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Common sense should apply here, however. Read the contract you enter (duh) and you'll find that you are expected to be respectful to your neighbors, as any decent person should consider being. That said, if you have a legit buisness need, there are uncapped accounts for such needs available at the appropiate price levels. If you're sucking warez all day from mom's basement, you deserve to be force to change addictions or face the pains of dialup.
Availability is a huge concern, but the average bbr junkie already has broadband. This isn't dialupreports, this is broadbandreports/DSLreports.
Options ARE available to those of us out of luck via wireless, fiber, sat latency, cable, adsl/sdsl. ISDN, or IDSL. ISDN is limited to 128kbit if you get both channels, and the ISPs offering quality ISDN service at a reasonable price are quickly dropping in numbers. Multilinking is not broadband, so that's quickly out as well. That leaves my good old bastard child of a service. I'm currently on a 149.99/month IDSL (144/144 kbit) package. Why, you may ask? Oh, so I can game an hour or two a night, download patches in minutes/hours rather than days, and the "normal" things most BBR'ers take for granted. Ever try to help out someone via PCAnywhere/Remote Desktop over a dialup or sat? HAH! Dream on. I, along with anyone else in my boat, surely wish dialup was "good enough" but unfortunatly it just isn't. There is no wild card for access just yet, and until then the big boys will just sit on what they have so long as it keeps producing usable cash flow.
Sure, I can get by now, but I'm paying over $1 per kbit to do so.  Sure, I could move, but that's just retarded. I could literally move across the street (if the money fell from the sky) and have over 8mbit of bandwidth for what I'm paying here. All because SBC doesn't believe in RTs anymore, nor stringing a simple piece of line across the street instead of going down a few miles and around to god-knows-where.
So, it is more important for the bandwidth hogs to keep forcing providors to raise rates on your typical broadband rather than to save them money, so that they can afford to roll out better service to you and expand their coverage areas? That's basicly what you guys are crying here, and what this little list claims, but this is biased towards the broadband addict crowd whom are accustomed to having broadband 24/7/365. MORE MORE MORE!
And for the record, I was one of the first in my area to have @home when it first came around. We didn't even get billed for a few months, and it was great. I had sub 20 pings to dozens of game servers at all times, tight to the cap downloads and uploads, and even moved _4_ times at the least across town and had just as good of a connection for over 3 years. I went through the @home fallout, attbi, comcast, etc and all in all loved it to death. I've been on IDSL for over a year, and trust me, I took cable for granted oh too much. As painful as it was, I moved on the exact same day the 3.3mbit comcast upgrade occured in our area. The SAME day. Since then, I'm sitting on a good moment 25ms from my first hop, with a whooping 16.7kbyte download. For over 2x as much as most of you pay. Why so much? Because they can. There's no way in hell it costs Covad+SBC this much to provide such a tiny amount of bandwidth (and I don't even really do long/large downloads here because of the time involved), but they can milk it for all its worth.
That's OK with you guys though, but them enforcing a quality of service control upon the users that are dragging the network down is soooo bad. If you think ISPs are going to say, OK we're going to let everyone suck 100% of their SHARED bandwidth 24/7/365, and our magic wand will bring everyones latency down, all while still charging the same "too-high" of rates, you are seriously out of your minds.
2p and some assorted change. 
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