I'm quite sure i'm not the only one with a datalimit on his internet connection here.
But i do want to know how mutch you pay / month for what speed and what datalimit you have.
And to were you live if possible.

I'm trying to compare ISP's here with ISP's of other countries.
The DataLimits here are just stupid, 12gb download and 2gb upload is considered as a normal data limit :|

When you want to listen to internet radio or want to download a linux distro this is quite painfull, no internet for rest of the month in most cases.

And now i have nothing to compare with so no facts, so nothing i can blame the ISP's with

I have personally never heard of a mass consumer ISP enforcing a data transfer cap. That's just bad economics and the business won't last long. Unless of course the service costs extremely little and the ISP is a small company, which is unlikely, considering how established the major players are.

However, numerous colleges and universities enforce bandwidth caps, in part to prevent massive downloading of music, games, and/or movies through the high speed connections that these institutions provide. It's especially painful for anime otakus, since they won't be able to download the next episode of a fansub (or likely several fansubbed series) until the next month.

I think it is really difficult to strike a proper balance between limiting wanton downloads and proper legitimate use. Internet radio and internet TV, especially the HQ stations that broadcast in high bitrates, will quickly eat up a small bandwidth limit; but if the bandwidth is left unguarded, many would download illegal music/software/movies without end. Yet to stifle the latter will also harm the former, and the IT administrators have a tough balancing job.

Poland, 2048 down / 320 up speed. Datalimit 35gb, only for down, up is unlimited. About 55 euro per month. No other choice, but I can live with that.

Quote by EternalParadoxI have personally never heard of a mass consumer ISP enforcing a data transfer cap. That's just bad economics and the business won't last long. Unless of course the service costs extremely little and the ISP is a small company, which is unlikely, considering how established the major players are.

However, numerous colleges and universities enforce bandwidth caps, in part to prevent massive downloading of music, games, and/or movies through the high speed connections that these institutions provide. It's especially painful for anime otakus, since they won't be able to download the next episode of a fansub (or likely several fansubbed series) until the next month.

I think it is really difficult to strike a proper balance between limiting wanton downloads and proper legitimate use. Internet radio and internet TV, especially the HQ stations that broadcast in high bitrates, will quickly eat up a small bandwidth limit; but if the bandwidth is left unguarded, many would download illegal music/software/movies without end. Yet to stifle the latter will also harm the former, and the IT administrators have a tough balancing job.

Most of the data limits are done by countries outside of the USA. ISPs could never get away with doing taht in the United States, due to tough competition. In other countries, there's generally only one or two ISPs, and they control the broadband networks.

I live in Australia, and most broadband plans come with data caps. That said mine is 40gb (which I used in a week and was supposed to last a month), but some are as low as 300mb, and many charge extra per MB for overuse or will reduce your speed to 64k after you go past your cap.

Quote by EternalParadoxI have personally never heard of a mass consumer ISP enforcing a data transfer cap. That's just bad economics and the business won't last long. Unless of course the service costs extremely little and the ISP is a small company, which is unlikely, considering how established the major players are.

However, numerous colleges and universities enforce bandwidth caps, in part to prevent massive downloading of music, games, and/or movies through the high speed connections that these institutions provide. It's especially painful for anime otakus, since they won't be able to download the next episode of a fansub (or likely several fansubbed series) until the next month.

I think it is really difficult to strike a proper balance between limiting wanton downloads and proper legitimate use. Internet radio and internet TV, especially the HQ stations that broadcast in high bitrates, will quickly eat up a small bandwidth limit; but if the bandwidth is left unguarded, many would download illegal music/software/movies without end. Yet to stifle the latter will also harm the former, and the IT administrators have a tough balancing job.

Here their is a monopoly of two ISP's.
One ADSL ISP that and one Cable ISP.
They don't kill each other since they both have a big user base.
Cause it are the only two ISP's that have stable connections.
The ADSL ISP owns the telephone network.
And the cable isp (the one i have) owns the cable network.
So all other ISP's need to hire connection from them anyway.

Here its normal that you pay 50euro for 8mbit down 396kbps down with a data limit of 12gb down and 2GB up...
Their isn't a single ISP with a FUP

Quote by EternalParadoxI think it is really difficult to strike a proper balance between limiting wanton downloads and proper legitimate use. Internet radio and internet TV, especially the HQ stations that broadcast in high bitrates, will quickly eat up a small bandwidth limit; but if the bandwidth is left unguarded, many would download illegal music/software/movies without end. Yet to stifle the latter will also harm the former, and the IT administrators have a tough balancing job.

Illegal music? What on Earth is that? What sort of music is illegal? Are you trying to say that you think ISPs should ally with the government in trying to create monopolies on the replication of certain patterns of data? If so, then why not say so, instead of implying that the data itself is somehow affected by whether or not it is copied by the person who's intended to have the monopoly? Would that not fit an agenda of conflating government-enforced monopolies with property or something?

Though i have no datalimit , the speed is too slow .

I pay 50 € for a 4.4mbps down/320kbps up, capped at 10gb. (ADSL)
In the past, there was no data limit, but since the cable ISP went to court because of that, they introduced limits.
If you go over it, it's 64kbps... however, my 56k modem is faster

Anyway, I've to buy 5gb volume packs... I try to keep it reasonable at 25gb a month (2 packs + cheat on connection times)
Before the limits, it was an average around 80GB/month.

SBC Yahoo $12.99/moth 1.5 mbps down/386 kpbs up and no data cap.

I pay $35 a month, 3mbps/150kbps. i don't think there is a data cap.

I pay 44.90euro (52,60usd) 8mbps / 1mbps month and no datalimit. Finland

I pay around £28 ($48 USD) for my 2MB down 256kb up ADSL (in London). no cap what so ever.
You can get 2MB ADSL far cheaper then this but the ratio is not good for torrenting whole day and night.
There are a lot of cap service as well if you're not a heavy user and they are quiet cheap.