QOTD: How Much Would You Pay for Uncapped Net?

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Well for capped internet I would drop it instantly. I'll go without it I don't care. I will never pay for a capped internet that's bullshit.

For uncapped internet I would also pay nothing for it. I'd rather drop it.

Now for internet access I'll pay $54.99 for 20mb down and 5mb up. I think the terms "capped" and "uncapped" should not be used.

Never suggest you'll pay for uncapped internet because companies will think that you will pay for capped internet also!!!!

Stop using these terms immediately!
 
What I see here is what happens when there is no competition and how much your reality is distorted.

Shit man, that's some big amount of money you are all prepared to pay for something that's supposed to already be common place in 2009. I live in Romania and if some of you have no idea were that's it I don't blame you. Still we get 10/4 for 8 euro, at some other provider 20/1 for 20 euro and yet I can also get a third one in my area that offers 1.2 euro per each 1/1 Mb you get till a maximum of 20/20. Oh.. yes .. 3 providers and no caps.

Also we get lots(hundreds) of "free" network and national phone minutes and even share those minutes with 1 or 2 cell phones in addition to that.

I would say that what we get here is sensible. Hmm.. in a couple of years I'd say that's normal to have 100Mb at these prices.

WE ARE IN XXI CENTURY !!!! PLEASE REMEMBER THAT !!!!

!!!! QUIT IN MASS AND MAKE THEM SUFFER !!!!

We had times when net connections were VERY expensive. That's why we got in local nets that shared some internet pipe. Those nets grew, merged and what we got is healthy competition.

It seems that history repeats itself just the place is different.

Hope it helps,
Alex.
 
In Brazil I pay about 40 usd for uncapped 2 Mb / 512 Kb. I think it's too expensive andslow, but at least it's uncapped. The connection isn't rock solid stable, either.
 
Time Warner already kills me with 116 bucks a month for cable + internet. 116 bucks a month and now they are looking at capping my internet usage screw you TW...

In a house with 3 gamers who use things like Steam, Direct 2 Drive, online games, iTunes, and the X-Box 360 this is going to kill us. Sadly in my area it is Time Warner or horrible DSL so TW it is. It still has me ticked off at them for moving in this direction.
 
Biggest problem and reason why they are getting away with this is because in most areas the ISP that services the area has a monopoly or near to it. SOMETIMES, you might have one service that is cable and one that is DSL, but very unusual to see two DSL services or two cable services in the same area. Where I live, DSL wasn't even an option for a long time so we had to go cable for broadband. I have Comcast. It's VERY fast and we have the 250GB cap, but that's more than enough for me. Before we had Comcast, it was Time Warner Cable and I'm sure glad we don't have them now. But the only options we have here are dial-up (not an option really since it's SOOO slow), Qwest DSL (although not when we signed up for broadband) and Comcast Cable. If one of those decides to put a cap on, there are other options, but you might have to 1) pay more for the other service for the same speeds or 2) go to a lower speed if they don't offer the speed you were at. So it's kind of a lose lose. I hope this capping goes away
 
I'm an IT product manager - so, this is the kind of question I'm paid big bucks to answer. To fairly allocate the costs, I think everyone should accept that individuals who use more should pay more. The problem is, the ISPs are attempting to hide a rate increase inside of rolling out a pay-per-byte billing model. As I understand the current ISP proposals, everyone could pay more - but, no customer would pay less. So, everyone is unhappy. That is, I payed AT&T $15 per month last year for 756/128 kbs unlimited bandwidth - this year they want me to pay $15 per month for 756/128 kbs with 1GB free plus $1 per additional 1 GB. My take on this is that the price is too high - not that there is anything wrong with paying for usage. Based on my professional knowledge of network infrastructure and administrative overhead costs, my gut estimate is that $.10 (10 cents) per GB is a reasonable price that should allow AT&T to recover it's costs and make a reasonable profit. But, if they start charging for bytes, then they should reduce their base prices by 33% across the board - so that I would pay $10 per month for 756/128 kbs.
 
I should clarify, the $10 per month would work for AT&T assumming electronic/email billing, EFT payment, a required telephone service at $15 per month and the customer pays for the modem, installation and wiring in the home's interior.
 
$40 bucks. Lets not forget, without the ISP Customers, there is no ISP. It's a bit hard to sell ad space when you have under 1000 customers because they all left because it was over priced or invaded your privacy like ALLLLLLL of the major ISP's do now.

