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With new consoles out... how are y'alls data caps holding up?
- Thread starter Musubi
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I can't imagine having a data cap for home internet service.
That shit needs to go like, last year.
That shit needs to go like, last year.
I have about 400gbs left with a week or so left. Shit sucks honestly. Miss the days were I didn't have to worry about this BS. Between Gears 5, Gears Tactics and Borderlands I think thats about 170gbs or so. Thank god I held off on getting any new games for the time being.
Seems I used (on PS5) ~150GB yesterday. It's probably going to wind up being around 220GB as I'm still downloading Fallout 76's update. It sucks to have to think about, but I came into things having planned out what I wanted to install, and having gotten an estimate for both download size and storage size. That way I've been able to keep a lid on the amount of data I've been using.
We should wind up being under the cap and it should be with quite a bit of data to spare, but it's definitely been something to keep in mind. It'd be nice if caps weren't a thing, though.
We should wind up being under the cap and it should be with quite a bit of data to spare, but it's definitely been something to keep in mind. It'd be nice if caps weren't a thing, though.
This. First I put in Dirt 5 and AC, which both took about 5-10% of data from the disc and downloaded most of the game. Then I browsed though Game Pass and proceeded to add 25 games to my queue totalling around 1.5TB and thought... I can't be the only one doing this...
ISP's must be getting slammed. That said I was capping out my max 100mbps bandwidth the whole time.
I've decided this month I'm just gonna let it go over if it needs to go over. I'm at 850GB out of 1.2TB for the month already, and I do still plan to at least grab Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate on my Xbox once the proper Series X version drops next week. This is on top of my partner and I having a pretty steady habit of 4K media consumption via streaming. Probably going over this month, but I don't care. I used my complimentary overage month already.
I've had Sparklight since December and got my first message yesterday about them charging me additional money for going past my limit this month. I went several hundred gigs past my 1.2 TB limit when I got my Series X. I haven't looked since I got my PS5 because there's not much point. It resets in 5 days and I should be good from then on.
Mine has absolutely shit the bed. But luckily I had one free overage left. I'm at 1.5 tb (bought both the SX and Ps5 so I had a lot to download). Im going to download as much as I possibly can.
GEO are doing regular pre-orders through their app! I put mine down Monday and will be getting it next week
I switched to unlimited fiber internet today, since I'm 400Gb out of 1000Gb two days after getting both consoles.
Not lottery but preorders? I joined the first lottery and didn't get through, and now I applied for the second lottery and let's see what happens.
I'll check the app again, but I didn't see any pre-order thing :(
Centurylink won't overcharge, they'll just send me an email warning, but I think they've removed caps for now due to pandemic times anyway.
Spectrum doesn't have data caps................................... yet.
They're planning to go asshole and get them in the near future, from what I understand.
I wish fiber was more prevalent in the US.
They're planning to go asshole and get them in the near future, from what I understand.
I wish fiber was more prevalent in the US.
To explain, in America, a companies like Comcast and Verizon have monopolies on internet services in multiple areas. Because of this, they decided to put a 1 Terabyte data cap on almost all plans, which only 5-10 years ago, used to be 100gb cap. They are well aware that streaming 1080p or 4k movies and TV shows and downloading and playing video games will bring your data very close to the cap, sometimes going over it, so that they can throttle your internet after you go over the cap and charge you a fee for it. Then when you call to complain, they offer you a pricier service in order to pay them more money anyway and they offer their slowly dying cable service as an alternative to streaming services to save you data from streaming so that you don't reach their data cap.
Thankfully I don't have any but that is offset by having some of the worst internet on Earth so you know.
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Luckily I checked and realized that I was almost about to go over and upgraded to unlimited for the month to avoid the pricey overage fees. I posted a reminder on ERA to check and consider upgrading and quickly found out that I'm an entitled shill for Comcast that reeks of privilege.
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PSA: If you are on a datacap broadband plan, consider switching to unlimited for all the downloads on your new systems
I just got my Series S and Series X yesterday. I noticed I only had 300GB of data left on my plan (I have a 1.25 TB plan) for the month so I upgraded to unlimited for the month and will downgrade next month. If you are on a data cap plan make sure you check so you don't get charged overage fees.
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I thought some ISPs throttle their speeds when you go over. Don't some of them throttle it so much you can only do light internet browsing which makes getting unlimited worthless?
It's not in many places which is why I'm paying well over $100 a month for 150 mbps internet.
Yeah I added a ton of gamepass games, AC, all the Ps5 launch games and more.
The good news is the new hardware flies. I was hitting almost 900mbps on ps5
Thoughts and prayers to anyone who doesn't have unlimitted data during these trying times, shit is gonna be rough.
In many places in US you have a choice of one or max two ISPs. Usually both suck unless you luck out and you have a fiber connection.
I have Verizon Fiber and basically told my wife that any house we look at in the future will need to have equivalent as a req. Kids stream/play their own stuff, wife has a work machine plus streams her own thing, and I have work system, media server, backup to cloud and stream/game. So yeah, usually hit 1 to 2 TB a month easy. More this month.
I really don't think that will happen. I actually talked to them about this when I upgraded my service, and they said they will never have a cap. They know they'll lose a shit ton of customers.
Shit, I'm on the fence on picking up a 400Mbps plan from Spectrum because my U-verse connection has been crazy flaky and affecting my work from home.
Is this on of those "in Trump's America things" that I can pray gets deleted under new leadership?
I hate the ISP situation in the US. I seethe daily over it. And I work for one which means I know all of the evils.
My state has a net neutrality law that is currently on hold, but tends to keep ISPs in check, so no data caps here.
