The cap is intended to prevent you from using streaming services to excess. Be careful. If you stream movies, download movies to iTunes etc, you could hit the cap and get smacked with overages. I oppose the cap. And I only wish I could get that speed! Cable is much slower in my neck of the woods and yet I live in perhaps the richest “cable district” in America (cable company I have serves Beverly Hills, Brentwood, Bel Air, Santa Monica, West Hollywood, Encino, Sherman Oaks, Venice, Malibu etc...100,000+ high income homes, yet perhaps the worst cable offerings in the country. Slow, expensive, old technology. If I had the monopoly on this cable district I would be stinking filthy rich and would still be able to provide excellent service, and I would have ran the phone company out of town, but the people who ran it were incompetent crooks (formerly Adelphia) who refused to invest in technology and the new owners are not much better)).
If they are allowed to involuntarily cap ( sounds like you volunteered to cap for a lower bill, that is fair long as you know the deal) they should be forced to deregulate the last mile and open it to competition.
I agree with all that. In this case, I’ll have an advantage:
They freeze all overage charges for the first 90 days, so I can see how much traffic I put through it for 3 months without getting any surprise extra charges.
I intend to not throttle myself at all during those 3 months, just to see what happens. If I have to adjust my usage after that, I will.
Going into it with eyes wide open.
Also, I typically use about 8GB per month, never more than 10GB per month.
I’ll monitor my use with the upgraded service and if it varies significantly from that, I’ll be making some usage changes, for sure.
Their throttling plan with my current service is based on using more than 5GB per day for more than half the days in a billing cycle. For a while, they automatically cut your bandwidth in half if you used more than a certain amount during daytime hours. As far as I can see from their TOU, they’ve dropped that restriction, I think.
I’m in Hollywood and it is fast for ATT, but their residential connections are ‘slow”. I have to download Game of Thrones from work instead of my home. That bad.