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>buy a game on steam >it's 55gb

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>buy a game on steam
>it's 55gb
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reminder that even the 3rd world doesn't have data caps
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How do you burgers even use up that much data
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>>377641232

Burgers have data caps? LOL
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Works for me :^)
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>>377641738
God bless lack of competition and capitalism.
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>>377641612
burger here
OP is retarded
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>>377641838
CORN??
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>>377641915
>wi-fi
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Paying for what you use is only fair. Some people don't use much data at all while some people are data hogs why should they pay the same? Dumb having to pay for an all you can eat buffet if you're just a little peckish.
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>>377641993
router is out by tv and i dont feel like running a cord all the way from my living room to my pc
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>>377641612
In my household there's 6 things hooked up at once and almost all of them are running Netflix or YouTube at some point, when I had my old job I used to download tons of porn to, usually new hd releases of bbw javs
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>>377641232
This is getting out of hand. No game should be over than 2 DVDs without expansions.
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>>377641612
Why does that matter? There shouldn't be a limitation like that anyway. I didn't even know that data caps for home broadband was a thing until I started browsing 4chan all those years ago.
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>>377642107
If you make your game 50 GB it will be prohibitively large for pirating. Patches as well
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>>377641442
that's because the CEO's are pirating shit too
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>>377641738
Very soon they'll have to pay their ISPs extra to get access to Youtube.
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>>377641738
Not in any service I've had in my life. Massachusetts.
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>>377641442
Brazil is going to have data caps soon.
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>>377642197
If you make your game 50 GB it will be prohibitively large for buying. Patches as well.
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>>377642197
Pirates will just dummy cut, like they did back when CDs were king.
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>>377642052
Fairly certain that's not really how bandwidth works for an ISP. One user using a lot doesn't affect anything at all, 100 million users watching Netflix on a Saturday night does.
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Fitgirl repacks don't have this problem.
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>>377642085
Why not?
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incoming rage material:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CE9OuNK-QWg
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>>377642393
yeah instead they just turn you into a miner lol
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>1024gb cap

lucky you anon. I have 250gb. have to watch shit like youtube at 480p and I never download 1080p shows/anime/movies and I still sometimes go over
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PS4 play has never look so bright.
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>>377642471
didn't you read my first post? i'm american.
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>>377641232
>Almost a full fucking terrabyte

>Every single fucking month

Dude, how.

I'm CONSTANTLY streaming video and I still barely break 200gb a month
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>>377642478
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>>377641232
What the hell are you downloading?
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>bandwidth cap
Is this really a thing?
Where?
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>>377641232
What racket are you running there, son?
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>>377642575
They don't sell cable clips in America or something?
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>>377642052
my isp used that justification when they went from no cap to their 250gb cap

the thing is, they didn't lower rates. so the people who used less data didn't actually get to save money, it's just the people who use more data get to spend more money
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>>377642052
Literally the only reason for non-mobile broadband to have bandwidth limitations is to price gouge. Unlimited bandwidth doesn't increase the costs for the people not using it up.
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>>377642478
>Comcast

I'm glad I live in Kentucky where I don't have to deal with this shitty service.
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>>377642279
thats what happens when you let (((them))) in to """improve""" your country
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>>377642478
whats wrong with the video?
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>>377641856
This is where de-regulation has brought us
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>>377642761
What makes you think the lower price was any more correct? I mean, perhaps you were underpaying before instead of overpaying after.

>>377642798
Obviously it costs them more to serve larger amounts of data. Don't be silly.
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>>377642750
no, i weigh 600 pounds and i need a lift to move me anywhere besides my pc
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>>377642501
yes where is the proofs
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>>377641612
downloading 30 hd/4k kpop videos a day
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>Use more electricity and electricity bill is higher
Fine

>Use more water and water bill is higher
FIne

>Use more internet and internet bill is higher
FUCKING COMCAST
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>>377641232
fuck you
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>>377641232
Why are you posting this again?
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>>377642478
what is even the context for this?
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>having data caps
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>>377642478
Is there something factually wrong with the video, or are we just raging at the references to twitter and tumblr and the overall reddit-tier normie-ness of it?

Because it's factually sound, as far as I can see.
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>>377642478
holy fucking normalfags
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>>377643039
I don't remember there being a cap on electricity or water. What's America going to do next, make a cap for grocery shopping like if you go over $200 you have to pay an extra $20?
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>live in literally 3rd world country
>have FREE 10mb connection with no caps
>literally FREE dont even have to pay for it

what the fuck is wrong with burgerland??
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>>377642478
Where's the rage? They are right. Most people buy their hard drives in terabyte increments. Are you telling me you go through a hard drive every month?
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>>377642804
I also live in Kencucky. What provider do you use?
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>>377643165
a comcast commercial trying to reassure customers that a 1 TB data cap is reasonable

>oh it equals this excessive number of songs or this crazy amount of video etc.
except these numbers are only applicable if you used the entire TB for one thing
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>>377643054
>10 dollarydoos for 10 gb
holy shit
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>>377643227
the guy makes it sound like a terabyte is this impossibly large crazy insane size that is basically unreachable

he did so by using incredibly pointless things like tweets which are just a few kilobytes, when in reality, its just a few copies of DOOM or GTA V
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>>377641232
>1TB Data limit

m8 only my phone has a 1TB "fair usage" limit. What Jew controlled shitbox do you live in?

>Pic related
>Your ISP
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>>377643378
AT&T U-Verse
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>>377643039

If you only paid for what you used like other utilities, then this would be fine.
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>>377641738
Yeah. Not all of them tho. Internet in America is really awful becuase its basically 5 huge companies that have backdoor meetings with each other on how to get people to like having thei ISP's fists shoved up their asshole and enjoy it.

My ISP doesn't have data caps but they do something much worse they shut off your Internet if they catch you torrenting movies and they just don't give a shit because its either them, or satellite. I mean, I use VPNs and Proxies to bypass it, but its the fact that they even do it that pisses me off.
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>>377643379
The only people who get close to a terabyte are piratefags.
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>>377641232
The new wolfenstein?
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>>377642052
The problem with that, is that's treating data like water, or electricity.

Data isn't a resource. It's information conveyed by an already perpetually existing resource. You can't "Use up" data the same way you use up any other resource or utility.
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>>377641232

>comcast doesn't tell people that you can pay $50 more for unlimited but will charge you up to $200 for going over the cap.

lol
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>>377641232
>being so cucked that you have a data cap on your home internet
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>>377643408
Maybe the problem is with DOOM and GTA V then.
Games looked perfectly fine in 2004, and you could download eight 2004 games a day with a terabyte.
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>>377642478
>all those thumbs down
>disabled comments

Oh I am laffin
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>>377643408
>its just a few copies of DOOM or GTA V

Dude, a terabyte is 1000 gigabytes.

D44M is 45 gigabytes.

A terabyte is still 45 copies of D44M.
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>>377643662
>games looked perfectly fine in 2004
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>>377643662
games have become incredibly bloated, but data caps are shitty as well
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>>377643550
I don't know how much it costs them to push a kilobyte but I do know that if their users use more data they'll have to invest in more and more infrastructure. It's not a perfect solution, but making users aware that there is a limit changes their behaviour. The same way people eat more from buffets than a la carte (and they usually over eat with the former and that's not good for anyone). Do you think it's fair that the average users should subsidise the data hogging minority? I don't.
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>2017
>data caps
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>>377642478
If 1 TB was some magic number that no one ever reached, they wouldn't even need a cap in the first place. Why put a cap that no one will reach? I'm sure if a very small percentage of people go over 1TB, and this video makes it seem like literally no one will go over, then it won't hurt them at all to have no cap.
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>>377643408
How many copies of GTAV do you download a month?
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I had a 300GB cap.

