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Your cable options have an 80gb limit?! WTF!! Comcast has data caps (which is stupid) but it's 1TB and I think my 7 person household has only passed the halfway
by sethdj 8y ago
Your cable options have an 80gb limit?! WTF!! Comcast has data caps (which is stupid) but it's 1TB and I think my 7 person household has only passed the halfway mark once, so it's meh. But 80GB?! That's insane! Destiny 2 is an 80GB download itself.
- AckSyn 8y agoThis is why amazes me. At my home we blow through on average 25 GB a day in gaming, streaming video, other downloads etc. limits like these are terrible. 80 a month? Wtf?!
- wlesieutre 8y ago25 GB a day? Are you streaming 4K?
- jsjohnst 8y agoI live alone and use 50-100 gb/day on days I’m home all day, so 25gb/day isn’t that much. I cut cable TV years ago and exclusively stream. I like having the TV on for background noise when home, even though I’m usually not actively watching it the whole time, and you’d be surprised how fast one can chew through data usage. I usually use around 1.5TB a month when you factor in offsite backups.
- Jach 8y agoI don't know if it's widespread but at least here in WA you can pay Comcast an extra $50/month and they'll remove the data cap.
- joecool1029 8y agoComcast Business class accounts don't have the cap as well. It's slightly more expensive and comes with slower speed tiers but the support has been better. It's not required to be a business to go through that channel.
- noir_lord 8y agoSeems strange how bad ISP's are in the US compared to the UK. I can get 400/35 Fiber to the Home with no datacap (no throttling either) for £54 a month (~$70).
- jonathankoren 8y agoWhat's really strange is how the crappy broadband is continuously justified in the US.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoReplace “broadband” with everything from education and healthcare, through infrastructure and a dozen other words, and you’re still right. I don’t understand it either.
- xyzzyz 8y agoEducation and healthcare are of high quality in the US, generally speaking. They are just super expensive.
- blattimwind 8y agoThe Radio Eriwan joke writes itself.
- toufiqbarhamov 8y agoOh man, those still hold up too. “In principle yes, but unfortunately nobody here has the education to be sure.”
- sangnoir 8y agoThe belief in American exceptionalism isn't limited to just positives.
- JumpCrisscross 8y ago
- X-Istence 8y agoI live alone, and generally I do about ~400GB of data transfer on Comcast a month. I work from home, and spend a lot of time downloading Docker containers and other such things to do my work. Last month apparently I hit a new high for me: 890GB. Lots of devices needing updates/games downloaded... I am really surprised that with a 7 person household you don't go through your data even faster. I even run a local caching server for all my Apple devices, which over the last 30 days has saved me about ~50GB from having to be served from origin, with about ~100GB being served to clients. Although I tend to also be a heavy user of Apple's iTunes and particularly their movies service, so I have a feeling a lot of that cached data is me putting movies on in the background and them being streamed from the cache rather than from Apple directly.
- ams6110 8y agoAny option to host your docker stuff on a VPS or other system that isn't using your home internet connection?
- rebyn 8y agoI think he/she uses Docker as a development tool on his machine, with volumes and everything.
- X-Istence 8y agoYep, this isn't about hosting docker containers or the end result, but doing development work/tearing down/setting up test environments and things of that nature. It is surprising how big docker containers get after a while.
- kbrisso 8y agoComcast business doesn't have caps, I pay about $90 a month.