? - Consumer Reports
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Old 06-30-2017, 04:19 PM
 
Location: Henderson, NV, U.S.A.
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Streaming 4K content with high dynamic range can eat up 7GB to 10GB of data per hour.
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Old 06-30-2017, 06:16 PM
 
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Cox bandwidth monitoring software has no accountability. I found my account usage incorrect by large margins against my PFsense box logs for the month. Unfortunately the burden of proof is on you unless you threaten to close your account and then they may listen if its a good day.
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Old 06-30-2017, 08:30 PM
 
Location: Lone Mountain Las Vegas NV
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High dynamic range is a bit of a put on. It would be rather rare. This is a question about how well things compress. As you get to higher and higher resolutions things compress better and better. They may end up having to change algorithms as it get higher...simple block stuff may start to need another level of compression...but it is likely that most of the growth due to resolution increases can be vastly reduced by clever compression. So 4K will not turn out to 16 times or even 4 times as bad as 1K...maybe less than twice on average. There will be stuff that won't work well but it will be rare.
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Old 06-30-2017, 11:03 PM
 
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Even more bad news. I called to see if there is an option for any plan with more than a terabyte cap. The"good news" is 1000Mbps service will be available at my house very soon. The bad news is that speed is useless because it comes with a 1 Terabyte cap (upload+download). They currently offer no plans without that weak cap. Don't worry, the tech took note that I was requesting a (non-existent) plan with unlimited data.

Really disappointing. I have defended Cox up until this point, now I just want non-cox options.
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Old 07-01-2017, 06:51 AM
 
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I am not here to sell you on our service but I could honestly say is that we are not moving in the direction of data caps.
Do you do residential?
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Old 07-01-2017, 09:37 AM
 
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Even more bad news. I called to see if there is an option for any plan with more than a terabyte cap. The"good news" is 1000Mbps service will be available at my house very soon. The bad news is that speed is useless because it comes with a 1 Terabyte cap (upload+download). They currently offer no plans without that weak cap. Don't worry, the tech took note that I was requesting a (non-existent) plan with unlimited data.

Really disappointing. I have defended Cox up until this point, now I just want non-cox options.
Your threshold is admirable but I think that you're out of luck with Cox. That company is run like a casino with the odds sharply slanted toward the house. They are completely disinterested in providing fairness to the customer or making progressive advancements like an ISP should be doing -- what they DO care about is finding as many ways as possible to shank their customers in order to line their pockets from all directions.

I recently moved back east and I got Comcast X1 2000 megs with unlimited data. Comcast is light years ahead of Cox, too. Cox is also trying to knock off Comcast but the hardware they use is very cheap and comes off as tacky and full of problems. In Vegas my modem always needed to be reset and ran HOT. Now with Comcast, my modem has not needed any resetting and runs cool consistently. It is totally different hardware and in hindsight I can tell they are more of a 'forward moving' type of company. Cox truly is the worst and it embodies all that is present day corporate American greed.
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Old 07-02-2017, 09:37 PM
 
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Even more bad news. I called to see if there is an option for any plan with more than a terabyte cap. The"good news" is 1000Mbps service will be available at my house very soon. The bad news is that speed is useless because it comes with a 1 Terabyte cap (upload+download). They currently offer no plans without that weak cap. Don't worry, the tech took note that I was requesting a (non-existent) plan with unlimited data.

Really disappointing. I have defended Cox up until this point, now I just want non-cox options.
I believe their business plans are not data capped as of yet.
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