Well, they have really done it now. It seems that they have arbitrarily changed their internet plan that limits you to 300 GB per month internet usage. If you exceed this limit, they will charge your account an additional $10,00 for each block of 50 GB that you use that month. Is this legal?????? How can they keep shooting their self in the foot and stay in business? I can't do anything about this until the 2 years I am bound to them is up. This is NOT what I signed up for!
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Yup. It's legal. Time to start backing up movies and stuff on BluRay.
Snag it today, for tomorrow it'll cost ya. 
It's a marketing ploy. Bet that'll hurt.
if u-verse is available.. i highly recommend it!
You still on Comcast for ANYTHING ~
the !@#$%usage meter they give you doesn't work often and lies with great latency.
if u-verse is available.. i highly recommend it!
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It must be available in the Shoals; I get mail solicitations from AT&T all the time trying to get me to subscribe.
i get two , from comcast, daily... one at work, one at home. i've not had comcast in 15 years.
I'm wanting to know what you are doing to go over that 300 GB cap? I download heavily and stream exclusively to my hearts content and never come near it.
If you are an xbox gamer and you use Netflix or Hulu for your tv/movies then you can easily go over the 300GB limit.
If you are an xbox gamer and you use Netflix or Hulu for your tv/movies then you can easily go over the 300GB limit.
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If you spend an awful lot of time watching streaming movies, you will have to pay the price. I get along quite well with the 2-at-a-time-by-mail Netflix service. Their distribution center for this area is in Birmingham and the turnaround if really fast. I returned two DVDs yesterday, and two new ones will be here by tomorrow. I really don't have the time to watch any more than that anyway.
Netflix is GREAT! No overpriced theater tickets or absurdly high-priced theater snacks. I can start and stop the movie at my pleasure and eat from my very-well-stocked stash of snacks or even eat a complete meal while watching. I select from a huge inventory of films, most of which will never be shown in this area. I can lounge around in comfortable old grubby clothes. If I should fall asleep, I can just search back to where I started snoozing and resume watching. Who needs a 12-screen cinemaplex?
Netflix ROCKS!!
If you are an xbox gamer and you use Netflix or Hulu for your tv/movies then you can easily go over the 300GB limit.
I stream all my television and have a smaller quota. You can also adjust the quality on Netflixs, not sure about hulu.
Adjusting the data usage settings for your account is the easiest way to reduce the amount of bandwidth used while watching Netflix. There are 4 data usage settings to choose from:
To select a setting that works best for your Internet plan, navigate to Your Account and click Playback settings in the Your Profilesection. Restricting data usage may affect video quality while watching Netflix.
Yes, Netflix does ROCK! And so does Amazon Prime. I must stick it out with Comcast until next January at which time I will ditch them and go back to AT&T for internet and be perfectly happy without cable. AT&T still has my home phone. I signed up for Xfinity Triple Play in January 2013. Cable and Internet were established immediately but I have tried for a year to get my home phone transferred from AT&T to Comcast and Comcast can't seem to get it done. I have given up on that. I have yet to talk to anyone at Comcast via telephone who speaks clear English and can be understood!
AT&T has a cap too.
Yes, Netflix does ROCK! And so does Amazon Prime. I must stick it out with Comcast until next January at which time I will ditch them and go back to AT&T for internet and be perfectly happy without cable. AT&T still has my home phone. I signed up for Xfinity Triple Play in January 2013. Cable and Internet were established immediately but I have tried for a year to get my home phone transferred from AT&T to Comcast and Comcast can't seem to get it done. I have given up on that. I have yet to talk to anyone at Comcast via telephone who speaks clear English and can be understood!
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If and when you leave Comcast, do a couple of things, one go there, take all their crap back, and get a receipt, and on it, a statement that you are cancelling their service. Then, if you are on auto pay, be sure to keep a check on your bank act, or credit card act (depending on how you pay) , to insure they quit billing you.
Comcast is not an honorable company and has been known to continue to bill people that have ended their service and turned it over to collection. My son had all his paper work and still wound up having to get a lawyer to get them straight. Just be sure you keep all the paper work when you terminate the service.
AT&T has a cap too.
I have T, and if they have a cap it was never mentioned, and although I stream virtually all my TV I have never exceeded it.
uverse doesn't have a cap.
I'm sure that AT&T U-Verse has it's detractors but I'm not one of them. I LOVE my U-Verse account. I switched from Comcast (Xfinity) a while back and never was so happy. Now AT&T has great fast internet and entertainment packages that match anyone else in availability and quality.
As for Netflix I had Netflix and am an Amazon Prime member. While I know Amazon Prime is going up to $99.00 the next upgrade that is still not bad for the features it gives you along with the streaming movies that is available. And another service I haven't seen mentioned but I find is superior (my opinion) to Netflix and even Amazon as far as entertainment is concerned, is Redbox instant. With Redbox Instant I not only get the streaming entertainment but the ability to get four free rentals of movies that aren't available on any of the services yet. If you buy a lot on Amazon then Prime is the best of the three choices mentioned above followed by Redbox Instant and then I'd ad Netflix in last place. U-Verse also has a great many entertainment movies available for On Demand viewing, many which don't cost extra and a great many that come available with an additional $5.00 a month fee.
