200GB a month, is about 10mb/s and 20ms ping for connections within Australia, to anywhere else is 1-5mb/s. When I use 200gb, it slows down to 512k/s -_-
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I don't have a hard cap. At home, I supposedly have a cap, I think 250 GB or something ridiculous like that. I only know because one month I went over by about 20%... with zero repercussions except a letter saying "Consider upgrading". My friend, with the same cap, constantly goes over by 120%.
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Mine's 350 gigs a month, and I deal with it by keeping my games on an external drive. That way I can transfer them over to whatever PC I'm using without having to worry about downloading anything. It's especially handy with older, DRM-free games that don't have a ton of updates.
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4MB (Yes, four) DSL conection (around 650kbps down/128kbps up), no data cap yet on my country. Actually happy with it, I'm user since 56kbps modems. Have 4G on the phone, and I'm one of the few with "unlimited" data plan. The cap on 4G is 10GB (found it the hard way), even when my contract says 500MB under fair use clause, but after the change to 4G the cap went up and the "unlimited data" contracts went the way of the dodo with most companies.
At home we're 2, and make intensive use of the line, I play mostly online (SWTOR) and my wife loves to download or stream series and movies to watch at night or at weekends, problem comes when we both use the conection, so I use the 4G if I'm playing, if not, the 4G serves me better while at work, where they have very strict restrictions about internet usage.
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Mobile connection, 2 gb per month. I can't use Steam (and YouTube, p2p, Skype, multiplayer games and basically everything that's not Whatsapp and browsing forums) until i can get a job and subscribe to ADSL, which won't get past 7 Mbps at best. As usual, Italy is way beyond the rest of the Europe like everything else.
ADSL is not capped at all, but most providers put p2p filters (good luck if you play WoW) or limit the bandwidth during 8am - 8pm so they can comply to European minimum standards without actually upgrading their outdated equipment. Also, most lines are wholesale and other providers have to pay fees to TelecomIT, increasing the user's final cost.
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Luckily in the UK we have enough ISP selection that if you dont want a data cap there is usually a company that will provide a good service in your area (as long as you are not too rural). I havent had a data cap for the past 9 years!
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No data cap for me (Ireland), but I still keep my Steam games on an external HDD when I don't have them on my PC, since my PC only has a 500GB HDD, and I often need to clear up space. By keeping the game files on an external HDD, I can just switch games, only taking a few minutes, instead of having to download it all, which can take hours.
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heh , reminds me when i had not-so-long-ago a data cap of 1GB per MONTH :D ! , going over that would greatly increase the cost ,
after that , i "upgraded" to a "better" 4GB per Month ,
oh .. and talking about shitty cap , i had those split in half with my older brother , so that's 500MB/m and 2GB/m respectively :D
it's a little bit better now tho , i have a constant 1Mb/s connection with no cap (but hey , that's 100KB/s download speed so it's still shit ._. )
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Yep, after 4 years of using COX Internet without a cap, they implemented it last August. 100GB per month. I've only gone over once. The last 2 months the data meter has been pretty off. I've downloaded 11GB games and it says i only used like 4GB of my total.
I have pretty much all my steam games installed. Although I've started to complete games to uninstall them, because i am running low on space and i can't afford to get a second HD right now. When i feel like playing them again, I'll just download them, it really won't affect my cap. The big games I'll always keep, like the Total War games, those i tend to go back to every few months.
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About 8 years ago, AOL UK brought in a cap of about 200GB/M and I wanted to cancel my contract so I downloaded as much as I could. Hit 8-900GB 3 months running and got free of the contract. Went to my last ISP in the UK who I stayed with for about 6 years before moving to Mexico. Still no cap.
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6GB a month
for 20USD
its a 3g modem but it struggles to get to 1MBPS and i can't play anything online with it coz its ping is horrible
why not get dsl you ask?
i moved to a new building and it doesn't have a phone line and my country is a piece of shit i live in the busiest area in the city but the phone company (which also the ministry of communication so it has a monopoly on the market) wants my building to pay for everything ourselves and my cheap ass neighbours don't want to pay yes its a lot but come on its for THE INTERNET
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What is your cap? Is it per month, week, day, etc?
How do you get around the cap limitation?
Have you considered keeping your Steam game downloads on an external drive when you need to uninstall? Archive the install folder onto an external drive, and uninstall from Steam. When you want to reinstall, restore the archived copy back into its original location. Start a reinstall in Steam, and Steam will detect preexisting files and only update the files that need updating. If there's nothing to update, you won't download anything. Saves a lot of installation time, too.
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