[vomjom]

I think this is fair. Bandwidth costs money, usage likely follows a power law distribution, and their fees are reasonable:

AT&T: $10/50 GB = 20 cents/GB

Amazon S3/EC2: 10 cents/GB

It's not like we're being gouged here...

[Bud]

$10 is fully half the monthly fee for ATT DSL. So they are charging quite a bit more for data if you go over the cap.

I'd be less ticked off if the rate above cap were more similar to the rate below cap, and if the cap allowed saturating your link more than 9% of the time, which is what this cap does for DSL users with a typical 6.5 Mbps download speed.

To buy a connection that can actually be used 24/7 with the new price structure would cost well over $200/month. That's not cool.

[CoffeeDregs]

I agree. I'd prefer transparent pricing to whatever we have now...

[Bystander]

problem is, we're already paying for bandwidth - now they want to limit how long we can use that bandwidth.