| Does nobody understand? When you pay for speed you pay for bandwidth, not just the ability to download your email really fast for a millisecond. If that were really the case then there would be no point to tiered service, everyone would be fine with 768kbps dsl. Caps on cable to some extent have a logical argument for QOS when you consider the fact that they are shared locally and your neighborhood is sipping out of the same straw, only so much to go around at any one time... hence the slowdowns at peak usage times. For dsl the same argument does not hold water because all users in essence have a dedicated link to the CO and the straw there tends to be multiple T3s (Or at least a very large pipe indeed) and it is a much more difficult proposition to claim that a few individuals are "hogging" enough of that bandwidth to impact all the other people linking through that CO. You guys have either drunk the cool-aid or just seem to like to feel smug that the entierty or your internet experience consists of some email and a minor amount of web-surfing. I sometimes feel tempted to feel smug that I use a cellphone to place phone-calls when I really need to, not to text or take photos or play games, nor to conduct my private life in public, but I don't. These "caps" are just revenue generators, there are many technologies that generate traffic that will exceed them without much effort. My personal "cap" is in the vicinity of 1TB/month or so, there is alot of interesting stuff out there, and that was on a 3MB dsl line. I now have a 10 MB line, and my useage has not actually changed that much, I just don't download constantly, I actually have days when I don't download at all and some where I download for a whole day. I'm not a "hog" I just always used what I paid for. It would be like paying for movie channels and not watching them. "Caps" are like paying for Showtime or CineMax and then being told that after watching five movies a day or a week or whatever you would be charged per movie like PPV, I think that is a fairly accurate analogy. Long post, I know, but caps and these responses to them are quite irritating. People arguing about Network Neutrality irritate me also, they either apply no logic to their argument or fail to grasp the most basic principle involved. |
