| dialup could do it Using email as a base is pretty bad. Only if the average joe could understand that. Dialup could handle all the email someone ever wanted to do... why couldn't broadband. Sad that some people buy into the super-large-number-effect. "WOW THATS A LOT OF EMAIL, ILL BE FINE!"
And high resolution pictures? What, 3MP? I would consider high resolution starting at 6MP (and not overly compressed).
ISPs should be more blunt - "if you download/upload a shit ton of content from P2P, backup storage, or streaming media, you could be at high risk for overage charges. Oh yea, the bandwidth limit is xxxGB. If you are absolutely confused, then you will not be affected."
Seems to me the majority of people who this concern would be the ones who knew better. I think people know when they download a lot... and if they don't then they are not all the tech savvy and probably only check email or surf the web. I say this as a generalization, it does not apply to all situations. |
