warning: AT&T dsl

[ShawnCowden]

how will this affect streaming ?
Earlier this week, we reported that AT&T was planning a trail of caps and $1 per gigabyte overage fees in the Reno, Nevada market, with plans to expand the trial into one additional market before the end of the year. djrob See Profile writes in to note that AT&T has defined their new limits in more detail, and have confirmed that the caps will also impact their U-Verse VDSL service. The new usage allowances, according to AT&T's FAQ for trial participants (see screenshot below if the link doesn't work for you):
AT&T Basic (DSL only) Up-to 768 Kbps 20 GB per month
AT&T Express Up-to 1.5 Mbps 40 GB per month
AT&T Pro Up-to 3.0 Mbps 60 GB per month
AT&T Elite Up-to 6.0 Mbps 80 GB per month
AT&T Max (U-verse only) Up-to 10.0 Mbps 150 GB per month
It's not precisely clear if AT&T has already decided to move forward with the caps and is simply testing the billing and network systems, or if they're seriously looking at consumer reaction before moving forward. If, like Time Warner Cable, the idea is to simply test and refine the marketing message to better sell consumers on caps, that shouldn't be too hard -- most consumers don't even know what a gigabyte is.

 

[btritch]

Mine here in Northeast Arkansas with ATT DSL is capped at 1.5mbps. That's the fastest they tell me I can get.. I don't believe it though.. I think I can get the 6 mbps but they say the phone lines won't support it.. Anyways, It is capped at 1.5mbps and they did tell me this when I hooked up, But with my local cable company I was paying 40.00 for what was supposed to be 1mb but ended up being about 0.5 mb and was slow as hell.. Switched to att dsl 1.5mbps for 20.00 and wish it were faster but it's better than what I had before.. Besides Hughes Net Satellite that's the only two options I have besides crappy dial up.. Moral of story.. Here in Arkansas it is capped as well.. In my particular area at 1.5mbps...

 

[ShawnCowden]

you dont understand capped means how much u can download or upload per month kinda like a water meter and once u go ovet that they will charge one dollar per gig
what ur talking about is speed how fast your internet can download and upload per month two diff things just to clear it up

 

[btritch]

Oh.. You're right, I mis understood, You're talking about like if for example you go over your kb limit on your cell phone charging per the kb for every one you're over! I see! They do that and I WILL be going back to my cable provider!! I misunderstood that, I get it now, That's ridiculous! You pay for it, It ought to be unlimited in my opinion.. I'll stop there I could go on all night on that.. lol

Thanks for clearing that up. I did misinterpret that one, Big time! Sorry 'bout that..

 

[ShawnCowden]

its kewl but thats what small government and big business does to this country. so much for streaming anything really and also so much for online games etc.
also its not just at&t doing this others are following their lead. read more stuff at dslreports.com

 

[iMONITOR]

Comcast started this first. They set the limit at 250GB/month.

 

[MOTORHEAD3902]

What does small government have to do with this discussion. I am not trying to start a fuss, but I don't see tha connection.

 

[N_Jay]

. . . .but thats what small government and big business does to this country. . .

Hu?

You think if the Gov gave us Internet service it would be better and cost less?

What world do you live in?

 

[rdale]

This will not have an impact on streaming - that's WAY too slow to cause data counters to rise.

 

[Livewire3286]

Well I did a check on my broadcasting computer a few weeks ago when this topic came up and I am broadcasting 2 TSpeak feeds, and 2 icecast feeds on it. I am only using 3 GB of bandwidth a month. So I dont think it should effect many.

The problem is going to come in when your downloading videos, or music.

 

[nexus]

I agree with rdale and IBN01. My feed is only set at 16k upstream and for the last 234 hours of streaming has only calculated to 11MB upload to the icecast server. I don't think as far as a feed is concerned will even come close to their caps. Now if you have 2 or 3 feeds, and then you're running PTP sharing, and you run something like a slingbox you're gonna get screwed by the capping. Otherwise just a one feed user like myself won't see any effects by this.

I use AT&T DSL. Its interesting to know they're doing that though. I run a single feed (soon to be two feeds) on one pc, and my other main pc I run ORB server to stream all of the audio and video on my pc to my work pc. And I have been considering getting a slingHD so I can watch HDTV at work through the pc. That might cause a disturbance in the force. hmmm

 

[rdale]

Most places haven't talked about capping uploads anyways, just DL.

 

[Skud]

news story is here
http://www.gearlive.com/news/articl...aps-verizon-says-no-plans-to-cap-fios-or-dsl/

 

[ShawnCowden]

well as u all may know I am a democrat and I believe in smaller business and a little oversight on business what most of u all would call big government. Verizon just bought alltel I mean come on who is next ? pretty soon it is going to be one company for everything. I am just tired of the monopoly in this country also I can't wait to see sec chairman kevin cox step down as well as fcc chairman kevin martin which I do believe is a democrat himself and if so he has made some awful rules while in there. Oh btw the guy looks like a computer nerd.

 

[ShawnCowden]

well as u all may know I am a democrat and I believe in smaller business and a little oversight on business what most of u all would call big government. Verizon just bought alltel I mean come on who is next ? pretty soon it is going to be one company for everything. I am just tired of the monopoly in this country also I can't wait to see sec chairman kevin cox step down as well as fcc chairman kevin martin which I do believe is a democrat himself and if so he has made some awful rules while in there. Oh btw the guy looks like a computer nerd.

This doesn't mean to let the bandwidth hogs get away with it either but put a reasonable cap on the internet come on satellite has more cap on some plans then at&t does

 

[N_Jay]

well as u all may know I am a democrat and I believe in smaller business and a little oversight on business what most of u all would call big government. Verizon just bought alltel I mean come on who is next ? pretty soon it is going to be one company for everything. I am just tired of the monopoly in this country also I can't wait to see sec chairman kevin cox step down as well as fcc chairman kevin martin which I do believe is a democrat himself and if so he has made some awful rules while in there. Oh btw the guy looks like a computer nerd.

I guess you have forgotten that we had the best phone system in the world under AT&T!

 

[N_Jay]

This doesn't mean to let the bandwidth hogs get away with it either but put a reasonable cap on the internet come on satellite has more cap on some plans then at&t does

and who is to determine if the caps are reasonable?

Maybe the consumer by staying of leaving?

"Now we are just talking crazy talk!"