AT&T capping internet usage, what does it mean for XBOX?

So, AT&T is capping usage, up to 250gb a month. And for Netflix, one hour of standard tv show uses 1gb, high def uses 2.3gb. And for someone who watches a lot of netflix, and uses the internet, it adds up quickly. I watch netflix on XBOX live...So i assume this cap will affect playing games on LIVE? Does anyone have anymore info on this? Are there any cable companies that don't do this capping yet? Why can't they do it like they did with mobile customers, and only cap the new customers?

lol this sucks, especially for a big family that uses internet etc.

2011-05-05T15:13:47Z

Thanks! I'm just not sure how it would work with XBOX Live, since you have to connect over the internet and how much it would use anyway. We are on XBOX Live a lot.

2011-05-05T15:17:21Z

We cut back on Netflix a lot, but pretty much all weekend we watch it, and at night during the week. Now that I add up how much we use, it's not that bad, but I'm not sure how much we use when we are actually on the internet. Since I have unlimited web on my IPhone, i usually use it instead of the computer.

Jim Maryland2011-05-05T15:13:09Z

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Mostly agree with Ben, but keep in mind that more people are streaming content. The cap is currently designed to limit a small number of exceptionally high bandwidth consumers.

250 / 2.3 = 108 hours of HD content per month or about 3.5 hours of HD content every day of a 31 day month. I'm not sure that Netflix has enough streaming content to do that every month. I've found their "play now" selection to be pretty limited (TV shows are a bit better, but movie content is very light).

Are you really consuming that much video? If so, I believe the cap is a bit of a "soft cap". If you find that you are usually exceeding it, talk to AT&T to see what options you have.

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Ben2011-05-05T22:01:49Z

It's not that big of a deal. Games use a very small amount of data- they don't send the picture over the Internet. They just send descriptions of what's happening, like "such and such player moved over here" or "such and such player got hit". It's only going to be a few kilobytes at a time, which means you can play for several hundred hours a month before hitting the cap.

AT&T's cap really isn't that big of a deal. Very few people actually exceed that cap every month. The main reason they're doing it is because the top couple percent of their users (the ones who max their connection constantly because they're torrenting everything) are slowing down the Internet for everyone else.

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Anonymous2011-05-05T21:55:52Z

oh come on that's stupid. can they actually do that? you signed up for unlimited internet, you should get unlimited internet. who ever heard of capping internet usage anyway?

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