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Zorak   04-05-2009 at 07:51:50 AM

It turns out that Time Warner Cable wants to test out bandwidth caps in my hometown. I am incensed that these bastards are going to try to cheat us out of more money. I am hoping that their plan fails, but aside from switching internet providers, what other things can I do to stop this? It turns out that AT&T is also jumping on the bandwidth-capping bandwagon and will soon begin its own "testing" in Austin as well, which is why I ask what else I can do. I am a bit worried that the ISPs here will soon all begin bandwidth-capping and I won't have any way to access the internet as I see fit.

Cross your fingers for us here, and to anyone else in this forum with the same problem, you have my sympathy.

--Zorak

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randomizer   04-05-2009 at 08:11:05 AM
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What does this have to do with Linux? :kaola:

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MrLinux   04-05-2009 at 12:43:44 PM
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Over here in the UK bandwidth capping is the norm; if I use more than my ration in a month the speed gets cut, there are ways round it if you know how to "nudge" your IP address or (dare I say it) MAC address.

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MU_Engineer   04-05-2009 at 05:13:41 PM
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randomizer wrote :

What does this have to do with Linux? :kaola:



Maybe there will be a per-day cap that makes it hard to download Linux install images in one shot?

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Zorak   04-05-2009 at 06:32:01 PM
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MU_Engineer wrote :

Maybe there will be a per-day cap that makes it hard to download Linux install images in one shot?




BINGO! Not to mention the fact that watching streaming videos on the internet will become a royal headache...

-Zorak

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randomizer   04-06-2009 at 03:05:46 AM
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You could have at least said so! :D

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Zorak   04-07-2009 at 06:23:42 AM
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I suppose. Sorry for not being more clear!

-Zorak

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audiovoodoo   04-10-2009 at 05:48:33 PM
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Welcome to my wolrd, Zorak :( The only up side here is that I've just had a house mate move out so we are now 40Gb between 3 and not 4 per month.

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Bronze Linux badge linux_0   04-11-2009 at 03:34:26 AM
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This is terrible, there is an article about this on slashdot, they are planning to cap it in tiers, at 40GB you can't download more than 8 4GB linux DVDs per month.

:'(

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randomizer   04-11-2009 at 04:56:12 AM
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Welcome to my world, where we have 25GB :D

I have never downloaded a Linux DVD, only CDs.

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amdfangirl   04-11-2009 at 09:33:26 AM
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linux_0 wrote :

This is terrible, there is an article about this on slashdot, they are planning to cap it in tiers, at 40GB you can't download more than 8 4GB linux DVDs per month.

:'(



I live on 2GB a month! Uploads counted as well!

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randomizer   04-11-2009 at 09:50:49 AM
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You live with unmetered traffic too ;)

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amdfangirl   04-12-2009 at 06:01:06 AM
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true that...

Linux downloads are unmetered.

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randomizer   04-12-2009 at 07:29:58 AM
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My university ISP provides about 20 different Live CD distros which I can download on campus when I go there without it counting towards my 419MB semester cap.

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Zorak   04-15-2009 at 06:47:55 AM
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you get 419MB per semester of downloads? Wow. At my university, we get 500MB per week if I sign onto the public network, and if I am at one of the engineering computer labs, there are no caps. Furthermore, I have downloaded entire linux liveDVDs at school at rates approaching 14MBps (not 14Mbps). Of course, that was before we got broadband at my house, so now I do all my linux downloads at home. I swear to god, running gentoo will become a MAJOR pain in the ass if they start capping our bandwidth here.

--Zorak

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randomizer   04-15-2009 at 10:06:13 AM
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That's my student account cap. I download at about 800-900kB/s on campus from the university's ISP, and 9-10MB/s over the local network (it's only 100Mbps LAN).

Fortunately I don't think my staff account is capped, but I know they're still watching me so I don't download anything huge.

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amdfangirl   04-15-2009 at 02:44:49 PM
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Yeh, Australian Internet sucks.

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Bronze Linux badge linux_0   04-18-2009 at 02:17:28 AM
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It's been reported this has been postponed or may not happen at all.

http://tech.slashdot.org/article.p [...] 17/2030204

Good news for once?

:)

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amdfangirl   04-18-2009 at 02:28:20 AM
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Hooray for the media. Good enough to keep your liberties safe.

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Zorak   04-24-2009 at 06:06:16 AM
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So yeah, I am hoping that this will be the last of it. Hopefully if there is a round two, we can stick it to them again and prevail. *Crosses fingers*

-Zorak

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amdfangirl   04-25-2009 at 02:53:49 PM
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kewl, I just hope your country doesn't become just like mine with all those horrible shaping caps. I can't live life at 64k... :cry:

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