I think after 2 weeks i was getting phonecalls telling me i was close to my limit.
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>>377643790
>doom is 45GB

In what World? It's 78GB on my machine
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>>377643807
>the data hogging minority
DATA

IS

NOT

A

RESOURCE
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>>377643790
DOOM is 78gb after all is said and done. 12 and something copies.
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>>377642960
do NOT question the invisible hand
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>>377642478

This is some next level Jew work right here.

>It's okay to be cucked on how much data you use at home, goy.
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>>377643039
I would fucking love it if they charged per GB because then I would have to play like 1 buck a month for my internet.
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>>377641232
What's up with this data cap meme?

I've lived in the United States my whole life and have never had an ISP tell me I can only use a certain amount of data. That's shit you see from mobile phone service providers, not home ISPs.

I bet these people dealing with data caps on their home internet live in some backwards shithole in the south.
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>>377643807
>they'll have to invest in more and more infrastructure.

Nearly all the companies fucking people over with datacaps have a monopoly in cities and easy access to do whatever they want infrastructure.
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>>377643790
GTAV is pushing almost 75 with its online DLC and any shooter these days with graphics is 55+ minimum. Youre still stuck in 2010 with your storage thinking.
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>>377643960
Network size and disk size are different things.
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>>377644041
>backwards shithole in the south.
shit hole flyovers are actually in the north west
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>>377643790
>1000 / 45 = 45
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>>377644041
>I've lived in a major city my whole life
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>>377643898
>>377643960
My math was off in the original, too, it's 22 copies, not 45.

And even then, how many games are 78 gigabytes?

12 80-gig games a month is still a FUCKTON of game a month, no matter how you slice it.
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>>377641232
what the fuck did you download 900 that's worth 900 gbs?
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300/300 fiber for 35e/month here
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>>377643790
>45 * 45 = 1000
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>>377642052
Because data isn't a finite resource and it doesn't cost more to put more of it through a pipe.
>food analogy
oh never mind.
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>>377643009
it doesn't though unless you're on wireless

stop sucking CEO cock
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>300 copies of Jurassic World

In 4k, its only about 50 copies or so. So for a family for 4, that just over 10 films a month per family member, which isn't that much.

Comcast is is going to kill 4k streaming from ever taking off.
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>>377644134
Nah I actually grew up in a small city of about 50,000, maybe a little less.

With that said, it's true that I've never lived in a backwoods shithole like you probably do.
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>>377643662
Its more of the issue in that the only company that bothers to compress these days is Nintendo. Everyone else has the mentality of "well memory is cheaper than ever so who cares lol"

I DO. I DONT WANNA SPEND MORE THAN NEEDED ON FUCKING MEMORY
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>>377643925
Sorry, my post was clearly too complex and I'm sorry for trusting that your brain works. Here's some more easily digestible greentext:

>be data company
>have a 1gb/s data cable that splits to all my 20 customers
>19 are being all nice using an average of 50mb/s
>one fat anime neet downloads anime bluray rips and pirated games and averages 500mb/s even if he pays the same
>realise this isn't fair
>give him and everyone a data cap that doesn't affect anyone but the data hog
>fat anime neet has to pause some of his downloads and cries on 4chan
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>plebs that don't use 1TB a month

The fuck are you doing?
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>>377644120
Yeah, I fucked that one up. Wholly unintentional
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>>377644268
Just buy the 4k internet plan. Only 1000$ a month
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>>377643925
So you think Comcast can service an infinite amount of customers, all downloading infinite data with no changes to their infrastructure or cost to them?
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>>377643807
But that's what we are already playing a monthly fee for. Access to their network and infrastructure. Caps is basically a way to get us to pay twice.
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>>377644120

>streaming
>posting on /v/
>torrenting
>browsing the internet
>patching games
>playing online
>updating whatever

it adds up.
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>>377643009
The cost of delivering that data is next to fucking nothing.
There's a reason why even shit-tier countries like Romania can offer high speed internet with no data caps at super cheap prices. Because it's fucking cheap to do so.
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>buy disc game to avoid huge download in crappy dial up connection
>disc is a shortcut to download the game
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>>377644214
what the fuck did you download that's worth 900 GBs*?
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>>377643662
you're using subjective taste to defend an internet providers monopoly on one of the most important pieces of technology ever created in the history of our species
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>>377644316
Or you could live in some part of the country that isn't a shithole and use all the data on your home internet that you want
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>>377641232
>having data cap in 2017
Wew lad hopefully i am not an overweight burger.
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>>377644280
I live in a town of 5k in rural wisconsin and my ISP doesnt have caps or give a fuck when you pirate. Its just retards not looking for the best option.
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>>377641232
>Data cap
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>>377644345
What program is that?
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>>377644316
>thinks data usage and bandwidth speed are the same thing
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>>377644268
CAN you stream 4k video yet? I don't think that's even an option yet, I think you still have to actually buy physical copies of things for that, still.
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Rate my past year of usage

note: june 2016 is when i got (dekstop) internet back for the first time in a year or so.
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>>377642337
>most of a games size now is from uncompressed audio
>repacks typically give you the option of using them or compressed for a much smaller dl size
Pirates win again.
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>>377644373
>>377644358
>>377644249
The more data people use the larger data cables or whatever the companies have to buy. Data caps modify people's behaviour so they use less.

And don't worry, you can usually pay if you need more - just like you do everywhere else in life and that we agree is fair. Like at the supermarket you'd pay less if you only want one banana compared to a whole basket of groceries.
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>>377644373
>There's a reason why even shit-tier countries like Romania can offer high speed internet with no data caps at super cheap prices.
because they have more infrastructure than they have population using the infrastructure

the cost goes up exponentially when you need to use more and more lines of the router/switch to provide more bandwidth
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>>377644357
>So you think Comcast can service an infinite amount of customers

They wouldn't have to if they wouldn't block competitors from getting into cities.
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>>377644515
forgot pic

sage in all fields
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>>377644474
Windows
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>>377641232
Even my fucking phone plan got unlimited data.
And i pay only 16€/month for it.
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>>377643358
Burger companies are kikes just like yours. The difference is that your internet company has nothing to gain by jewing you over because you couldn't afford it anyway.
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>mfw cox
>mfw data cap but impossible to hit even if I spent the entire month torrenting
>mfw they dont give a shit that I torrent
>mfw no throttling
If theres a downside to this ISP I havent encountered it yet
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>>377644392
No, I'm just saying that it's shameful to be wasteful.
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>>377644494
They're not but they are related. The problem is that this fat anime neet is forcing the company to buy a bigger data cable (and therefore making the other customers subsidise his over usage) only to serve him. That obviously isn't fair. With data caps the people who actually use the most and inflict higher costs on the company carry those costs themselves.
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burger here

120 down 12 up no cap $70/month

OP is a faggot
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>>377642478
>a TB is 16 friends gaming
>for a month each

Wait what?
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>>377644373
>profit margin
>96%

