AT&T Contacts Customers about Data Usage Allowance: 150gb for DSL & 250gb for U-verse

[scootro]

http://www.hackingnetflix.com/2011/04/att-contacts-customers-about-data-usage-allowance-150gb-for-dsl-250gb-for-u-verse.html

As of May 2, 2011, AT&T's residential DSL High Speed Internet plans will have a usage allowance of 150 Gigabytes ("GB") per month, and its residential U-verse High Speed Internet plans will have a usage allowance of 250 Gigabytes ("GB") per month. The usage allowance is the amount of data you can send and receive each month.

So if this is like most households where a typical family of 4 people having access to the household bandwith. Timmy in his room burning up bandwith on X-box live, Suzy in her room using her laptop and Momma checking her emails on a nightly basis. Dad burning his up watching you tube videos. That 20 SD movies gets widdled down to 5-10 hours of streaming from Netflix a month? That $7.99 subscription pricing bumps up to what $50-$60 with the overage charges.

Posted by: annonomousme | April 11, 2011 at 03:03 PM

[scootro]

First, AT&T will provide a personal usage report at www.MyUsage.att.com where customers can view how much actual data they have used in a given month from the January 2011 bill cycle to the most recent billing cycle.






I'm screwed with having dsl......

Usage for:
02-21-2011 to 03-20-2011 110.12 GB Total
104.69 GB download
5.43 GB upload
Usage bar shows up to
150 GB
110.12 GB Total usage*

Usage for:
01-21-2011 to 02-20-2011 95.11 GB Total
89.85 GB download
5.26 GB upload
Usage bar shows up to
150 GB
95.11 GB Total usage*

[Samhain]

The U-verse data measurement report is currently under construction. When completed, you will be notified if your usage exceeds the allowance. Until that time, U-verse customers should not be concerned about their usage patterns for billing purposes.

To learn more about how to manage your usage, please visit www.att.com/internet-usage

[scootro]

yea i figured their cash cow "U-verse" will get hit last

[8mpg]

lol..fuck them

[scootro]

lol..fuck them

just think every isp in America will jump on to this band wagon and no one will do anything to stop it!

[YALE]

just think every isp in America will jump on to this band wagon and no one will do anything to stop it!

Comcast has already been talking about it.

[2K2 LS1]

Will I be screwed? Uverse account. Both are kids stream netflix daily. The wife DVR's every damn chick show known to man, and we watch live tv and use the internet daily like any other household....


Of course this is assuming they lump internet and tv bandwidth usage together.....

[Denny]

Will I be screwed? Uverse account. Both are kids stream netflix daily. The wife DVR's every damn chick show known to man, and we watch live tv and use the internet daily like any other household....


Of course this is assuming they lump internet and tv bandwidth usage together.....

Get the family out of the house a little more. Leslie and the kids just started a raised bed garden this week.

[The King]

LOL, glad there's no internet hogs in our house.

Screw AT&T, haven't given them any of my business in decades.

[2K2 LS1]

Get the family out of the house a little more. Leslie and the kids just started a raised bed garden this week.

We have been; up until about a week and a half ago. My son has some sort of asthma and respiratory infection we are fighting, so he has kinda been house bound No baseball practice or games either!

[Denny]

We have been; up until about a week and a half ago. My son has some sort of asthma and respiratory infection we are fighting, so he has kinda been house bound No baseball practice or games either!

That sucks. Our youngest has bad asthma and allergies too. That is why we always vacation on islands. With prevailing breezes off the sea, the pollen count is usually next to nothing. On a scale of 0-12, DFW has been mid 11's lately.

[Geor!]

just think every isp in America will jump on to this band wagon and no one will do anything to stop it!

Oh no! You're downloading pirated copies of software, music and movies and somebody is trying to impose restrictions! The world is coming to an end!

[Mychael101]

This is bullshit. I stream netflix like a motherfucker.

[SVTNorthTexas]

This is gonna suck, I use Netflix all the time and my roomate constantly downloads movies and music.