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[Mac Newbold]

Today at 11:52am, Clint Savage said:

> I'd like to rebut the fact that UTOPIA puts limits on the bandwidth.  It's
> NOT UTOPIA that implements the limits its the service providers like
> XMission or others.  I've called and verified several times with AT&T that
> they have absolutely NO limit on their internet service.  With haste, I will
> say this is probably similar to the Comcast Unlimited, however.

Then let me clarify my previous statement: UTOPIA does not put a limit, 
they impose a quota, and any usage beyond that quota incurs additional 
fees. They may tell you it is the provider charging for usage over that 
bandwidth, but they're charging the provider for the increased usage as 
well, so XMission for example is just passing on the extra fee they have 
to pay to UTOPIA when a user goes over the quota on their account.

The charge is not levied on the customer by UTOPIA, it is levied on the 
ISP by UTOPIA, who has at its discretion to charge the user or to eat the 
extra cost by building the average overage fees into the base service 
cost. I for one don't blame an ISP who passes on the charges that they 
have to pay to the person who caused them to get charged, rather than 
passing them to all of us.

Even with that quota, I am quite sure that UTOPIA will never disconnect 
you for using more than they expected you to use. They'll just charge your 
ISP more for the extra bandwidth you use, and your ISP may in turn charge 
you more.

Mac

>> The only place I know of at the moment that publishes quotas on usage is
>> UTOPIA, which is 100GB per month. 1-3GB per month is way lower than that.
>> Even back when XMission had quotas on DSL, it was 100GB/month, not
>> including their unmetered times or within-network traffic.

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