>costs to revenue
>2533%
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>>377641738
I've lived in several different states in the US and never had data caps. I always thought it was specific to Australia and Europe.
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>>377642501
Fitgirl's repacks have been surgically taken apart many times. If there was a miner in one of them it would be front page news.
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>>377642478
Should she, /v/?
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>>377644542
>The more data people use the larger data cables or whatever the companies have to buy.
You're an idiot. Data is not a resource, if the isp has the bandwidth/infrastructure to provide a 100mb service then they can keep it going infinitely unless they cut the electricity. If the company wants to expand to more users they don't buy "bigger cables" to get more shit to go through, they buy more cables to connect it to their hub. It doesn't cost an isp any more if every single one of their customers are using their full bandwidth 100% of the time or using it 1% of the time.
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>>377644909
Just don't click on any images ending in .png.
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>>377644814
You clearly have no idea how any of this works, stop embarrassing yourself.
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>>377644542
>The more data people use the larger data cables or whatever the companies have to buy
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>>377642804
I live in Kentucky and its what I have to use, either that or Windstream.
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>>377644909

Oh God, that's real.
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>>377644542
>The more data people use the larger data cables or whatever the companies have to buy.
IT'S A SERIES OF TUBES
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>>377645047
ky fag here also - we have time warner/spectrum
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>>377642478
>pronounces gif with a hard g
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>>377645040
>Comcast can send an infinite amount of data to an infinite amount of people at no cost
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>>377643504
Since I got an account for netflix/amazon/hulu I was regularly passing their old 300gb cap, that rarely happened when I only pirated shit.
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>>377644542
>The more data people use the larger data cables or whatever the companies have to buy.
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>>377645150
>jiff
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>>377644373
Oy vey need them margins for that lobbying
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>it's 1.44 mb
>it's 10 mb
>it's 50 mb
>it's 100 mb
>it's 500 mb
>it's 1 gb
>it's 2 gb
>it's 5 gb
>it's 10 gb
...
OF COURSE THE SIZE IS GONNA GO UP
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>>377643807
They should already be investing more in their infrastructure regardless but they don't fucking bother because they have no competition. American internet is a joke compared to some actual third world countries because the internet companies don't need to give a single fuck and even have people like you who will defend their cheap bullshit.

>tfw Google Fiber starts making moves on Oregon and Comcast doubles everybody's speeds practically overnight
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>>377645174
No, they can send an infinite amount of data to their customer base for no more cost than if they just left their power on (which is exactly what they do)
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>>377641738
>>377644041
What's even more crazy is data caps for mobile internet appears to be going away here in the 'States. Too bad you'll be throttled to what might as well be dial-up speeds after using a certain amount of data, that and shitty ping.
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>unlimited data
>but the speed is third world tier

NBN can't come soon enough for me lads
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>>377641232
>data cap
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>>377644953
>if the isp has the bandwidth/infrastructure to provide a 100mb service
And where do you think this infrastructure comes from? Do you think they just happen upon it? Nope, they have to pay to build and maintain it.

>>377645040
>>377645107
>>377645221
Yes? I'm not necessarily being literal, but I'm talking about all the infrastructure required to send and receive data. And I'm sure cables are part of that.
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Here's the thing about data usage, at least, in the US.

We here in the states have a HUGE infrastructure problem. Everyone can agree it needs to be upgraded, but the ISPs and the government have been arguing for decades about who should be paying for the upgrading.
So we're left with a deadlock, and more than 80% of the data traffic in the US is carried through copper cables still. This is why data caps are still a thing.
It's shitty, and it's entirely the fault of bureaucracy at the end of the day.

HOWEVER.

While not, strictly speaking, *wrong*, and while the ISPs are indirectly and unfairly cramping your style, downloading more than a terabyte a day, routinely, is fucking shitty and wasteful.
Seriously, watch some of the carefully cataloged 4k anime you've been meaning to get around to for the last few months before you start downloading new shit.
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>>377644589
Costs which has already been subsidized extremely by the American government. Big cable companies aren't making insane profits for nothing.

>>377644829
That's in 2011. In 2013 it's 97% and 3227% revenue. There is no doubt a lot of hand rubbing at Time Warner.
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>not pirating fitgirl(male) repacks.
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>>377643519
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>>377645192
Probably because you pirated shitty YIFY torrents
>Jurassic.World.1080p.YIFY
>282mb
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>>377644542
>And don't worry, you can usually pay if you need more
Thank you Mr. Shekelstein. You are my greatest ally!
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>>377645174
Yes, they have to run cable. They run that cable once. You obviously don't understand how much data can be sent over a fiber line. One single strand of glass (of which there are hundreds in a fiber cable) can provide 1 TB/s service to tens of thousands of customers.

Though in Comcast's case, a large portion of that bandwidth is taken up by their video service.
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>>377643009
>What makes you think the lower price was any more correct?
>Paying for what you use is only fair
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>>377645495
Tb/s*
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>>377645378
>downloading more than a terabyte a day, routinely, is fucking shitty and wasteful.
It's not like the internet is a finite resource.
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>>377644909
Glad I'm not the only one that noticed that.
Get fucked Comcast.
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The kikes at comcast want to raise me to 70ish for internet + tv. How do I get around this? I just need internet. Should I cancel for a couple of days then rejoin to squezze their nuts?
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>>377645348
I live in a third world country and pay only ~$100 for 100Mb.
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>>377641232
>10$ for 50gb after limit up to 200$ a month
>9mb/s
>50$+base price for unlimited bandwidth
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>>377645373
Those cables will influence bandwidth in terms of how much data can be transferred at any given time, as in internet speeds. It doesn't affect data caps because the cables won't suddenly break from being overloaded with data or whatever it is you're imagining.
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>>377645174
Yeah, its called cable TV.

Amazing how you can watch and DVR non-stop 24/7 but the exact same pipe needs a 1TB limit for the exact same data from the internet.
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>>377645293
Yet HDD prices have gone down like, 7% in the past 5 years, 4TB is still like 120-140 and 1TB is still 45-50.
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>>377645495
>Fiber line

This is the US, mate. Our internet is made of copper. We get speeds slightly better than dial-up.
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>>377644474
Cancer 10
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>>377645569
No, but human life is, and downloading lossless audio and putting it in a storage drive while always meaning to get around to it eventually is certainly a waste of it.
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>>377641232
>2017
>limited traffic
Is this real world? Why is this even happening? Even in my humble 3rd world country that gets through the day by selling oil and gas to the white man this ended many years ago.
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>>377645373
>And where do you think this infrastructure comes from? Do you think they just happen upon it? Nope, they have to pay to build and maintain it.
Exactly. To which we pay a monthly fee. Caps shouldn't come into it.
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>>377642478
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>>377645561
The uncomfortable truth for people who whine about data caps is that to most people 1TB is, as this video earlier pointed out, more than enough. These data hogs get upset that the other customers to a lesser extent pay for the minority's extreme usage.

>>377645719
I'm not imagining anything, dear. Take a break from posting and consider what happens to average data usage when you limit the total usage. It would necessarily drop.
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>>377644739
>cox

Cox is also REALLY awful in many areas. Constant disconnects, slower speeds, etc. One issue is that in many areas they just use Comcasts lines and comcast fucks them over super hard.
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>>377644542
>The more data people use the larger data cables or whatever the companies have to buy

No, the number of people using the internet at the same increases the cost of the infrastructure required you fucking moron. The data cap could be 1GB, but if everyone tried to download a 1GB file at the same time it would still be fucked.