Overall if you have time on your hands there is something there to consume all your free time but as for Xfinity/Comcast I'd check with AT&T now and see if they don't have some promotion that helps pay for, or offset, your early termination fee that Comcast charges you to get out of that 2 year agreement. I know someone has that feature going.
I'm very happy with my Uverse from ATT (T) , for a year I got both high speed internet and telephone service with unlimited LD for $49 (or thereabout) / month. After the initial year is up, the price will probably go up as well. If it goes too high, I intend to buy one of those boxes that you can get telephone service for $19 a year to mitigate whatever cost increase they throw at me.
I still get TV off of Dishnet for a number of reasons , but if I could get my wife to agree, I would drop it all together and just use streaming and what comes off the antenna (perfect picture) for TV.
Trouble with AT&T Universe is that it's a snail in comparison with Comcast's hot internet.
I just got a phone call from a "person" at Infinity telling me we were approaching our monthly limit.
Good thing the grandkids are leaving for Spring Break as they watch Netflix all the time.
sorry.. uverse is faster than comcast.. trust me.. i have worked on both sides of it.. uverse is as fast as comcast.. on a bad day.. faster, on most. now, at&t's DSL is slower than comcast.. but, in my area, not by much.
uverse doesn't have a cap.
AT&T does have a 250 GB cap that isn't currently being informed because of a technical issue with the meters.
Residential AT&T High Speed Internet service includes 150 gigabytes (GB) of data each billing period, and residential AT&T U-verse High Speed Internet service includes 250 Gigabytes (GB) of data each billing period. U-verse with Gigapower, where available, includes 1 terabyte (TB) of data each billing period. The data you send and receive each month contributes to your monthly data plan.
Thanks, Chuck, for the link. I was set on "AUTO" so I changed it to "LOW" and will wait to see how that works.
AT&T has a cap of 250GB per month so I just might be better off staying with Comcast. I don't want to give up Netflix and Amazon Prime.
You're welcome, there may also be a way to check how your current usage online. I was a little paranoid the first month I had a cap and was able to monitor mine.
sorry.. uverse is faster than comcast.. trust me.. i have worked on both sides of it.. uverse is as fast as comcast.. on a bad day.. faster, on most. now, at&t's DSL is slower than comcast.. but, in my area, not by much.
Maybe 10-15 years ago they were equal. Nowadays, the fastest speed that's available for Uverse is 45 Mbps/6 Mbps, but it's not available in most places, and they basically have to run multiple lines to your home to achieve it. Meanwhile, Comcast's Blast package (the one that's reasonable in price is 50 Mbps/10 Mbps, but is being upgraded to 100 Mbps/10 Mbps nationwide throughout the year.
There's a reason why AT&T always says fastest for the price. They can't compete speed wise unless they decide to roll out fiber everywhere.
i'm not going by advertised numbers.. i'm telling you from experience.. working on different systems, around the area. btw, uverse is fiberoptic.
i'm not going by advertised numbers.. i'm telling you from experience.. working on different systems, around the area. btw, uverse is fiberoptic.
I'm speaking from experience too. 10+ years of network management.
Uverse in almost all situations is VDSL or ADSL2+. While they do run fiber to the premises (FTTP) in a lot of new developments, for most users it's fiber to the node (FTTN) This means, the fiber is to those large gray boxes that AT&T put around the neighborhoods that have uverse access, otherwise known as digital subscriber line access multiplexer (DSLAM) From that box to your home the connection is DSL based.
This is one of the main reasons why they don't offer the old "Max Turbo" package to every user it's was only feasible for people living within 3600 feet of the DSLAM. The "Power" plan is by bonding two VDSL2 lines together, which enables them to extend the distance to roughly 5500 feet.
If Uverse was fiber, then it wouldn't have the 4 HD streams at any given time limit. They wouldn't have to deal with connection profiles to make sure multiple TVs won't slow down the internet and vice versa. If you are going on the premise that because some of that network is fiber than you can call the entire network fiber, you can say the same about Comcast or almost any cable provider. Even more so when Comcast eventually moves to switched digital video.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...opper_b_2522703.html
http://www.dslreports.com/faq/uverse
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT%26T_U-verse
Do you want more info? I can keep going, and go as technical as you like.
I've heard Google Fiber is going to be rolled out in Nashville. I split my time between here and there. I hope its true.
local uverse is fiberoptic to the node.. and a 'two line' system is required if you're over 2000ft from the node, according to their plans. they're updating the lines, now. i consistently dl at around 2.2mbps... that's faster than anything i've seen comcast put out, anywhere around here.
Uverse is fiber to the node, not fiber to the premise. Meaning there is a huge bottleneck between your house and the node which is why speeds are not going to be anywhere near true fiber optic speeds. Personally for me comcast blows uverse out of the water, I get download speeds on average around 23-25mbps. Also virtually every carrier has a download limit, most just don't tell you about it.
copper to the premises is fast enough for TD goobers.
besides you can't afford fiber to your house w/hardware required.
