 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
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Minneapolis, MN
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 ·Clear Wireless
| reply to Lazlow
Re: they have not boot me off yet said by Lazlow:Downloading EXCLUSIVELY between 11pm and 8am a 5Mbps customer can download over 500GB a month without slowing down his neighbors or costing the ISP anything extra. This is why the monthly GB cap does not address the issues of ISP costs or congestion. While the logic here is true, most people use their bandwidth during peak times... that's why they're called peak times.
The charge that is often made here is that bandwidth restrictions (either though caps or metered billing) is in direct response to demand caused by streaming video.
So either:
1) Everyone here is wrong and streaming video is not the concern, and capacity can be managed by pushing heavy transfers outside of peak hours.
or
2) The concern really is due to massively concurrent streaming video (ie, all concentrated in peak evening viewing times), and the per-GB numbers are based around the costs to expand the capacity of the pipe to meet peak demand. |