Why should users have to pay extra if the problem is that the ISP has more customers than it can handle? Everyone is using the same lines.
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>>377645373
>they have to pay to build and maintain it.
Yeah no shit, and that's what the rate is supposed to be for, plus a little for profit. Again you're an idiot, because you seem to think that someone downloading 1gb verses another downloading 100mb is somehow more extraneous on their infrastructure. The only reason it could feasibly cost more is because it would take longer to shit out that extra 900mb, meaning more electricity.
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>>377645569
Don't mind me, just using this non-finite resource for my "shipping" business. :^)
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>>377646026
Guess Im lucky. Im in a shitty part of Oklahoma and I dont deal with that shit.
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>>377645405
no you don't understand, it's a physical fucking problem to merge all of these connections
you can only pump so much data in and out of these devices at the isp's isp (level 3, etc)
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>>377645782
Comcast uses fiber up to the nodes and feeder cable from nodes to taps. From taps to devices, it's coax. Comcast is also working on going fiber all the way until the inside of the house (some places already have that).
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>>377643852
Its preparing for 4k so everybody is already used to being raped before they start using the spiked strapon
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Just get Comcast's streaming service. They don't count anything you stream through that toward your data limit.
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GET OUT THE HOUSE YOU FAT NERDS
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>>377645764
HDD prices the last year have actually went up in several areas. Similar to years back, we are running short on components for certain types of drives. Just in 2015 you would constantly see 500gb SSDs for 85-100 for a well known drive. The best deals on shit drives for 500gb are now $115-125. Drives still transfer at max of Sata 3 capabilities with similar IOPS, but the brands are worse.

Platter drivers are barely going down at the rate they were 10 years ago. The last 2 years has seen barely any price drop per gig.
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>>377646017
>These data hogs get upset that the other customers to a lesser extent pay for the minority's extreme usage.
That's not how it works anon. We have been over this.
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>>377641232
what in the god damn is this? what dystopian shit hole do you live in?
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>Live in third world country
>4 isp in my area
>They are engaged in price wars
>200mbps unlimited for $80
Now this is free markets.
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>>377646017
>The uncomfortable truth for people who whine about data caps is that to most people 1TB is, as this video earlier pointed out, more than enough. These data hogs get upset that the other customers to a lesser extent pay for the minority's extreme usage.
Everyone in this thread is calling you out for how stupid you are, you might as well just give up.
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>>377646101
dont mind me, just pirating all of those trucks
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>>377645495
What about those data center nodes? Those are not cheap to maintain and many of them are old as fuck and falling apart, a few dating back to the 1900's when telephones were becoming a thing. I'd hate to see their electricity bill.
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>>377645782
Fiber hits more homes than copper in any non shit area. Better yet, almost all copper in US is DOCSIS3.0 now capable of 100-300megabits down and 100megabits up.
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>>377642279
>source: my dad works at the internet
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>>377641232
3rd world resident with 500kb download speed, sometimes i'm grateful I live in this shithole when it comes to online freedom and data caps, but the speed is an issue
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>>377646204
>>377646242
It was true before this shit thread started, it has remained true as we've posted and it will keep being true. You two going nuh uh because you don't understand it (or whatever your reason might be) won't change anything.
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>>377641442
>reminder that even the 3rd world doesn't have data caps
Third world didn't have electricity or water metering either. Because that was expensive to do.
The only reason why third world doesn't have data caps is simply because they don't have the tech to measure it and enforce caps.
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>>377646242
He's not wrong, though.
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>>377646280
Hell, Comcast started rolling out DOCSIS 3.1, which is providing up to 1 Gb/s.
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>bandwidth caps
>politicians genuinely believe not supporting bandwidth caps will stifle growth

god with that and the incoming death of net neutrality i really need to get out of web-dev and into security
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>>377646185
Well, I wasn't referring to SSDs, with which the NAND demand has caused bullshit prices, plus now SSD's are coming in lots of prebuilt laptops and such very commonly.

As for bulk storage and archiving, it's bullshit how little platter drives have dropped in price, I want a 4TB HDD and it costs 3 times the price of a 1TB drive.
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>>377641232
Unlimited 4G data
5000 texts
100 mins
£13 a month
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>Having a data cap in fucking 2017
How horrifying.
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>>377646017
>Take a break from posting and consider what happens to average data usage when you limit the total usage. It would necessarily drop.
I'm not arguing that. I'm saying there is no benefit or reason in limiting data usage on non-mobile broadband other than cable companies wanting to earn extra money from nothing.
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>>377645378
>downloading more than a terabyte a day
Who the fuck manages to download a terabyte a day? Comcast's cap is monthly which is shitty in the modern day of streaming fucking everything. There are three people in my house, including me, and we get far too close for comfort to that cap between constantly streaming videos and music or downloading movies and games. Buy a couple games and everybody has to fucking ration out the bandwidth. God forbid that somebody reinstalls Windows.
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>>377642509

Nonsense, when I was 250 GB cap on comcast and charter awhile ago 480p youtube never got me close, let alone 720p.

>1080p shows anime movies

Found your problem. Maybe stop watching shit?

Anime sucks, there aren't any good movies and tell me how many different TV shows you start downloading every month each year. I bet it's only a handful.
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Daily Reminder that Americans spent 4k-7k per household for nationwide fibre-optic
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>>377645407
Is Lahey the Comcast of Trailer Park Boys?
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>>377646639
The point is to limit usage so all the databits fit through the network. If people use too much they have to build more infrastructure. Come on, this isn't so hard.
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>>377645348
Australia is third world m8
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>>377643227
I can play games and stream anime at the same time while downloading another game or music
People do more than one thing at a time on their computers often
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>>377646558
>Unlimited 4G data
That gets throttled down to 2G after using a few gigs.
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>tfw have unlimited data plan
altho I only use about 400-500GB a month
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>spending all that useless fucking data for your shit yify movies streaming to all of the IoT hacked devices in your own poo-in-the-loo home
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>>377646732
see
>>377646685
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>>377641232
>My internet plan: BLAST
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>>377646185
>Platter drivers are barely going down at the rate they were 10 years ago. The last 2 years has seen barely any price drop per gig.
Hard disk drives are a dead end technology to be replaced by flash completely.
Price-wise even optical media has catched up and competes at the $/GB level.
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>people complaining about data caps
Fuck you niggers, at least you have Internet. Comcast and att are the only providers in my area, and they both refuse to give me Internet.
I used to live less than one mile away from my current dwelling and they were tripping over themselves to sell me their garbage service, now they're too good for me apparently.
Cunts.
God I hate Florida.
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>>377643519
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How much does /v/ pay for internet?

I pay $60 for about 18mbps with no caps. It was $40 a few months ago
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>>377646802
Nope. It's "all you can eat". There's no bandwidth limits up until something unreasonable like 1TB, in which case they'll get in touch first.
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>>377646941
No, sorry. Doesn't exist.
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>>377646385
According to one ISP their cost of infrastructure amounts to 1% of their revenue and even Comcast themselves have said that data caps isn't about bandwidth usage.

