Last week, I got a notification from Mediacom that they are implementing caps on Internet usage for all customers. In my case, 250GB. When I signed up they told me it was unlimited.
I keep track of usage and in prior months I was in the 50-75GB range. Magically this month, with no change in habits or configurations, their graphs show me hitting 10GB per day. It must be all that Windows8.1 preview stuff I downloaded. Nope, that was last month. Nothing like that this month yet my usage is more, according to them.
In a month's time this level of usage will put me in overage. How convenient (for them, not me). They also conveniently dumped all prior data so there is no proof of what it used to be.
AT&T also has a 250GB cap, irrelevant because at the speeds they offer, I could never reach it. We need some competition in this market.
The thing none of these ISPs who also offer TV will admit, they are trying to make it difficult to stream or download video, to protect their dying business model.
I keep track of usage and in prior months I was in the 50-75GB range. Magically this month, with no change in habits or configurations, their graphs show me hitting 10GB per day. It must be all that Windows8.1 preview stuff I downloaded. Nope, that was last month. Nothing like that this month yet my usage is more, according to them.
In a month's time this level of usage will put me in overage. How convenient (for them, not me). They also conveniently dumped all prior data so there is no proof of what it used to be.
AT&T also has a 250GB cap, irrelevant because at the speeds they offer, I could never reach it. We need some competition in this market.
The thing none of these ISPs who also offer TV will admit, they are trying to make it difficult to stream or download video, to protect their dying business model.
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