I'm not too happy about this.  I don't torrent, and won't be near these caps for the most part.  Every once in a while I have to re-download all my Games For Windows Live games after formatting a hard drive and those are in the 75-80Gb range of total size.

What this is doing, is cutting off the insanely ridiculous bandwidth hogs.  I fully understand the business reasons behind it.  I just don't prefer to know I am under a cap because of a small group of torrent sharing, file stealing douchebags. That will of course, fight to the death on it being their "right" to do so.

I knew this was coming with Suddenlink.  They have been sending out usage statistic reports for several months now.  Not mentioning a cap, just comparing usage to other customers in general, and usage based on the package speeds.

Every once in a while, a couple good shows will come across that we haven't seen and they become available on Netflix.  We can plow through several seasons worth of shows in a couple weekends.  That is a decent amount of data, and so is Youtube, and other normal uses of the Internet.

Once again it's a few bad apples to spoil the bunch.  I would expect to see performance improvements in the next few months after the massive bandwidth hogs start getting penalize hard core for their mega usage.  Then after they either stop their gross consumption, or switch to another carrier, the rest of us could see faster speeds at all times of the day.  Here's to hoping.

I'm on the 20mb plan, so I've not gotten any warnings yet.  Basically, that's just Netflix and surfing. 

We've gotten close to the limit and actually got an email once that warned us of going over (was there an unwritten limit prior to this?)

Are you on a plan slower than 10/1? 

Yea I was (am) upset in principle at this change, but the caps are high enough and the policy reasonable enough (no charge till the 3rd overage) that I've decided it's not worth my time to complain or get upset.  The real bandwidth hogs could be dealt with via QOS and traffic shaping instead of usage caps, and I'm sure they are doing those things already and now adding the caps.  But the usage cap approach seems to now be the standard, and it generates some additional revenue to boot.

I would be very interested to see the data on the top 1% of Suddenlink customers, but I doubt they'll ever share it.

Maybe we should all just move to Canada

I do work from home 8-10 hours per day on a VPN including a VoIP phone. I have yet to hit the 100 GB mark, and I "shovel" large spreadsheets and DB processing back and forth, but no problem yet. I have just switched to the 20 MBit plan and if need arises, I am trying to get anything better through a business plan, since my company reimburses me for my Internet connection. However, I always thought that 250 GB would not be enough for me/us, but looking at my usage graph, my/our heaviest usage was 90 GB so far and that included watching all seasons of Bones on Netflix during that particular month.

It's an inconvenience and I wish we would be able to enjoy the speeds and unlimited usage that other countries do, but speaking from a teleworker perspective, it does work.