Want to know why it's so widespread in places like America but not in Europe? Because in Europe none of the ISP's have a monopoly and if they tried to jew people with caps people would just switch to another ISP who didn't do caps.
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>>377646940
27 € for 16/3 Mbps with no caps.
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>>377646940
$70 for 220/11 with no cap
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>>377646648
well I said I don't download 1080p shows and shit if that wasn't obvious

and honestly I don't watch much of any of them. I've watched 2 movies so far this year, and I watch 1-2 tv shows each season and 1-3 anime a season

my dad binge watching shit on netflix is probably the real culprit. nigga's gone through 2 season of a show in the last week
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>>377646992
I mean, it does. Stay mad :^)
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>>377641232
>buy
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>>377647003
rural america is fucked once net neutrality is actually gone

enjoy not having steam and foxnews
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>>377645339
Been like that for ages in Europe
Surfin the web at sick 20kb/s
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>>377646824
>25 Mbps
Jesus christ anon, if you're gonna get fucked in the ass by Comshit at least get decent internet.
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>>377642478
>race traitor family
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>>377641232
I hate this. Recently downloaded Bamham Knight and that was 50gb. My internet isn't that bad so it only took me a 2-3 hours but I'd prefer all downloads to be 30min or less.
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>data caps

Feel bad for you Americans t b q h f a m

I have caps on my phone internet but I barely use it anyway
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Looks like GCI. I got aids from the internet here in Alaska within days of arriving.
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>>377646940
20 mbps for 20 equivalent burguers in my third world country.
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>>377647124
Did you miss the part where 100gb is only used for this month?
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>>377646940
$70 with no cap for 200+mps. That includes a $15 fee for no caps in burgerland
I only have one ISP in my area and it's ok
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>>377646940
$50 for unlimited data and decent speeds.

If I end up staying in San Antonio (I probably won't, this place is a wetback infested, rainy shithole with the worst roads I have ever seen) I'll get their fiber.
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>>377646941

Bullshit, I googled and they don't even do that anymore.

>Back in 2010, Three launched the One Plan including 2000 minutes, 5000 same carrier minutes, 5000 texts and All-You-Can-Eat (1TB) of data with unlimited tethering. Over the years other plans have allowed for unlimited tethering and while they still offer several plans to include this incredible amount of data, they no long offer any with unlimited tethering, with a maximum of 12GB on the more expensive plans. Evidently seeking to end the people using their phone in lieu of home broadband. In 2014 they announced all remaining One Plans would be phased out and now any customers still on these plans were transferred on to the closest current plan on January 26.

They stopped last January. So if you're not tethering (which I doubt you are, if you're not then fuck you dumb phone poster)
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>>377646940
$50 a month with pic speed no cap, it's good enough to download games and patches and anime and mp, but no multitasking but well we can't have everything.
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>there are people on this god forsaken earth who actually need to worry about data limits on their home computer
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>>377647224
>Having a data cap
That's even worse.
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rate my third world internet
no gay data caps :^)
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>>377646940
50 bucks for unlimited 250Mbit/s.
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>>377647303
Its horrifying really. It would stess me out as fuck if I had to worry about shit like that.
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>NZ
>100GB monthly data limit, because rural
>literally never had an issue
Videos don't need to be 480p, and "AAA" gaming is a meme.
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>>377647003
i bet it has to do with media companies losing money to piracy
there arent any movie company investments overseas in eastern yrpeen shitholes so over there there's no incentive to initiate data caps through back door deals from media and movie companies
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america truly are the most cuckoled nation in the word
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>>377641738
Yeah but at least we can link to streaming sites without going to prison.
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>>377646940
$70 for unlimited 1000mbps

thanks google
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>>377641232

Buying into capped data plans.

How fucking dumb are you?
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>>377641612
>3 people houshold
>2 pcs, 6 tablets, 3 tvs, 1 homeserver that doubles as pirating box and plex server
>roughly 1.4tb usage per month
>excluding ip tv thats not counted towards bandwidth

most of that shit is probably jdownloader on the server downloading shows and movies for plex though. youtube might also be a significant part.
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>>377646940
18dls a month, 10Mb download, 1.5Mb upload, no caps

yeah it's shit but who cares I can play Overwatch just fine and rarely download heavy games
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>>377647605
Some people don't have a choice anon.
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>>377647117
>tfw my friends mobile internet is faster and cheaper than my broadband
It ain't fun to live on an island. Even in Europe.
Even worse is they are building fiber connections right now where my apartment is but my landlord won't shell out the money for it.
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>>377645339
WTF HOW DO I MAKE THIS POST GO AWAY?!
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I was curious about it, so I checked my data just now.

My household is me and my 18 year old brother, and we're both streaming, torrenting and gaming constantly. I was really expecting it to be higher.

Now I REALLY want to know what you people are doing to hit a terabyte a month regularly, because I'm not holding back at all.
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>>377642052
>data hogs
data is unlimited. the limited resource is bandwidth, which is what you're fucking paying for. data caps exist solely to Jew more money out of people. places with competing ISPs have no data caps and better speed, and still turn a profit.
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>>377646940
I'm >>377647124
$62 + $10 for Blast shit.
I refuse to use their shitty modem though.
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>>377647340

>implying your speed matters when you actually connect to a non-yuropoor country

Go on, post the USA ones, where all the content and servers actually are.
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>>377647734
Household consists of me, my brother, and my sister.
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>>377647130
> but I'd prefer all downloads to be 30min or less.
I hate you so god damn fucking much. For me it takes around 80-90 hours to download a 50gb game.
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>>377646940
20$ for 50/5

which was a big mistake because once you get super asymmetrical you get buffer bloat.

And the only way to get rid of buffer bloat is to run a linux PC as a router.
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>Spend money on shit you can get for free
>Don't have money for shit you need like unlimited internet
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>>377643379
It is though. If you're using more than 10GB a month then you're doing something that's probably illegal.
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>>377642478
The only people who don't know what a terabyte is aren't going to be the ones freaking out about going over it, and everyone else is going to have spread awareness that they're now capped on how much internet they get a month. The fuck were they thinking?
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>>377641232
>get game for free on windows 10 store
>125gb
....not worth it.
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>>377648003
Streaming 4k video from Netflix or Youtube is illegal now?
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>>377647475
I think most of it is just down to the fact that a lot of European countries have "shared cables" between ISPs. So when one company is building out new cables all the other ISP's can use it too. So no monopoly.

Corporations and their endless lobbying is one of the most damaging things in society.
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>>377644154
You're not looking at things in the long run. Just barely ten years ago the highest most games got were around 8-12GB now we're reaching nearly 50-100GB.
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>>377647828
steam has servers everywhere
so does every relevant internet service and even web sights
it's not the 90's anymore, ameri-friend

I think they want to add symmetric upload by the end of the year by the way :^)
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>>377647794
>Have Blast
>Speed is nearly half yours
Well, fuck you too, Comcast.
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>>377644669
>>377643358
>Always here muh burger meme
>75mbps with no cap
You only have yourself to blame if you're not on charter or one of the other ISPs with no caps
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>>377647290
Your google-fu is shit
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>>377648351
Are you using their shit modem or a decent router?
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>>377648003
Stop being a shitter fishing for (You)s, you tech illiterate
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>>377641612
i hit almost 1 tb one month
it was a fuckin fun month let me tell ya
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>>377641232
We used to have caps here in New Zealand, but no longer!
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>>377647931
Yeah, that's actually really fascinating.
Do you use Kodi, or any other streaming services at all?
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>>377642478
Why do hard-G fags get so butthurt over the correct pronunciation of .gif?

Fucking the man who created the file type, and everyone on his team pronounced it with a soft G.
Deal with it you fucks.
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>not hacking your modem
>year of the lord 2017
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>>377648398

>on all T-mobile plans, if congested
>30GB
>speed is throttled

T-mobile goes down to dial up speeds when throttling.

