Re: Metered bandwidth will never work -

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jester121 Premium join:2003-08-09 Lake Zurich, IL Reviews: ·voip.ms	reply to frost203 Re: Metered bandwidth will never work You clearly have no clue about how residential bandwidth markets work. So called "oversubscribing" is how they're able to offer 10Mbps for $40 (or whatever low prices we've become used to). It's based on statisically how much aggregate bandwidth is needed to support X number of typical subscribers. Under your scenario I assure you, you wouldn't be paying less than $50 a month. Price out a dedicated 10Mbps business class circuit sometime and you'll see what "fair" pricing is.
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frost203 join:2005-09-17	"business class" exactly a term coined by marketers to imply that the service is somehow more special. its a pipe, a pipe just like any other. their statistical analysis is to maximize users and bandwidth, this model obviously has flaws they gotta use a new model. ISPs gotta realize that people will having their PCs up day and night, their network "the network we pay for" should accommodate that.
frost203 join:2005-09-17	to forum · permalink · 2007-12-08 00:07:55 ·

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