So for those of you who dont know, There's a limit on the amount of data you can download/upload via streaming and stuff, depending on your internet provider.
http://www.zeropaid.com/news/93341/att-rolls-out-150-250gb-monthly-data-caps/
Just check out the link^^^^^

Comcast also plans on doing this and i believe are ALREADY doing it. Whereas ATT users' data cap started yesterday.

Watching netflix svcks a lot of data, but the number one data svcker is Playing multiplayer games online. Especially if your hosting a match.
I know its not necessarily a BRINK topic but it does effect us BRINK players who want to play online.

this is INSANE!!!!

I know! The only internet provider i know of thats not doing it is Time Warner. But their not available where i live. Which svcks. If anyone knows of an internet company in Northern California that not doin this let me know.

im sorry bro .. you must have a better provider over there in california

This royally svcks considering i leave my ps3 on a lot, and usually connected online. It just makes me wonder how much bandwidth im really svcking down. I have never looked at it before. I think that those of us who signed contracts like I did with ATT should be grandfathered in with unlimited until we change our plan.

I thought so too. BUt they are indeed amending any contract. they did it by email too. You have a first month "grace" period. where if you go over this month, they wont charge you. but from here on out, its tough luck.

hmmm... i never got an email about this. i will have to look into that later

Lol calm down guys. Unless its like a 25 gig limit 99% of you wont have anything to worry about. From reading it, this new limit is in place for people who are consuming an absurdly large amount of bandwidth. Leaving your stuff on will only infrequently transfer a few KB of info every so often, usually status such as a system/program sending out a query such as "are you there?" and your system/program asking "any new messages" "any status updates?" "i'm doing this thing, or that". Just a guess, but i couldnt imagine more then 50 megs being transferred out over a day of idle. Gaming, on the other hand, can really crank it up, but unless your an excessive online gamer you wont use more then 30 gigs a month.

You MIGHT run into a problem if your torrenting... stuff... constantly, all day every day at max throttle, or if you have 4-5 people who CONSTANTLY play 24/7. Most people with a life however dont use more then 10 gigs or so just from gaming, and other things such as browsing, youtube, pandora will probably take up another 10 gigs if you do it frequently. If your using more then 20 gigs and you only do online games, your probably playing WAY too much, or your bleeding from somewhere else. My friends family uses an average of 35 gigs a month and thats 3 people who constantly do WoW/MW2/BC2 like 10 hours a day, while both parents are usually watching youtube, or doing facebook.

Dude, most people here in NZ would kill for a 250gb data cap.

The standard here is 5gb

pro tip dont leave torrents seeding/leeching and you'll be fine , also might be a good time to shut down that internet drug ring youve got going :celebration:

And you're lucky to see higher than a 30GB cap ANYWHERE.

I know, because I'm spending more money than I can afford on that, and anything more is going to cost at least $20 extra. Minimum.

in england most providers have a 30gb cap i do belive , and america get pretty cheap net compared to everywhere else , infact i pay more for my net than my american friend and he has 86mb DL 9mb UL and im on 10dl 1ul lol

Hm, if I'm not mistaken there is not even a cap here in Germany. What a good thing to live in a small country on the mainland. :laugh:

Thing is, in my house theres always someone here. If im not at work im usually home either watching netflix or playing online on my ps3. Then theres my cousin who does the exact same thing. and then his fiance who doesnt work, who watches netflix 24/7 and in between plays pandora. data usage in this house has got to be insane. theres never someone NOT using something. hardly ever.

This. We have the contract. It says absolutely nothing about a cap, so either we're grandfathered in, or they break the contract, losing a crapton of money, time, and public image.

These are times where I pat my self on the back for not having AT&T..

However, if more companies start to do this.... Well, thats a different story. :stare:

Now...how exactly does this work? Is it 250 gigs for an individual IP address or what?

Because my concern is that I live in a dorm of ~200 people... Now not all of them play online video games obviously, but I can safely assume a large chunk of them do.

Would this affect people who buy a server or what ever? I dont know much about servers, but it seems that they would be pushing lots of data ever month. A charge for having the server and an extra charge for all the data would svck.

Just the internet YOU pay for. and only for residential. If your internet is part of your school you wont have a cap as its "residential". its a "business"

well comcast has a 250 Gig download limit who the heck downloads 250 Gigs a month i mean seriously, if you download more then 250 Gigs you know something is going on

True, this is probably a way to get at the illegal downloaders.

Thank you sir, good to know :celebration:

this is how things are generally done elsewhere. your not alone. gameplay bandwidth is negligible voip is higher and we recommend a 2gb dsl service for our customers knowing full well they wont even get close to it. the only people hurt by this are pirates.

in Auatralia, passing the cap imposes speed restrictions on your connection from 25Mb down to 64Kb

So if I wanna download Brink from Steam in Australia I am a pirate? Because Brink is more than 2gigs.

25GB here! Which is okay, because I can never get through enough stuff to cap since my internet downloads SO GODDAMNED SLOWLY.

Seriously though you guys have nothing to worry about, a family of 4 (5 if you count my girlfriend who practically lives here weekends) have only capped our 25GB limit a couple times in the past few years... even at times where I've spent weeks at a time solidly gaming.


That's faster than my normal download speed bro. Try 2Kb once you cap. :thumbsup: