rebus9
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| reply to houkouonchi
Re: SERIOUSLY-- what is the fuss about bandwidth utilization? said by houkouonchi:The big deal is with the cable companies. They have this big limitation called a node that a ton of customers are on With cable, I can understand that, except that the biggest (potential?) throttler of all may be Comcast and they're the ones bragging about their massive DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades underway. So they are deploying all this additional data capacity and speed, while at the same time REDUCING how much of it you'll be allowed to use. Bigger network, bigger bragging rights, but users will have to pay extra fees if they expect to USE it. Hmmmm.
DSL speeds are so low (compared to cable or FIOS) that huge data transfers aren't possible, so my guess is caps are unlikely.
Even though Verizon is not talking bandwidth caps on FIOS yet, they publicly stated they reserve that right should conditions warrant. With an all-fiber network and 100 Gigabit backbone links just around the corner, they should have no excuse for implementing caps-- other than "because we can" since "everyone else is doing it". (hint: another revenue stream)
said by houkouonchi:As you said above the actual cost in bandwidth should be very little and thus DSL/FIOS type technologies shouldn't ever have to cap their service like cable. If they did they are just being greedy bastards. Hah... I think you just gave the perfect description of the phone companies. |
