I've had AT&T DSL since it was literally available here in my town. I was one of their first DSL customers, picked due to my distance to the CO and tech savvy, and helped them troubleshoot some issues before it rolled out to everyone else. Not once did they ever cap my data even though there was a cap in place. I was told at one point that they call you if you keep going way over month after month to alert you and that's it. I switched to COX at some point for cheaper faster speeds and a much higher cap. They also never enforced the cap. When I broke my leg last year I called them to tell them I would be home streaming a lot and may go over and they told me that they don't enforce it and wouldn't, and would do something similar to AT&T's above mentioned contacting me if I am going over a lot. A few months ago I upped my plan again so I am supposed to have 100+ down and 10 up so my security cams had bandwidth, esp at night. I was running into my limit out at night w 5 cameras running and sending email would take 5 minutes. This plan also came with a high "cap" and again I was told it would not be enforced. Today, I got the above email telling me they are going to start enforcing the cap and charging for overages. Looking at my usage, I stream a lot, I stream 4K UHD, I download games for my consoles at 60gb-100gb each, and now I am going to have to start paying attention to when I download new games and what I stream and that makes me disappointed. I am working more now so I'm away from the house more, so my usage should go down during the day and then to my normal night usage, which may help. But looking at my current usage, and previous months I've been close a lot... esp the week around E3 when I streamed coverage AND downloaded games on sale. PLus every month Games with Gold has stuff to grab free and there's usually one 60GB game in there. I knew this day would come. We used to get notifications on our phone plan (family plan) because my brother drove a lot for work and streamed sometimes from school/class on bases with no internet provided. But at home its never been a worry. Now with 4K and its 20MBs-30MBs down, 60-100GB video games, etc I have one more thing to worry about. And there is no bigger package with more room. Personally I think my plan should be 2TB or 3TB since I have so much speed available. What do they think we are doing with that speed? Using 1MB a day? No, we use it to its fullest! That is what it's for. I shouldn't have caps, there are plenty of people who barely use theirs, I use mine a lot, it should balance out. Ugh.
