Tag: Data cap
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Can You Live With a 1TB Data Caps? We Take a Look… (Updated September 2017)
Recently a growing number of internet providers have started to add a 1TB data cap to most of its plans. (2TB for gigabyte subscribers) That raised a lot of questions with our readers about their ability to stream what they want with a 1TB data cap. So we are going to do our best to…
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Cox Will Soon Charge Extra if You Don’t Want a Data Cap
Recently Cox has been rolling out data caps across the United States. These data caps put a 1TB or 2TB limit on your data. If you go over the limit you will be charged $10 for blocks of 50 GB over 1 TB. Now DSLReports is reporting that Cox will start to charge $50 a month…
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Cox is Rolling Out New Data Caps in 13 States
Do you have Cox as your Internet service provider? If so it is likely you now have a data cap. This week Cox announced that they are rolling out data caps in 13 states that place an arbitrary 1 TB limit on your data. If you go over the 1 TB limit you will be…
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Should Cord Cutters Be Worried About a Data Cap? We Answer Your Questions
Cord cutting is an amazing way to save a ton of time; however, to get access to most of the services you still need an Internet connection. How do data caps affect cord cutters? Let’s take a look at how quickly you would use the most common data cap—about 1 TB a month—up. Note we…
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Updated: Looking for an ISP Without a Data Cap? Here Are the ISPs Who Let You Stream All You Want…
We all love to stream a ton of movies and TV shows. Don’t forget about gaming, Facebook, and hundreds of other online services; however, the downside of all of this great online content is the fact that it eats up your data cap quickly. Check out our Best Internet for Streaming in 2020 page here for…
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How to Keep Unlimited U-Verse Data After Switching to DIRECTV NOW
Last year AT&T announced that if you subscribe to DIRECTV satellite TV service you could get unlimited data. Typically AT&T Uverse and AT&T DSL customers face data caps anywhere from 300GB to 1TB a month. We recently received several messages from readers who are surprised to see after switching from DIRECTV satellite TV they are…
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How to Get Rid of AT&T’s Data Cap & Stream All You Want
I hate data caps and think they are one of the greatest threats to cord cutting. So we decided to do something to help our readers break free from their data caps. To accomplish this Cord Cutters News has teamed up with Toast.net to offer data cap free unlimited streaming internet to the readers of…
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How to Track Your Data Usage So You Don’t Go Over Your Data Cap
Data caps are a real issue for cord cutters; however, they are one that you can easily avoid. We already gave a few tips to stay under your data cap but what if you just want to keep an eye on your data usage? Most Internet service providers now offer ways to track data on…
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COX Starts to Expand Their New Data Caps
In a move that will surprise no one Cox, the third-largest cable TV company in the United States, is continuing to roll out its data caps. Cox had, for a long time, been a holdout on data caps and then offered a high data cap; however, last November it started testing data caps in more…
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Netflix Has Good News For Users With a Data Cap
Have a data cap? We have good news for you. Recently Netflix updated its streaming to use less data! Netflix did this by adapting a new encoding method called VP9, which is a huge step up from the older and still widely used H.264/AVC. So what does this mean for you? It means Netflix will…