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Re: [General] Clearwire blocks everything
Here's my opinion:
If they're capping absolutely legal streaming video, especially netflix (which is disgusting quality and low bitrate anyway), THEY have capacity issues that THEY need to fix! Sure, they can block all the borderline-illegal stuff they want (read: bittorrent\p2p) but having a single connection to a single server and expecting a decent amount of bandwidth to come down that line without being throttled into oblivion is a reasonable expectation. If they don't alow you to do that, please do everyone a favor and take your money elsewhere. That way ClearWire will get the ficture and change their ways.
Heh, at least when you pay for a mobile broadband connection from Verizon or CricKet (both have a mere 5GB cap) they'll let you use the connection up to that amount without messing with your traffic. Limiting internet to web browsing and checking e-mail (complete with attachments...which are limited to 20 MB usually) is certainly profitable for the ISP, but should be enraging to customers who know what year it is.
A few words to ClearWire: 1997 called, they want their internet back! You know, dialup, where the 'net was too slow to do anything "drastic" though if you had 100 hours of access then by golly you got 100 hours of whatever slow surfing you wanted! All 1.8 gigs if you were connected at a decent speed.
Sure, consumer class internet is based on oversubscription and you're not paying for a T1, but oversubscription is based on the assumption that users WON'T use the connection nonstop 24\7, not that measures should be put into place so that they CAN'T. I'm picky about caps so I want go one better than the following, but the local WiSP has a DS3 serving ~1500 customers. Granted, most of them are likely using a 512k conection, or at most a megabit, and there's a 25GB cap for residential, and 35 for business, connections, but that's it. Internet speeds are somehow fine even though the service is oversubscribed 20:1 bandiwdth wise and no draconian capping policies. Anyone who won't allow mere video streaming on a BROADBAND connection should go...um...do themselves. |
