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Old 12-02-2020, 07:45 AM
 
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You use 900GB/month or about 30GB per day? Wow...you might want to check how much your kid is downloading.

I have an Eero that tracks usage and for two people working from home plus evening streaming TV we're at about 5-7GB per day.
If they watch TV in 4k 10 hrs a week is about 600GB a month, TV alone.
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Old 12-02-2020, 07:50 AM
 
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Are Comcast customers aware of some coming changes to most users' internet service? They are putting a cap on internet usage and are also soon dropping (as of 01/01/2021) the free Norton Anti-Virus protection software it had provided.


Comcast is imposing a data cap on home internet use in Massachusetts (11-25-2020)
https://www.boston.com/news/media/20...-massachusetts




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The market should work it out as long as there is competition. I dropped Verizon and switched to Comcast internet recently. Partly because Verizon caps. I have other internet options if Comcast gets too expensive for me.
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Old 12-02-2020, 08:09 AM
 
Location: Needham, MA
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The market should work it out as long as there is competition. I dropped Verizon and switched to Comcast internet recently. Partly because Verizon caps. I have other internet options if Comcast gets too expensive for me.
I have Verizon at my house. I'm not aware of a data cap.
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Old 12-02-2020, 08:31 AM
 
Location: Boston
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I have Verizon at my house. I'm not aware of a data cap.
Ditto. FiOS has no caps that I'm aware of. Heck, I pay for 400 Mbps up/down from them yet consistently get 500+ Mbps up/down from them, so if they do have caps they're certainly not applying them around here.
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Old 12-02-2020, 08:58 AM
 
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I think this is actually a really smart move for Comcast and I wouldn't be surprised if the other ones follow them soon.

There is not going to be much backlash right now because the vast majority isn't even close to the cap, but in a few years (with the rise of 4K especially, maybe even 8K at some point) more and more people are going to hit the cap but again, with not that much broad backlash because at that point is not going to be a new policy.
So sounds like a nice way to increase their revenues so they can keep buying back stocks and not invest in their infrastructure.
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Old 12-02-2020, 11:24 AM
 
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You use 900GB/month or about 30GB per day? Wow...you might want to check how much your kid is downloading.

I have an Eero that tracks usage and for two people working from home plus evening streaming TV we're at about 5-7GB per day.
I read the table wrong - we're using about 450GB.
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Old 12-02-2020, 05:40 PM
 
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I have Verizon at my house. I'm not aware of a data cap.
I had the Verizon 4G LTE Global USB Modem. I had to pay extra for more than 5G. That was fine for the way I used it before the pandemic, but not now. It was great while traveling.
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Old 12-02-2020, 08:16 PM
 
Location: Boston
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I had the Verizon 4G LTE Global USB Modem. I had to pay extra for more than 5G. That was fine for the way I used it before the pandemic, but not now. It was great while traveling.
Comparing wireless to landline data plans is a bit of apples to oranges IMO.
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Old 12-02-2020, 10:20 PM
 
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Comparing wireless to landline data plans is a bit of apples to oranges IMO.
Maybe not after they start capping data. It wasn't actually a cap, it was just extra charges after using more. Just like what comcast is doing now.
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Old 12-03-2020, 06:47 AM
 
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Maybe not after they start capping data.
Mobile plans typically cap you after 20GB, it's not feasible for home use.
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