Good times! att throttle begins on DSL and U-Verse, maybe iphone next.............

http://www.engadget.com/2011/05/01/psa-atandt-dsl-and-u-verse-landline-internet-caps-begin-tomorrow/



Tomorrow is May 2nd, 2011, and you know what that means -- tomorrow is the day that AT&T will impose data caps on DSL and U-Verse Internet, and begin tallying up overage fees. At least, that was the plan on March 18th -- when the company formally announced 150GB DSL and 250GB U-Verse caps -- but even if you're a paying customer who chows down several hundred gigabytes in a month, you may not have to worry about paying extra right away. AT&T specified that folks like yourself will have access to an online tool to self-police your usage before the company even begins to calculate the cost of your formerly all-you-can-eat bandwidth buffet, and as you can see in the picture above, the tool isn't quite ready for public consumption across the entire country. Scoot on over to our source link, enter your AT&T ID, and if you see the same, perhaps you won't have to cancel your 700-hour Star Trek marathon quite yet.

Rodimus Prime said:

worse part is while 250 gig now is fine for 99% of the people. It will become an issue as time goes on as our data demands are exponentially growing so in a few years 250 gigs is going to be a major issue.

what 10 years ago it most people were pulling down maybe 1 gig of data a month and that was on the high end. Now days we are well beyond that.

As for the people hitting the 250 gigs caps are going to be the major torrent people. Streaming netflix is going to suck down at most 1 gig per hour. Reallity is it is going ot be closer to 500 megs per hour. We do not stream that much video per day.

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And don't forgot about PS3 HD gaming online............................