Get the fuck out of here lmao.
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>>377648653
We don't have cable, so not only do we use Kodi, I've actually got a Fire TV that's literally just for pirating shit.
We also use Netflix.
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>>377647290
For whatever reason I never got took off the plan.
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>>377642478
CATES FOR THE INTERNET POINTS!! CAT TAX!! :D
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>>377648593
Same here in Brazil, only mobile lines have datacaps nowadays, but they are trying to bring caps back to home connections again
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This is surprising. I download so much and i'm not even breaking half my allotment. hmm.
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>>377648774
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>>377648003
I had to deal with a data cap of 10 gb/month for most of my life and if you seriously think that is a reasonable amount you are an idiot.
My guess is you're just baiting
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>>377643039
It's actually

>pay for the amount of water you use
>pay for the amount of electricity you use
>pay for a specified amount of bandwidth, whether you use it all or not, then pay an inflated price for exceeding that amount
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tfw
>Russia
>no data limits for at least 7 years on every isp
>pretty cheap and good connection

well, this place is still a shithole, but at least internet is fine
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>>377648735
You wanted an unlimited plan you got an unlimited plan.
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>>377648003
>Stream The Fellowship of the Ring on Netflix
>suddenly police bust through my door
>"You are going in the slammer crook!"
>they beat me half to death
>have to pay for the medical expenses
>forced to sell my house to afford them
>spend the last week looking for the underground netflix streaming network so I can finish watching the trilogy
Such is life in America.
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Daily reminder that ComCast will never go away and will become a megacorporation a thousand years from now and start a galactic Jihad.
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>>377648219
The reason games can hit 50-100gb now is because of uncompressed audio and video. It's all unnecessary padding.
No game NEEDS to be 50-100gb these days, they just are because they can be.
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>>377648685
I'm not saying the creator is wrong, just that he's stupid.
>>
Our cap is a terabyte. Literally unreachable for us. 350 KB/s. Even if we were using 100% of that for 100% of the month, we wouldn't reach it. That's also the maximum the infrastructure in our area supports, and it won't be getting improved for at least two years. I live in a wealthy suburb. In you already know where, cunt
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>>377649048
why
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>>377643039
>Electricity requires lots of maintenance and is somewhat difficult to maintain and has an entire department dedicated to maintaining said electricity
>Water is similar, and in addition it is also a finite resource, and is extremely difficult to recycle in many cases
>Bandwidth is functionally limitless, the only real issue is congestion
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>>377646017
>The uncomfortable truth for
I know you think you just came up with a nerve-striking point but it's kind of hilarious how irrelevant that actually is. I use less than 200GB a month myself and I find the idea of a cap absolutely abhorrent.

It has nothing to do with how much you use and everything to do with the fact that it doesn't cost anything to keep someone's internet turned on beyond a few cents a day, and if you honestly believe the people like me who don't use a lot of data are somehow paying for the people who pirate literal terabytes of whatever, you're a fucking moron.

It does not cost any more notable amount of money to provide more data for your consumers, and as someone who does tech support for an ISP, I can tell you it often costs literally nothing to give someone higher speeds, as there's plenty of bandwidth not being used that they can freely tap into, even in America's shitty copper infrastructure.
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>>377641232
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>>377649029
Not a day goes by when I will not be mad at Metal Gear Rising for being 20gb badly rendered videos, and only 3gb of actual game.
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>>377643039

Water is a physical resource that actually costs a decent penny to supply to individuals.

Electricity is a massively limited resource in most places and most methods for generating it poison the earth.

Internet bandwidth is only limited artificially by ISPs except in places where the infrastructure does not exist in a modern way.
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>>377646940
100/10 for 70 maplebucks a month

it used to be way, way worse
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>>377649074
>wealthy suburb
>shit internet
Pick one.
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>>377649029
The reason why everything is uncompressed is because of consoles and their pitiful CPUs, that and their blu-ray media allows them to leave everything uncompressed.
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>>377649048
That's the only defense hard-Gfags have.

>w-well, he doesn't know what he's talking about!

There is no linguistic reason why it can't be a soft G.
That's the name it was given by the development staff. So that's the name.

It's like if people still called Hermione "Her-me-ohn" and asserted that JK Rowling didn't know how to pronounce her own character's name.
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>>377649301
Pick both actually.
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>>377641993

Wi-fi is capable of speeds faster than most internet connections anyway, so as long as you don't live in a shithole full of interference there's literally nothing wrong with using it.
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Why are they allowed to get away with such jewery?
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>>377649301
You wish. I wish. The reality is they don't give a shit about us because the population density is too low (large land blocks, about an acre each) and everyone around here is a billion years old so doesn't care about the internet anyway.
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>>377641232
How can ISP's even charge you for data? Does it cost more to stream more data to someone because of server costs or something?
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>>377649118
Not him, but I'm not in the habit of calling it jraphics, so I'm not in the habit of calling it jif either.

Like would you also say Games of Throne's GoT and JoT?
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>>377649337
It's a made up word so he can call it what he wants, but now both hard g and soft g are accepted pronunciations. Like aluminum/aluminium.
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>>377649358
>Wi-fi is capable of speeds faster than most internet connections anyway
[citation needed]
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>>377646940
about 13$ for 70/50, that's actually pretty expesive compared to other isps around here
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>>377648752
That explains a lot, actually.

Kodi is hell on data, because, while Netflix and Hulu all use special compression algorythms and variable bitrates and fancy stuff to keep its data footprint as light as possible, while Kodi just dumps whatever it can find, regardless of the file size.
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steppity step up
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>>377646017
Data is not a resource you fucking tard. Let me set up a similar situation so you see how dumb you are.

TV is transfered through the same pipe as internet in most cases, and is the same type of thing as internet, data. Now, does your cable provider charge you depending on how long you leave your TV on? No? Well then why should they charge you more for doing the same with internet? They can charge you more to get more channels, which in this case is equivalent to more bandwidth, and that's fine. But they aren't charging you for leaving on your children's cartoons for 2 hours longer than normal
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>>377649542
I bet I get faster speeds on Wi Fi than you do on wired
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>>377648710
tell me more, senpai
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>>377645373
The only reason to add more cables is to respond in an influx of customers, not because they use all their bandwidth you retard.
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>>377649786
>wired-fi
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>>377649363
the internet needs more regulation to prevent this :^)

surely that will solve datacaps hehehe
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>>377649542

He means the max is higher than what is commercially available. What the retard neglected to mention is your still actually limited to the speed you're paying for, on top of all the other factors that degrade performance when on wi-fi.

>>377649786

I highly doubt it, not to mention your latency will be worse too.
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>>377641738

i have cox in AZ with no data cap
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>>377649540
>Like aluminum/aluminium.
Variant spellings, not exactly the same thing.

Pronunciations can change naturally based on region, accent, or even laziness in some cases.

Hard-G .gif is nothing more than an express refusal to accept the GIVEN NAME of a file type.

Names are different, you know? It's not really a word like the ones we're using to talk about it.
It's an acronym.

Everyone says NATO with a long A. Wouldn't it be strange to say it with a short A?
It's the same thing. .gif is a soft G. It has been since before it was even launched to the public.
Like Adobe, like Ubisoft, like "Kingdom Hearts Three-Five-Eight Days Over Two"

They're names, and the correct pronunciation is provided by the people that make the names.
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>>377641232
ow
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this only accounts for 4 days
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>>377642098
>new hd releases of bbw javs

kek
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>>377643875
Maybe 7
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>>377649965
And in the end it's the public that decides what the actual name is.

