Managing a data cap with Online Gaming, Streaming, and a wife that loves Netflix

[Warpaladin]

Looks like I use about 60-70gb a month.

I easily do that in a less than a week :P

[Xargoth6634]

Yep. Technically I could get a different ISP I guess, I forget its name, but it only offered like 5 mb/s when I got my internet out here .

As someone who pays for 30mb/s and actually gets about 3, if that 5 was legit I'd change happily. Fuck you, Time Warner Cable.

[Szazi]

Plan with unlimited data? I use one, and it costs me 50 bucks a month...

Edit: I use about 1-2TB a month....yeah. (Household that is)

[Forscent]

After calling many times, apparently all of their plans have the same cap, just different speeds.

[Radio]

Beyond lowering the quality/quantity of your streaming and usage of Netflix there's not much you can do outside of plan expansion/2nd account.

Datacaps are pretty much a way of life in Australia so I'm used to my ISPs having a bunch of different plan tiers ranging from nothing to ludicrous.

[RicardoZ]

Best internet I ever had was back when I lived in Atlanta I had Xfinity. I had the fastest internet they offered, along with like a thousand channels of TV along with all the major Latin American channels for my wife, and a home phone that I never used for like $130/month.

Never heard of this business with data caps though...I know cell phone companies do it, but never heard of it for home internet. I'm surprised any company that has such a policy even manages to remain in business.

[Vynestra]

I just checked my usage....I apparently only use like 60 GB a month tops, out of my 300 xD...