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 MattAll noise, no signal.Premium
join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
kudos:12 | reply to funchords
Re: 8 GB per day said by funchords:said by Matt:You are not an average user and that is who Comcast is targeting. They are painting with as large a brush as they can. In this case, 250GB covers most of the canvas. You may be an average user in 5-10 years, but right now you're not. 5-10 years is a concern to me. Typical user bandwidth consumption tends to double every 24 months or so. A static bandwidth cap is a cap on our future. Which is why I advocate the review and increase of caps yearly. I've stated as much numerous times. I don't like caps, but I think 250GB is very generous at the moment. There must be controls in place for yearly reviews and FREE increases however. So far the Cable Co's have been good about free speed increases, so I (maybe naively) believe they will extend that practice to monthly caps as well.
I was referring to the amount of usage the OP stated as well as the type. An average user doesn't download 1-4 movies a day, along with 1-2 games, much less all the other stuff he mentions. There simply aren't enough hours in the day for a single individual to download and watch/play all that content PER DAY. A family? Sure, but in the context of the OPs post, he is not an average user if he downloads that much (legal) content per day.
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 funchordsHelloPremium,MVM
join:2001-03-11
Yarmouth Port, MA
kudos:5
1 edit | (MattE, I think you and I agree more than disagree.)  said by Matt:An average user doesn't download 1-4 movies a day, along with 1-2 games, much less all the other stuff he mentions. There simply aren't enough hours in the day for a single individual to download and watch/play all that content PER DAY. A family? Sure, but in the context of the OPs post, he is not an average user if he downloads that much (legal) content per day. We have a medium for the "average user," and its television. TV is a neatly packaged, inoffensive information medium intended for Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Public.
The Internet, on the other hand, is an open system where each individual decides what they want to read, say, or do.
Taking the Internet and packaging it so that only serves the average "surfer" is a disservice to leadership and innovation. It's not the Internet if it prefers X over Y, otherwise Y could never gain enough market share to win over X. This MUST remain true no matter how great X is or how bad Y is. The users, not the ISP, must decide. Otherwise, it's simply not the Internet.
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