Metered Internet

[belashti]

Time Warner Cable To Test Metered Internet Access (http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=208401833)

that would suck!

[Bill_Marsden]

Amen Bro!

[augiedoggie]

LOL, stop griping. I get charged $8/GB after my monthly allotment of 20/10.

[BILLMCC66]

I have 35 GB which i rarely go over but if i did its 7 euros (about 8$) per GB

http://img440.imageshack.us/img440/4929/is2plv6gwuoypljnbnbowumxs1.png (http://imageshack.us)

[BILLMCC66]

I don't know how it works in your country (you don't say which) but here in Belgium my ISP has a site for users where you can log in with your password and see at any time how much you have used for the month plus lots of other things about your account.

[Krebain]

right-o. Boycotting Time-Warner. I use every bit of my service, while it runs, and I intend to keep it that way.

[ynot]

I pay for 8Gb/s and actually get 7.6Gb/s because the exchange is only over the road.
This service is unlimited but Tiscali do have a fair usage policy. This costs £15:31 a month and i also pay £2:97 a month for Norton internet security.
The service is very good but there customer service is diabolical.

[Phantom]

LOL, stop griping. I get charged $8/GB after my monthly allotment of 20/10.


Similar thing over here. But most ISP's have a means of checking your usage on your account site.

[Halo]

[B]I found Bandwidth Monitor, and I'm using the free version for now.

Lenny this one allows you as its free to ad an alert notification to when your close to your bandwidth limit per month, http://www.majorgeeks.com/Down2Home_d1704.html ( may need in some cases to got the developers home page an download full version )


I do think as the internet is more easily accessable to all and PCs are reletively cheap these days that metered internet is going to be the norm, luckily my ISP is unmetered at present.

[BILLMCC66]

I am no authority on this but if you are downloading from a P2P you are also uploading to others on the site the portion that you have downloaded and as long as you are connected to the site it will continue to upload this is also counted in your allocation of bandwidth.

[Grayfox]

i have 1500/256k ADSL
25GB of downloads
after i go over i get shaped to 64/64k
i use bigpond usage meter gadjet, love it

i pay $45/month

[Halo]

However, a quick question I hope you ladies and gentlemen can answer. In the Bandwidth Monitor program, it shows both downloaded and uploaded. Downloaded I understand, but uploaded has me mystified. Exactly what is uploading from my computer? I thought I had my system locked down tight as a drum. Please inform me of this ignorance on my part...as you all know, I love to learn!! Prank/Lenny

Yes if your using p2p you will be uploading, however the main part is you will always be uploading some data as soon as you connect to the internet as even clicking a URL is you sending data to ask for the page.

[Grayfox]

http://img206.imageshack.us/img206/2275/usehw4.jpg
DL: Download
UL:Upload
F:Free Usage
S:Shaped
D:Delay
PD:Per Day
DEF: amount over PD use

[musksnipe]

Test to see if your ISP is throttling you.
http://broadband.mpi-sws.mpg.de/transparency/bttest.php

[BILLMCC66]

See what you started Muskie i just tried to run that test and half the world is also trying

[musksnipe]

See what you started Muskie i just tried to run that test and half the world is also tryingLOL When musksnipe speaks, the world listens? :dood
BTW, Comcast is not throttling this area apparently.