An Important Cable Question

[Jkayo]

I want to get a cable modem from my local cable company. Its 40 a month for 500k, but if I use more than 3 gigs of bandwidth in a month it costs $0.05 for every additional meg. I want to use it for games and internet, but I would like to know exactly how hard or easy it would be for me to go over this limit. If it helps I would like to play games for about 1 hour a day 3 days a week and a few hours on the weekend.

Thank you

[OuTpaTienT]

What exactly does that mean 3Gbs of bandwidth? Does that mean data going both ways is counted? If so, then that really sucks hard.

I've been obsessing on .MP3 files lately and I can tell you that it has only taken me about 2-3 days to accumulate over 1.5Gbs of songs! And that not going round the clock or anything, that's just me getting tons of songs from the newsgroups a few hours each evening. Cable can be VERY fast and VERY easily go over that 3Gb limit in less than a day if you wanted to.

Assuming I'm understand correctly the limit they're imposing, then I'd have to say that they are the suckiest of all that have ever sucked. Look into DSL. If it were me, I'd be sure to let the cable co. know exactly why I have choosen to NOT use their service.

Who is it anyways?

[NavyDood_ F/A18_Mech]

OUCH who the heck is the cable company? Shaft-u-hard.com? When i get it here in TX, it's unlimited for $29.95 a month. (I'm planning on buying my own internal cable modem.) Something's not right about yours.

Jim

[rl]

sheesh, my cable co. (time warner) gives it to me for 40 a month, with no limit. they do get mad and will send you a letter, if you use a exsessive amount of bandwith (e.i. if you run a ftp server and constantly have people downloading 24-7)

[DaddyGoose]

3Gps is a lot of bandwith if your a typical surfer and don't Queue you downloads or run multiple D/L's....
The fastest cable modems i've seen only download at 600Mbs. Your talking five times that....

[OuTpaTienT]

Daddy, it that really what they mean though? On their internet services page, they specify the bandwidth you subscribe to as 128k (or 512k for more money). Then they go on to mention about the 3Gb limit per billing period. I might be wrong but that says to me those 3Gb's are accumulated over the month. And if that's correct, then 3Gb's is NOT a lot at all! I can do 3Gb's a day if I try.