AT&T Gonna Hate On Us :(

May 2nd, AT&T is capping at 150gb per month. Bummer.
Obviously I gotta abandon ship. Im running at the 6mbit plan, which means 75 hours of straight downloading will put me over. And my line is active for about 20 hours a day, give or take. Plus I game online.

Shame too, some companies have done this in the past and still do it (Commie-cast) and some have tried and failed (Roadrunner). There was some news in canada recently about them attempting to do this and the backlack was so bad they decided against it.

Now I and the other subscribers have two options: Cut our losses or run the bills up out of protest. Im kinda in between, maybe suggesting paying your bill like you normally do and telling them to shove their overage fees that you never agreed to up their cynical fat asses. Chances are it wont last forever, and there's even a chance it wont happen - but dont hold your breath.

It also begs the question I've seen on Dslreports: What about those under contract for unlimited internet? Guess they can do what they want, ma bell reigns over us again.

Then there's also the contradiction they made: "AT&T claims their average DSL customer uses around 18GB a month, and these changes will only impact about 2% of all DSL customers -- who the company states consume "a disproportionate amount of bandwidth."
(Hey assholes: If it was only 2%, why would you give a fuck? Its obviously greater than that, but the bottom line is money.)

You and I both know that the internet is becoming way more bandwidth-intensive with the changing of the times. HD streaming, netflix, synchronized cloud storage, bittorrent is more popular than ever, gaming for all you nerds, and usenet traffic of all that porn is posted at 10tb per day for the pervert in all of us.

What really gets me though is America is the land of all of this great innovation and technology and options and choices and everything - But our bandwidth to ensure means of delivery sucks. And why? Europe and Asia have really super speeds, especially places like Sweden - The original home of the pirate bay.