Wave Broadband Sloppily Employing Caps > Thanks for the article Karl.

Thanks for the article Karl.

Amen Drew.

a 50 GB a month cap would equal out to a 24/7 connection running at .15mbps for 30 days. Not much of a deal for 45 bucks. You would honestly be better off with a 1.5mbps uncapped line if you download offline content and don't need it right away. It's a shame 1.5mbps isn't good enough for quality streaming however.

Well, personally, I'd rather manage BW usage and be able to burst download files or stream a movie than be waiting forever and a day for something to download even if it wasn't capped.

But, my internet is paid for by my company as I am on-call pretty much 24x7x365 for our eCommerce business, so I might just have to get upgraded to the 10mb package... I think 100GB is probably doable, but I'd much prefer the 18/2 :P

Personally, I'd rather have uncapped speeds and different tiers depending on how much data is consumed. Sure, it'd lead to slowdoowns during peak times, but then the people who want fast connections download at other times, and maybe the providere subsidizes non-peak GBs.

At any rate, I'm not a fan of a low-BW (anything below 5 Mbps down and 1 up, preferably 20/20) "all you can eat" connection as opposed to a high-power capped connection with reasonable overages (50 cents per gig is *shrugs* reasonable in light of what some other providers are trying to pull) and a slightly smaller "cap" relative to the price of an uncapped line that would take 24x7 downloading to pull the same thing.

reply to drew

The caps on the lower tiers are disproportionate to the cap on the highest tier.

At 6mbps, going through 50GB with 100% legitimate and non-excessive use is pretty easy... A 154 minute HD movie from netflix (at the highest bit rate) is ~4.19GB. At 3800kbps, that's only 2/3rds of the provisioned rate and only for a short amount of time. 10 movies over the course of 30 days combined with actual http traffic... that's really not much at all.

reply to drew
In my opinion, they need to either sell broadband in one of two ways:

1) Speed tiers, no consumption limits.

2) Consumption, fastest network provisioned speeds capable.

To somehow sell their tiers multi-limited is just a little strange. They're trying to say that a 6mb speed user should only be able to download 50 meg, while an 18mb user should be able to download 300 meg.

Maybe a third:

3) No matter the tier: the same cap for all users. 250/300 sounds reasonable with overage options.

NO MATTER HOW they decide to sell it, the overage charges should NEVER exceed the original tier/sold price.

Example: If the 6 meg service comes with 50gb transfer, and SAY it's sold at $39.99 per month, that's $1.25 per gig. The cost for extra service should NEVER exceed that mark. Further, it should never exceed, in my opinion, 50% of the original cost as part of the monthly fee goes to maintaining the infrustructure, and not necessarily moving the data.