And they more or less named it GIF and not JIF.
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>>377644385
Literally this. Wtf man.
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>>377649363
Old people decide what your internet service is, not you. Old people don't give a fuck, dude.
>try to upgrade internet
>family won't let me
>it all gets you to the same place, why pay more
>tell them to hop on a bike and ride their ass to walmart, gets them to the same place a car does
>they get mad at me
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>>377650185
Kinda happy my parents aren't luddites.
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>>377649542

>802.11ac
>The specification has multi-station throughput of at least 1 gigabit per second and single-link throughput of at least 500 megabits per second (500 Mbit/s)

It has more than enough bandwidth to support your full internet connection, which you very rarely use all at once anyway. Unless your internet exceeds 500Mbps, Wireless AC will not bottleneck your performance.
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>>377650185
Damn I'm glad my parents were software engineers.
Means I never had to deal with this shit.
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>>377649637
Why do yuros use commas for points

40.5 vs 40,5
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>>377650160
>And they more or less named it GIF and not JIF.
Well they can't name it .jif because it's an acronym. Graphics Interchange Format.
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>>377650352
A period is a full stop, a comma signifies a pause.
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>>377641232
I got some fair use limit, like after 3TB they supposedly lower the speee who the fuxk knows, best i did is 450gb DL and even my sister downloads games and shit
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Some people are seriously defending this practice? Imagine if you had to pay more for your cable television if you watched too many shows.
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>>377650352
Default setting. You can change in preferences. I don't care personally
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>>377648958
Sorry, tovarisch, this site is detrimental to your ability to serve tzar, we will be blocking it now :^)
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>>377649924
>What the retard neglected to mention is your still actually limited to the speed you're paying for

That's implied to anyone who understands how internet works. What I was saying is that Wifi is capable of supporting the maximum throughput of most internet connections, therefore it is not a bottleneck to concern yourself with. The only problem with wifi is stability of connection or transferring large files from computer to computer over a local network. If you don't have interference issues, it will be perfectly stable. If you don't regularly transfer files between computers locally you don't need the gigabit that ethernet affords you.
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>>377650352
why do americans drop the u or change re to er
why do americans spell it "aluminum" when its "aluminium"
why do americans have such an arbitrary nonsensical system of measurement
mind you im american and just chose not to use imperial but even americans see how retarded it can be
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>>377641232
>having data caps

In what shitty country do you live?
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>>377650354
I mean named the filename. Not named the file format.
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>>377649147
>I use less than 200GB a month myself and I find the idea of a cap absolutely abhorrent.

Not that guy, but I feel like you're making a false dichotomy.

I don't think anyone is saying data caps aren't abhorrent. I'm certainly not saying that, because they are.

But 1TB a month, consistantly, is still a SHITLOAD of data to go through, and anyone hitting or exceeding that on a regular basis probably has bigger problems to deal with.
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>>377649965
>Everyone says NATO with a long A. Wouldn't it be strange to say it with a short A?
>It's the same thing. .gif is a soft G
That just seems contradictory. Everyone says NATO with a long A because that's how it's always been said. What if the original founders of NATO wanted it to be pronounced with the short A, but because everyone assumed it was the long A it just stuck that way?

I can't find any statistics on hard G vs soft G, but it seems more common for it to be pronounced hard G.
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>>377650352
Same reason Americans do the opposite. That's just how they do it.
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>>377650761
>chrome is 809GB
how
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Why do caps exist, bandwidth is unlimited, is it just pure jewerey?
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>>377650352
Some parts of Europe used a * to mean multiplication and some parts used an x. And that parts that used a dot adopted a comma so as to not get the period dot mixed up with the multiplication dot.
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>have DSL and it's slow, but consistent
>upgrade ISP from centurylink to comcast
>every game I try to play has ping over 100
>get a data cap too that they didn't tell me about
>can't play video games anymore

OH SAY CAN YOU SEE, BY THE DAWN'S EARLY LIGHT
WHAT SO PROUDLY WE HAIL, AS THE TWILIGHT'S LAST GLEAMING
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What the fuck is wrong with america?

I literally live in a third world country and have 25 mbps with no cap
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>>377650808
streaming
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>>377650496
>when its "aluminium"
Aluminum is equally acceptable. By they way, it was changed to aluminium to "sound more classical" but didn't account for other elements such as platinum. Imagine if platinum was changed to "platinium".
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>>377650808
I don't know to be honest, deleted my download history last week, but probably porn, and some huge texture packs that I keep fucking up the installation for and need to re-download
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>>377650761
>mega downloader
putting bets on youre a vita owner
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>>377650542
The file name... IS the file format. I can't think of one file type that isn't a shortened form of the format name.

>>377650726
>What if the original founders of NATO wanted it to be pronounced with the short A, but because everyone assumed it was the long A it just stuck that way?
Then everyone would be wrong.

Whenever I learn that I'm pronouncing something wrong, I start using the correct pronunciation because I don't want to sound like a fucking idiot.
But people who say hard-G .gif get SO butthurt, they can't possibly accept that their pronunciation is wrong, and that's the only reason it's persisted this long.

It used to be something people would actually argue over, like vehemently. And hard-G always just boiled down to "well, I'm gonna say it like this because that's how I read it the first time!!!"
And it's just fucking stupid. It's a childish approach to pronunciation.
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>>377641232
>paying money monthly for data caps

Your bill better be under $10 a month to justify that.
>>
BY THE ROCKETS RED GLARE
THE BOMBS BURSTING IN AIR
GAVE PROOF, THROUGH THE NIGHT
THAT OUR DATA CAP WAS STILL THERE
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>>377646940
30$ for 25 mbps no caps living in SEA
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>Buy a game on Steam
You fucked up.
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>>377646940
89.99 for tv + internet
75/10
1tb data cap
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>>377651037
That's how language evolves. Things change and eventually become accepted, like how "literally" can now mean "figuratively"

https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/misuse-of-literally
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>>377641232
Holy shit, I live on a 3rd world shithole, got shitty speed (comparatively) but god damn it I prefer that 1000 times over data cap, how do you live with yourself?
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>>377651037
>The file name... IS the file format.
Yes, but nobody says "did you see that Graphics Interchange Format I sent you?" People only use the name of the shortened filename and not the name of the actual file format because people only ever read the filename.

>Whenever I learn that I'm pronouncing something wrong, I start using the correct pronunciation because I don't want to sound like a fucking idiot.
So do you also say Kaisar instead of Ceasar, P/Bak and Yi instead of Park and Lee? Händle instead of Handle?
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>>377641612
porn videos are like 2gb each, dude. Come on.
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I can get through 3TB + a month easily.

Fucking fifty dollars extra per month KEK
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>>377649337

>There is no linguistic reason why it can't be a soft G.

Because no word in the English language puts a soft G before the letter I.
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>>377641993
sup gramps
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>>377641232
>Or you can purchase our Unlimited Data option for $50 additional a month

>mfw I get 100mbps for $40 in Texas
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>>377651428
>Yes, but nobody says "did you see that Graphics Interchange Format I sent you?"
So you're suggesting that this one file type, out of all other file types, break the mold and use an acronym that doesn't accurately represent the name of the format?

>P/Bak and Yi instead of Park and Lee? Händle instead of Handle?
Can't say I'm familiar with what you're referring to.
But I do pronounce German names correctly yes.

>>377651753
GIF isn't a word.
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>>377650496

>why do americans drop the u or change re to er
To simplify spellings and keep them more in line with how we actually pronounce the words. We don't say "Thee-Ah-Truh" or "Thee-Ah-Trey," we say "Thee-Ah-Ter." We don't say "Col-Oor" or "Col-Our," we actually say "Col-Or." We just made the spellings simpler and more consistent.

