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In canada that's a big concern

by irixusr 11y ago

inversionOf 11y ago
It's a concern anywhere with caps, which increasingly includes much of the US as well. FWIW I'm in Canada and recently my provider (Cogeco) switching my 120Mbps plan to unlimited data per month, which is nice. This actually brings up a great point which is that systems need some sort of bandwidth conservation setting. We recently were traveling and had a couple of laptops and pads with us. Having no data connection at the hotel we were at, I enabled tethering on my smartphone. Last than an hour later I got a warning that they had blown through my 5GB. This wasn't active use, but literally was largely laptops auto downloading patches (they hadn't been turned on in a couple of weeks, backlogging GBs) and browser updates, pads pulling a tonne of updates, etc. It is becoming completely unmanageable.
- scorpioxy 11y ago
  That's without setting the connection as a metered connection, right? Once i saw that option, I immediately set it because I also use my mobile data connection for access.
- pdkl95 11y ago
  The problem isn't limited to bandwidth caps and pay-per-byte; bandwidth usage can be a problem anywhere bandwidth is finite. Any heuristic that tries to hide the bandwidth usage based on a single computer can fail when there are other computers using the same network.
calvin_ 11y ago
Maybe in Ontario. It's uncapped out east.
- pmelendez 11y ago
  Not even... I am on an uncapped plan in Ontario.
- irixusr 11y ago
  I don't know about the rest-of-Canada. I stayed in Ontario (Mississauga) last year for six mo. and I was on Rogers, capped at 80 Gb/month. My alternative was Bell. Same price. Same cap. Week-long activation date. I was paying what I had been paying for in the US for unlimited data. There were uncapped plans available, but they're pricier. Considering the building was hooked up to fiber (at least Bell suggested it was), getting 80 Gb seemed a bit stingy. The best way to illustrate how broken our system is to our American friends is to point out that, when I returned to the US, I was thankful to return to Comcast. Which is like being thankful to getting reinfected with Ebola.

In canada that's a big concern

by irixusr 11y ago

In canada that's a big concern

It's a concern anywhere with caps, which increasingly includes much of the US as well. FWIW I'm in Canada and recently my provider (Cogeco) switching my 120Mbps plan to unlimited data per month, which is nice. This actually brings up a great point which is that systems need some sort of bandwidth conservation setting. We recently were traveling and had a couple of laptops and pads with us. Having no data connection at the hotel we were at, I enabled tethering on my smartphone. Last than an hour later I got a warning that they had blown through my 5GB. This wasn't active use, but literally was largely laptops auto downloading patches (they hadn't been turned on in a couple of weeks, backlogging GBs) and browser updates, pads pulling a tonne of updates, etc. It is becoming completely unmanageable.

scorpioxy 11y ago
That's without setting the connection as a metered connection, right? Once i saw that option, I immediately set it because I also use my mobile data connection for access.
pdkl95 11y ago
The problem isn't limited to bandwidth caps and pay-per-byte; bandwidth usage can be a problem anywhere bandwidth is finite. Any heuristic that tries to hide the bandwidth usage based on a single computer can fail when there are other computers using the same network.

calvin_ 11y ago

Maybe in Ontario. It's uncapped out east.

pmelendez 11y ago
Not even... I am on an uncapped plan in Ontario.
irixusr 11y ago
I don't know about the rest-of-Canada. I stayed in Ontario (Mississauga) last year for six mo. and I was on Rogers, capped at 80 Gb/month. My alternative was Bell. Same price. Same cap. Week-long activation date. I was paying what I had been paying for in the US for unlimited data. There were uncapped plans available, but they're pricier. Considering the building was hooked up to fiber (at least Bell suggested it was), getting 80 Gb seemed a bit stingy. The best way to illustrate how broken our system is to our American friends is to point out that, when I returned to the US, I was thankful to return to Comcast. Which is like being thankful to getting reinfected with Ebola.