[olug] OT - Cox to start billing for people using more than 1tb a month

[Justin Reiners]

Really? that is interesting. I haven't heard anything about the business
side. If that is the case they might just lose us as a customer, I move
backups between sites as well.

I just emailed our $human over there asking about Residential, Business,
and Small Business.

We have cable internet as a backup to their fiber, It went down for a while
a few weeks ago. We attempted to run the business heavily QOS'd with SIP on
our failover cable and it was horrible. Next time the phones stay down.

/grumble



On Fri, Jan 27, 2017 at 10:51 AM, Rob Townley <rob.townley at gmail.com> wrote:

> Our Cox business account also has the 1TB  cap.  100/20 w /16 subnet. We
> usually contract for 5years so maybe would contest until contract is up.
> Got the email the same day the new FCC chairman was approved.
>
> I am wondering how well VOIP will perform without QOS at narrow bandwidth.
>
>
> On Jan 25, 2017 12:11 PM, "Justin Reiners" <justin at hotlinesinc.com> wrote:
>
> > I use about 1.2TB/mo currently, luckily I have small business with no
> cap.
> > I cut the cord. I use a combination of YouTube, Plex, Netflix, and PS
> VUE.
> >
> > Internet is about $200 for 100x30, so this is always an option for the
> home
> > users who dont want to worry about caps.
> >
> > On Wed, Jan 25, 2017 at 11:46 AM, Ben Hollingsworth <obiwan at jedi.com>
> > wrote:
> >
> > > On 01/25/2017 03:21 AM, Aaron Grothe wrote:
> > >
> > >> Cox is going to put a 1-tb / month usage limit on all of their
> > >> residential cable users.  If you go over 1-tb they will happily bill
> > you at
> > >> the rate of $10/50 gb after that.  This limit applies to all speed
> > tiers.
> > >> I thought they would give top level people an option of having more,
> but
> > >> nope.
> > >> Keep in mind 1-tb is a lot of data, I fully acknowledge that.  You
> have
> > >> to wonder though with more people cutting the cable cord and going to
> > >> internet entertainment.  More HD/4k content how long until 1tb starts
> to
> > >> look like a pretty low amount, and cox gets closer to that paying for
> > every
> > >> byte model they'd love to have.
> > >>
> > >
> > > Wow, that's really low for people with high-speed access.  I only have
> > > 12/1 Mbps at home, which drops to about 3 Mbps on evenings & weekends
> > > (don't complain to me about your lack of ISP options).  The kids watch
> a
> > > little bit of Netflix, but we limit that.  I hardly ever touch my
> > computer
> > > at home any more.  Still, if my monitoring is correct, I use about 373
> GB
> > > down / 46 GB up per month (averaged over the last year).  Judging from
> my
> > > time-of-day graphs, the lion's share of that is from Netflix.
> > Presumably,
> > > somebody who sees value in paying for a 60 Mbps or faster connection
> will
> > > use considerably more bandwidth than I do.  That's gonna get pretty
> > > expensive!
> > >
> > > --
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