Subj : Re: Vitamins
To   : Kurt Weiske
From : Mark Hofmann
Date : Sun Sep 26 2021 08:05:54

KW> Ditto. I'm not the only one who like their home setup much more than an
KW> open-plan office. The one thing I miss is the 600/600 internet at the
KW> office.

Most of our larger sites have 1Gbps/1Gbps Internet via business fiber.  The most used connection to the Internet by far is our wireless guest internet.  It normally has over 5000 users connected and using 800Mbps-1Gbps during the daytime.

KW> My son started college this semester and is living with us fulltime. This
KW> was the first month we went over Comcast's 1229GB data cap. He downloaded
KW> a game on Steam that was "only" 30 megabytes, but when I looked at the
KW> game directory it'd downloaded 50 gigabytes of textures.
KW> 
KW> Since we get a "free" month with no overages, I told him, "Game On". At
KW> least until the end of the month. I just backed up all of my music and
KW> videos to the cloud. :)

I can't explain just how much it irritates me how some carriers take advantage of certain locations that don't have many connectivity options.  Having any type of cap or limit in this day and age is insane to me.  

I know that Comcast does this in areas where they can get away with it.  They were never able to do that in the Northeast only because we have Verizon Fios in many areas.  

My last month of having Comcast 2 years ago, I downloaded over 3TB of stuff knowing that I was canceling at the end of the month, anyway.  There were never any caps here, but they still watched it and would send "excessive usage letters" from time to time to try and move you to the business service which is no different other than you pay more.

I have been on Verizon Fios for 2 years now and love it.  Verizon Business sucks, but Verizon residential has been wonderful.  I average 2-3TB of traffic per month over here and have the 1Gbps/1Gbps service for $79.99/month.  Less expensive than my old Comcast and I get way more speed.

- Mark

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