I know this is not a great comparison, but I use my iPhone all I care to and only use about 600 MB of the 2 GB I am allotted. I would think if you use more than 150 GB in one month that you definitley need to 'get a life'. And I would tend to believe what they say about only affecting 2 percent of the online AT&T subscribers, although I can't back it up personally.

I have to use DSL at my house because the cable here sucks big time. Too many users and not enough bandwidth. It bounces up and down like a yo-yo. Sometimes dipping as low as 56 K. Have you ever tried to play BF2142 at dial-up speed. One frame your at silo 2 and the next frame your at silo 3 with your throat cut. :)

thier dvr and tv service is really not bad, thier dvr has a shit load of features...... just internet sucks so i would get cable internet and get the tv service from them..... we have brighthouse time warner i hate thier tv service

Time Warner isn't horrid but FiOS is definitely best-in-class.

Caps? Iv had a Comcast (Cumcrap) cap for a year now. Welcome to my world. The world of horrid packet loss, terrible ping, and stupidly bad up time. I finally had to move to DSL. Its slower but atleast I know my ping will be the same no matter what.

Originally Posted by Duke

I know this is not a great comparison, but I use my iPhone all I care to and only use about 600 MB of the 2 GB I am allotted. I would think if you use more than 150 GB in one month that you definitley need to 'get a life'. And I would tend to believe what they say about only affecting 2 percent of the online AT&T subscribers, although I can't back it up personally.

Duke that may be true but you aren't using your iPhone to download 12 GB games via Steam or downloading game patches at 2 GB a pop. Also don't forget when you are in a multiplayer game you are constantly using bandwidth. Now I don't have definitive numbers of how much bandwidth a two hour multiplayer session uses but why should a person even have to worry about it?

*EDIT*

I did a little googling and it seems that the average multiplayer game uses 10 MB an hour of bandwidth. Assuming you used 40 MB of bandwidth a day it still only equates to a little under 1.20 GB for an entire month so I guess it's a moot point.

I found a Windows sidebar gadget that will monitor usage and I'm going to give it a whirl just to get a more accurate estimation:

Network Meter Gadgets

Originally Posted by Frit0z

i wonder how much bandwidth i use on an average month with gaming, downloading anime, watching netflix and hulu streams. gotta be quite a bit.

I measured data usage on Supreme Commander two years ago, it's about 250mb/hr. I'm not sure what the data usage is with BC2 or other first person shooters but I'm interested in finding out. At 250mb/hr you would get 600 hours a month of usage before bumping into the cap. That's roughly 20 hours a day of gaming. On the flip side, you use a LOT more data downloading music and video, which is the second biggest reason behind this new rule, directly behind making more money. This plan does absolutely NOTHING to directly ease any congestion on their network, it is simply a cash vacuum. Nobody is going to adjust their usage because of it, on the other hand it gives ATT that proverbial foot in the door to start turning the screws from a different angle down the road.

Originally Posted by DarkWarrior

Caps? Iv had a Comcast (Cumcrap) cap for a year now. Welcome to my world. The world of horrid packet loss, terrible ping, and stupidly bad up time. I finally had to move to DSL. Its slower but atleast I know my ping will be the same no matter what.

LOL WUT?




Just redid them so you can see some consistancy on my end:



I can do that all day long too. I was recently worried about my usage and I have checked. My normal without netflix and downloading this and that usage is under a gig a day so the cap will rarely get close. But it is indeed very much possible for me to hit it in a few days without trying as well.

Originally Posted by cplmac

I measured data usage on Supreme Commander two years ago, it's about 250mb/hr. I'm not sure what the data usage is with BC2 or other first person shooters but I'm interested in finding out. At 250mb/hr you would get 600 hours a month of usage before bumping into the cap. That's roughly 20 hours a day of gaming.

BC2 uses next to nothing, I cant quote of the top of my head but in the hours ive played the last 2 days, including my youtube anf forum browsing i didnt even hit a gig.

ATT&T just bought T-mobile for $39 billion.