Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs

Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by rietta on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:20AM (#20694725)

I live and work from home in suburban Atlanta and data caps are everywhere for the last 8 years. The options are the monopoly Cable provider (Comcast), DSL not fiber, and cellular Internet. My home has poor cell reception. When Comcast implemented the 350 GB cap, I would routinely flirt with it. Had to change my online backup habits and more. Now it is 1 TB, which is more manageable.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by runako on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:36AM (#20694865)

Also in the Atlanta area, in an area fortunate to be serviced by AT&T Fiber & Comcast's high-speed option. AT&T offers unlimited* data plans on their highest-speed plans, or as an option on other plans:

https://www.att.com/help/internet/usage.html

* - they don't say it on that page, but obviously there is some mechanism by which AT&T would stop you from using the full symmetric 1Gbps constantly.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by wil421 on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @08:46AM (#20694930)

I’m in Atlanta. Before I moved from Dekalb I had AT&T fiber symmetrical gigabit and ran 1.5 TB some months without a charge. AT&T hasn’t built out fiber where I live now but I have a Comcast 1 gigabit connection. They offer up to 2 gigabit but it expensive. Cap is 1TB but you can go over for 2 months without being charged.

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Re:Netflix’s biggest bingers get hit with higher internet costs by dillonmckay on Wednesday August 14, 2019 @09:04AM (#20695081)

Was there a cap for DSL?

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