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Comments on news posted 2009-05-28 14:14:27: There's not a broadband provider out there who wouldn't instantly begin billing you by the byte if they thought you (the consumer) would sign off on it. ..
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Silence
@paetec.net
| Larger familys should be paying more, IF they use more.. "There are too many legitimate and legal uses for bandwidth. They need to reanalyze just what the average amount of bandwidth *households* consume every month rather than the average amount a single person does." It's not their fault that people decide to have ten kids..
If you think of bandwidth as a commodity item that can be used.
Does a family of ten people pay a higher water bill per month than a single person?
If they start metering, a single person who uses less will probably (hopefully) be paying less than he/sh does now. While a houshold of seven, will have to pay more, and rightly so.
Believe me, I'm not for this, I signed on a LONG time ago to Verizon's "Unlimited" dial-up, and they decided to put a cap on that, now with all these talks of capping/metering DSL I'm a little miffed at how you can sign a contract with them for unlimited, and they can just change the rules whenever they want. But I'm pretty sure rule changing is burried somewhere in the contract.
It will really depend on the size of the cap, if it's reasonable, then people won't care, if it's too small and people are going over every other month and having to pay fees, people will be up in arms. | |
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anon me
@senescomarine.com
| what about virus adware so im just wondering what going to happen with all of the bots, virus, spyware, adware.
so now i not only see it that i have to pay for these ads that they want to either inject to are web pages (some isp's are doing this)
now we must pay for the internet that all these bad people want to use to spam and what not and steal are personl info
i can see the isps some how finding another way for them to send us some sorta extra packets and call them some thing like network management blah blah or some such and still racking in another 50 megs a month to charge us
i cant see this any other way then another grab at money
when you see a company try to push some really weak limits and then they stop because of a huge out cry you would thing that they would stop
if you ask me if a peice of shit smells like shit dont try to paint it a differrent color and try to sell it to me again | |
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Capless
| uh .. the noise? You're leaving out the internet "noise" blocked in general by your firewall and/or router ... the hundreds of pings, port scans and other unsolicited traffic hitting your IP address for which your provider will be charging and counting towards your cap. A DoS attack on you could blow your cap without you even opening a browser. There's no way (in practical terms) your ISP could tell the difference nor is there any incentive for them to do so.
It is so different for packets than water molecules or amps in an electical service. The incremental cost per packet when the network is running below capacity approaches zero. Since we are ALREADY charged for some fixed portion of the capacity, in bandwidth terms (dishonest as that may be especially on shared coax), further byte-counting is just plain revenue enhancement. I already buy a huge much larger hunk of bandwidth in FiOS-TV (100+ channels) than I do in internet bandwidth (20/5) yet proportionally I pay much more for the internet packets than the ones running the TV boxes (I know deep-technically it's different but you get the point).
If the programming is available I don't care about what media it comes through. The real problem is cable-style bundling benefits the controllers of the medium, today, not the customers, and we naturally look for ways to get what we want on our terms rather than the terms of those who try to create scarcity on the medium. | |
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