>why do americans spell it "aluminum" when its "aluminium"
It was changed after the fact and America just didn't follow it and stuck with the old spelling. We didn't remove the i, Europe ADDED the i.

>why do americans have such an arbitrary nonsensical system of measurement
Again, it was the Imperial system used by Britain. Then everyone in Europe developed the metric system and switched to that, but America was big/powerful/self-sufficient to not have to follow suit, so we just kept doing it the way we always did and no one could really force us to stop.

This also happened with "soccer" and "football." A long time ago, soccer/football was known as "Association Football," and this was shortened to "Soccer" for God knows what reason. So in America AND in Europe, the sport of kicking a ball with your foot was called soccer. Then as time went on, Gridiron Football became very popular in America, and we eventually called it Football. Then over in Europe everyone decided to CHANGE the name of Soccer to Football. But since Gridiron Football was way more popular here than Association Football, we just kept the names as they were. America using "soccer" is actually the original name for the sport.

So then you go forward a couple hundred years and the internet connects everyone and everyone applies this revisionist history bullshit and blames America for changing things when what actually happened in most cases is that America DIDN'T change while the rest of the world flip-flopped on naming schemes and shit.
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>>377651852
GIF is an acronym. Acronyms are words.

GIF, when sounded out in a sentence, is a noun, and a word.
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Why is the US such a shithole? Seriously, aren't we supposed to be the leaders of the free world, an example of how capitalism works and how it's the best method to ensure the consumer is always on top?
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>>377652004
Giraffe.
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>>377652063
Gift.
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>>377644449
I have literally no options without a data cap you dumb fuck
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>>377649786
>I bet I get faster speeds on Wi Fi than you do on wired

I have a half gigabit internet connection. Any router that can handle that on wifi would be stupidly expensive, and I'd need separate dongles to handle AC Wifi.

running a cable is way simpler, especially since you need only a small hole to drill and crimp the connector on two ends.

Now, the real problem I have is setting up a 10gbe SFP+ connection for my NAS.
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>>377652114
So?
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>>377652063
Giraffe is from the french, and follows french rules for spelling, like Rendezvous.
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>>377651852
>break the mold and use an acronym that doesn't accurately represent the name of the format?
No. But what does this even have to do with anything? I'm just saying that people generally call it Gif and not Jif and that can be said as the fact that it's now named Gif, and not Jif, no matter what the originator intended.
>Can't say I'm familiar with what you're referring to.
I'm referring to the more correct pronunciations of names that almost nobody in the western wold uses. Partly because it would make you look pretentious.
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>>377641738
some ISP even ask more money if you stream
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>>377642478
>there are grandmas on this site
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>>377641738
Amerika is huge and no way providers can cover all that ground except only the largest companies. No completion? Good luck finding nice deal.
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>>377652652
COMCAST GET OFF MY BOARD
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>>377641442
This.
Spain here, no data caps, always download at 30-40MB/s
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>>377652051
New York here. No data caps.
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>>377652652
DO IT GRANDMA

I DARE YOU
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>>377649029
>uncompressed audio and video
They're compressed already. A TB wouldn't be able to handle seconds of uncompressed video.
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>>377648398
>furaffinity
Why am I not surprised?
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>>377651956

It's called evolving famalam. The cousin of what 'muricans are used to do, "involution"
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>>377652051
>an example of how capitalism works
oh but this proves capitalism works damn fine
just not in your favor though :^)
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>>377653146
>newyork
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>>377653750
>knowing that site from the favicon
you're like those people who call out people for super obscure mlp references when literally no one else noticed it
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>>377654163
I only know from my years of browsing 4chin
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>>377654282
sure, you furry scum
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>>377654370
You're like those fags that pretend everyone hating on you is secretly some sort of closet fag.
>>
>>377654282
sure ;)
>>
>rapidly increasing filesizes with no improvement in graphics or game length is ok because I have fast internet

please stop
>>
>not even the first thread of this type
>americans are still defending data caps
nation of cucks
>>
>>377654779
>Not wanting to have your games' data filled with 11 languages in 96Khz 24-bit 7-channel uncompressed sound and pre-rendered cinematics for every resolution on the dart board
But Anon, you're missing out on the cinematic experiences!
>>
>Time Warner tried this shit years ago
>people protested
>Time Warner shilled hard, but gave in

>Comcast does this in 2015
>people contacted FCC
>"we'll make it 1tb instead of 300gb :^)"
>FCC is now ISP's bitch
>>
>>377653934

That's fair, but people should stop phrasing it as America changing things when it's America just keeping shit the way it always was.
>>
>>377641232

>p-physical and retail gaming will die!!

lol
>>
>>377655337
I don't see the issue? Granted I'm not american
>>
>>377655809
>>377654779
stop playing shit games and this wouldn't be a problem
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>>377649029
>uncompressed video

Literally no one in the world uses uncompressed video for anything.

A single second of 24fps uncompressed video would be GB big.
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>>377643795
Well, some of them did.
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>>377649190
>>377649029
The real problem with prerendered videos is how poorly they age?

>play old game
>can play it 4k and it looks amazing
>cutscene starts
>is so pixelated and low res that you can't even tell what is happening.
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Could you download your whole Steam folder on a Comcast connection?

All my games combined edge just over 1TB, so that's a no for me.
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>tfw 30MB/s (250Mb/s, actually) with no data caps

50GB games no longer perturb me, since I can generally download them in about an hour.
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OP is a faggot confirmed.
>>
Hey kid, I'mma computer.

Stop all the downloadin'.
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>>377642478
1TB sounds like a lot to normies, and realistically speaking nobody should ever reach that cap - In 2017.
In 10 years,1TB is going to be restrictive. That's why they're doing it now, because they aren't going to raise that cap. Want more than 1TB? Better upgrade to the premium plan!
>>
>>377646940
$25 for 6mbps with no caps.
>>
>>377641232
>they still have datacaps
What is this, 2007?
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>>377658826
Some of us aren't so fortunate, anon. I probably pay the same as you do, too.
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>>377641442
Brazil here, bro. My ISP has data cap, but they don't enforce it.
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>>377642478
>Comments are disabled for this video.
>337 likes
>67 628 dislikes
Kek.
>>
>>377643662
It has less to do with graphics and more to do with multiple languages and large amounts of sound, sometimes "high quality" versions to boot.
>>
>>377641232
>complaining with 1TB
foolish fool
>>
>>377659558
I wonder how much one can actually download in a month with that speed assuming it will download 24/7 at top speed whole month?
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>tfw live in bumfuck nowhere
>literally only 1 internet provider other than with tv providers
>have a 300 gig cap
>cant get other internet without bundling
>>
>>377641232
Gears of War 4 was the worst waste of bandwith, how is a game so big be so disappointing didn't help that the Windows store is fucking terrible and i had to restart the computer like 5 times because the download would just stop for REASONS
>>
>>377661073
You can download a 100 GB game 10 times. nu-Doom is 75 GB.
>>
>>377661710
That doesn't answer the question.
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thank god i dont have caps
>>
>>377661816
>How much can you download in a month
>"You can download a 100 GB game 10 times"
That's 1 TB anon. You can download 1 TB in a month.
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>>377662231
>doesn't go over the cap
>thank god I don't have caps
?
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>>377642098
Why? Bbw jav is just larger pixels.
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>>377647736
>competing ISPs

That's the problem. Most of the country is some cable company's monopolized area
>>
>>377662303
Retard.
>how much one can _actually_ download in a month with that speed
No one asked "what" or "how" or "how much 1 TB is".
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