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This practice is popular overseas

mingkee

Aug 10, 2010, 2:53 PM
Many carriers choose to reduce the speed once going over instead to charge more to avoid billing argument.
Moreover, there's a rule called "fair use policy" to ensure all users get equal performance, so carriers has to run some methods to discourage some abusing practice (use mobile internet as landline internet or share connection with more than one computer, or stream for unreasonable duration (more than 4 hours @ 128kbps everyday).
T-Mobile still lets you to use internet with slower speed instead of send you trillion dollars bills or instantly kill you!
The guy will surely lose whatsoever because he doesn't read T&C. T-Mobile is liberal enough to let customers to tether with $20 or higher internet. Try to do this on other 3, they may r...
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Da_Bonehead

Aug 10, 2010, 3:28 PM
Some Cable companies do this as well. I used to be a Technician for a cable company and we could monitor the bandwidth usage of any modem on our system. I have had some people that all they do all day is download movies and music. Not the normal usage mind you, these guys had programs that ran 24/7 down loading and up loading. I don't have any clue what they were doing but they would have been better served with a dedicated DS1 or T1 line to their house.
Because it created issues with other users download speeds being very slow we would thottle their speed down from 1.5mbps to 500kbps.
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trenen

Aug 11, 2010, 2:13 PM
lol...must have been a ****ty company you worked for because 1.5mpbs is dial-up compared to the 7mbps+ other providers carry as a 'standard'.
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Da_Bonehead

Aug 11, 2010, 6:26 PM
Well it was a large company but it supplied cable and internet to very small towns. I worked in 4 towns. But it was a long time ago. When we were providing 1.5mbps my DSL through ATT was topped at 250kbps. so it was fast then.
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moobear

Aug 12, 2010, 10:58 PM
LOL. 7MB. must be a ****ty company you have since the company in my area offers 50+mbps
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