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Slinkytech
12/01/09

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Fun Fact (fact in the sense of a Comcast fact, in the way that their numbers aren't true): We all know comcast doesn't do anything but sit. That is why this meter hasn't been out before. At least, that's what you thought. They actually torrented the meter. It just took them so long because Comcast was throttling the torrent.
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Gann
12/01/09

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Anyone know how large an average Netflix movie is?
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Algerad
12/01/09

@Gann: The highest Netflix HD bitrate is 4 Mb/s max (it's variable bitrate so most of the time it'll be under this). For a 2 hour movie, that means you use up about 28 gigabits. Divide that by 8, and you're using up about 3.5 gigabytes of bandwidth on a 2 hour long, HD movie. Now most stuff on Netflix isn't HD, so the bitrates are lower of course.
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Gann
12/01/09

@Algerad: Looks like bandwidth peaks at around 3.4 Mg/s, or around 1.8 for your average movie. It's my experience though that bandwidth never stays at its peak through an entire movie.
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Alfisted
12/01/09

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A little voice in my head screams, "You go home NOW! You been file sharing for three hour!"
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OCEntertainment
12/01/09

@Alfisted: "Why you no read book?! You so laaazyyy!!!!"
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OCEntertainment
12/01/09

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Where is the fiber and the bandwidth? Where is the video that was streaming? They have passed like dropped packets over copper, like signal over cell networks. The days have gone done for the broadband behind the data caps into brownouts.

....How did it come to this?
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Hello Mister Walrus
12/01/09

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I want to see the usage meter for my loud neighbors who don't have a password on their WiFi.
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thecolor
12/04/08

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they better get crackin' on a REAL-time meter! Every cellphone company in the world has a prettydarn-close-to-REAL-time meter, so they can do it to. If they are going to charge their customers for overages, the customers should have an accurate way to measure it, not a delayed one.

Common Comcast, this is technology age, get with the program! And don't use a "it takes time" excuse. (time is microseconds to the internet)
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
12/04/08

@thecolor: That's because the phone tracks usage individually, versus a polling method that requires back-end processing to display a pretty web picture.

Not really anywhere near the same thing. If all of your devices connected to the internet were capable of tracking their own use, report it, then it could maybe be closer to realtime. Otherwise, it requires a polling system.
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mailbox01
12/04/08

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So users using it for legal means are treated like criminals. Downlaods for my Zune & Xbox, playing Xbox Live, Streaming Netflix, Sync files on Mesh, etc., I will easily exceed the cap. And I don't use B/T either. Damn!
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Lite: hates Illinois Nazis
12/04/08

@mailbox01: Ah, well basically you're supposed to be a captive audience. If you were a GOOD customer you'd use their streaming movie system instead. Duh!
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