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Re: Perhaps if they offered a two tiered model..... Not when we have big system updates that have to be download all the time. Vista sp1 may max out at 1gb. Also M$ killed off auto patcher so we not need to download the update on each system useing auto update / Microsoft update or set up a WSUS sever with is to much for a few system in a home And is just for you OS. Games and other apps now days have lots of big updates that you also need to download.
So this may push people to hold off on updates to keep under there bandwidth limits. |
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| Yeah it's typical for metered pricing to be higher than reasonable... especially for wireless data.
$5 per megabyte.
Download 1GB in Windows Updates, that'll only cost you $5000.
DSL ISPs that have metered plans are usually more like $10 per gigabyte with a base price of say $20... so that 1GB of Windows Updates comes to $30... but if you have 3 machines: $50 plus whatever other bandwidth you use. Many users would regularly see bills over $100 for something that used to cost $30-40... and even grandma would incur extra costs because of updates, etc. that she doesn't even know is happening... which brings up botnets... so the power users would pay a lot because they are actively using the net, and the clueless users would pay a lot because THE NET is actively using THEM. |
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Beverly Hills, CA | Having seen metered plans first hand in other countries, usually data like Microsoft updates or Linux distributions or other stuff like that can be placed on the ISPs server, and usually isn't metered. It saves the ISP a lot of bandwidth usage, and the customer some money. |
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