Read your Privacy and Use paperwork and you'll find out that company X can look at any site you visit and any file you download and you give them the legal right to store all that information for the state minimum requirements which is usually 7 years. Which means, right now, this page and its comments are being tracked by your ISP and everyone elses. You can thank our worthless government (and the worthless citizens for not taking their government over) for spending billions on nothing useful.
 
nothing more than what im paying now. Im not paying a company more for what i should be getting. Why should i pay more just because tv is dying?
 
Whats wrong with you people i pay 167 $ dollars a month with a 4.5 gig cap here in africa i wish i could pay as little as 60$ for uncapped.
 
Whats wrong with you people i pay 167 $ dollars a month with a 4.5 gig cap here in africa i wish i could pay as little as 60$ for uncapped.

 
[citation][nom]TheAfricanDude[/nom]Whats wrong with you people i pay 167 $ dollars a month with a 4.5 gig cap here in africa i wish i could pay as little as 60$ for uncapped.[/citation]

1) I don't get the question. the people are saying that's what they would pay for uncapped. For some who are already capped they are wishing to.

2) Maybe in Africa it's a little harder to run cables/communications when you have to worry about a lion eating your @ss or an angry water buffalo! Hazard pay is figured into your monthly bill?
 
I would pay $100/month if I could have an uncapped (and unthrottled) 30mb+ down / 4mb+ up connection.

At the moment I have a 15mb down / 1mb up uncapped (but throttled heavily for torrents) for I think $60 / month (though I get a discount with my cable service).

I'd like more download speed, but I NEED more upload speed. And throttling is almost as bad as a download cap (though at least I don't get overage charges).

On another note, one of my coworkers just moved into a new apartment building that has an integrated network that offers 30mb down / 30mb up uncapped and unthrottled for $30/month. Needless to say, I am envious.
 
I'm surprised they're not moving to a metered model, like the electric company uses. You don't get free unlimited electricity, do you? No, you pay for how much you use. If they charged $0.15 / GB that would be plenty fair. $15 for 100 GB. $45 for 300 GB. And so forth.
 
19$/month for 100Mbps up/down for HTTP in whole world and connections in center and eastern Europe, 10Mbps up/down to every other not HTTP connection in world 😛
Not capped of course
 
[citation][nom]wotan31[/nom]I'm surprised they're not moving to a metered model, like the electric company uses. You don't get free unlimited electricity, do you? No, you pay for how much you use. If they charged $0.15 / GB that would be plenty fair. $15 for 100 GB. $45 for 300 GB. And so forth.[/citation]

I bet once net speeds aren't really an issue, this may happen. I'd be willing to pay a set amount per GB, as long as prices NEVER went up and actually went down as infrastructure was upgraded. And also as long as the speeds were very high (say if today they were around 100mb+).
 
the whole cap thing is B.S. Remember it was just a few years ago that the Broadband providers were promising lower prices as more and more people adopted to broadband. I for one have never seen a decrease in my bill, and now they are trying to put a limit on how much I can use my service. B.S. What's next, a limit on how much TV I can watch before they start charging me more? simple a scam.
 
I guess it depends on where I use the net the most, at my desk or while I'm mobile.

For home/work use, I pay $30/month now for 3mbit dsl. I used to pay $20 for dailup, so the extra $10 was worth it for me. But I've been stuck at that price/speed for the last 5 years. It would be nice to get a 6mbit connection for $30 nowadays, especially with the HD streaming I can do that wasn't around 4 years ago.

But when I'm on the go with my notebook, choices are really limited. A 5GB cap really only does let you email and surf the web, things that any smartphone can do today. But a notebook lets you do so much more than a smartphone ever will, especially with an internet connection. Hey Dan Hesse, give me uncapped wireless broadband for $99/month - wireless companies should get with modern technology, give notebook users the tools they really need, and shove their 5GB limit up where the sun don't shine.
 
I dont know how your paying $60 for comcast, as there lowest tier is 42.95 as long as you have cable or phone with them. The cap is 250GB though I doubt 1% of Comcast's customers could touch that. And even then the 42.95 Tier is 12/1.
 
I dont think there should be uncapped net, or rather that ISPs should be focusing on uncapped plans. I rarely go over 1GB a day. People who do are usually just idiots watching a LOT of garbage entertainment or porn and if they want to do that they should pay, the rest of us shouldnt be forced to subsidize that. That's why there should be a cap. But companies have to realize that the cap should scale upwards over time so that it is never an issue for most people even though 2 or 3 years from now many more people might be hitting the current caps.
 
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