How will this affect video games?

Didn't they get a huge grant from the government that was supposed to pay for infrastructure upgrades and then their execs just pocketed it all instead and never faced any consequences?

>but you are taking up space that could be used by someone else
Only if your infrastructure is third world.

Perhaps if they spent some of their obscene monopoly profits on infrastructure expansion and maintenance this wouldn't be an issue?

streamers drop back to 720p

ISPs claim only the top 5% of users reach the 1TB limit. If that's true they shouldn't it be a non problem for the network load? Even if it does that means they have enough of a subscriber base to afford upgrading to increase said load.
The town I live in built their own fiber lines and created a city ran ISP and it's easily the best internet I've had, and at one point, or still is in the top 5 best ISPs in the country.

It won't stop until someone is hung in Minecraft.

hopefully, there will be less americans on the internet

it only affects people who still download and play videogames, so nobody here

In seattle, they removed the 1tb cap to unlimited when covid hit. Is it going back? Ive been downloading 6tb of anime this past two months and seeding every torrent I have. I better start downloading more before the inevitable happens again with the datacap.

>tfw small Southern town with options, including local phone company's fiber

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Imagine living in such backwards, third world country.

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>tfw have Spectrum and dont have a data cap (yet)
Feels good man

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Don’t Poles leave Poland to clean toilets in England? You shouldn’t talk

>he doesn't have 0 ping
Never gonna make it, try moving out off the coastal hell holes and joining civilization chump

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Ignore this faggot. This is literally not why they do it.
ISPs pursue data caps because it's fucking good money. Low caps push people to more expensive plans with higher data, or paying a premium cost for "no cap" service on top of what they're already being billed. Even the overage fees are a secondary concern. This is why the ISPs with the most jewish caps have been experiencing the most growth and the most excitement from faggot shareholders, and why more companies are introducing them(and will continue to introduce them.)

I wanna see what's it like to have burger internet, I'm mexican and pay roughly 20 bucks a month for uncapped internet. What would my cap be if I was in burgerland? Talking about the cheapest service over there.

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>Comcast is the only ISP in my shithole town in New Jersey so they have a monopoly in all of America
lulz, loser

user how come your ISP lets you have a quantum entanglement connection?

The Trumpazee has done a lot to hurt our internet
Bidenchad will fix it

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that's because more people are using internet than ever, of the companies used their insane wealth to improve their services this wouldn't be an issue, they're placing all the cost unto the consumer.
It's BS

A decade ago, I had a letter from them asking if I was running a home server. Apparently, using >700GB of bandwidth in a month is a red flag and should be investigated.

>monopoly
No, it's an oligarchy. Similar, but legal.

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The connection to the upstream provider is not that far away.

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I dunno, my internet has improved exponentially under Trump. Under Bush and Obama is was unbearably shit.

Yeah I'm sure signing on to the TPP will do wonders for us.

IMAGINE
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Nice job burgers.

It's not home servers that's the problem. It's when you try to run an actual website with significant public traffic that they try and upsell you on the (((small business))) plan.

>imagine
We don't have to.

This thread makes Australians seethe
TFW you realise the average internet speed in America is 100mbps

It refreshes each month. And I think you get a few chances before they start charging you. It's still dumb, but Comcast has has a 1TB cap for years, not sure if they're increasing it to 1.2TB now. Suppose it's to stop people from using it as a high traffic server without paying for a business account. Even when I was constantly pirating I never hit the cap.

per month? thats more than enough even if you want hd vid all the time

how is the life in africa, op?

Exactly what they tried to do. A shame, I should've just ran the ROM site of my dreams and told them to fuck off.
Instead, I had just bought a new harddrive and went fucking nuts torrenting shit.

Yes.

What does a natsoc need 1.2TB of data for? Shurly not to consume degenerate media products.

And their women also go to Germany to prostitutes themselves.

The only thing you will do is work overtime so you can have enough to pay for bills after being taxed for free healthcare / education / reparations for niggers while funding the replacement of your race through critical race theory

Fuck ya Spectrum bros

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I'm in California so I already had the 1tb cap. it got raised to 1.2 recently. my only option is att and they offer worse speeds and smaller cap. the bay area has largely been gerrymandered into a split between comcast and att. there is no "choice"

Go back to your echo chamber with your schizo ramblings, Zig Forumsturd

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ISP phonedrone here.

Heavy users are not the problem; old infrastructure is. Old infrastructure runs well enough under normal conditions to retain enough typical customers for an ISP to not give a shit if power users seek alternatives. Increased usage by all customers, caused by COVID, helped to reveal glaring issues that have been apparent for ages— copper cannot handle modern traffic in areas with any kind of population density. Copper can barely stay running due to general damage caused by weather.

ISPs don't want to upgrade because it's a pain in the ass to organize and pay for replacing miles upon miles of (mostly) residential copper infrastructure. The main lines between population centers are already fiber that can handle more traffic than currently exists. Business customers are often connected through a fiber line that exists in parallel with older copper infrastructure. These main lines are often leased out piecemeal to smaller ISPs. Comcast is big enough to own much of its own infrastructure.

Newborn local ISPs, like yours with its own fiber lines, can work because they're new. They can't charge customers to deal with the shittiness of copper infrastructure because they don't have any. Their service is superior because it's starting with good equipment. The problem is dealing with local politics— officials can be convinced/paid off to believe that an upgrade, let alone a local startup, would be more of a hassle than just letting copper be shit while the old ISP that owns it practically prints money (while barely maintaining said copper).

Yes. US Govt is a fucking joke.
The reason why the two party system exists is so the big corporations can minimize their risk exposure and figure out who to buy. You'll never be truly free.

Comcast finally started installing fiber in my area recently. Not sure how much it'll cost though, it's already pretty expensive for a moderate connection from them, and they say you have to rent a modem from them for fiber and they keep raising the monthly rate on that too.

Try being australian, you fuckers