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wentlancYou Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | reply to espaeth
Re: Wow 100m! said by espaeth:Unless you're paying $500+/mo, you're not even starting to pay for dedicated 50mbps service. You are absolutely right. Let's use your own numbers. If I'm paying $100 a month for 50Mbps service, then given that dedicated service is ~$500 a month (by your own numbers), then I'm paying for ~20% of dedicated service and only getting 1.5%.
said by espaeth:That depends on if you understand what you are actually paying for. Not the crap the marketing departments are telling you, but what you are honestly paying for. Again, you said it, I didn't. These companies are misleading consumers purposely to their own benefit. It's a shame that there is not more honesty in this world....
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 espaethDigital PlumberPremium,MVM
join:2001-04-21
Minneapolis, MN
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| said by wentlanc:said by espaeth:Unless you're paying $500+/mo, you're not even starting to pay for dedicated 50mbps service. You are absolutely right. Let's use your own numbers. If I'm paying $100 a month for 50Mbps service, then given that dedicated service is ~$500 a month (by your own numbers), then I'm paying for ~20% of dedicated service and only getting 1.5%. You're getting a little closer, but $10/mbps pricing is usually on a GigE handoff within the confines of a carrier neutral meet-me facility. You have to factor in the access costs for getting that connection to your house, which drives the cost up a bit more.
There's also some additional for service features (McAfee subscriptions, email, etc), residential support, and profit.
said by wentlanc:said by espaeth:That depends on if you understand what you are actually paying for. Not the crap the marketing departments are telling you, but what you are honestly paying for. Again, you said it, I didn't. These companies are misleading consumers purposely to their own benefit. It's a shame that there is not more honesty in this world.... True, but that's not unique to the broadband industry. As the phrase goes, a fool and his money are soon parted. Buying broadband access without actually doing some research is like going to a used car dealer without any preparation.
Comcast's 250GB cap is a step in the right direction, although I'm sure most people won't acknowledge it as such. Unlike ISPs that promise the world with absolutely no possibility of delivering to every customer, at least some ISPs are disclosing limits on what reasonable expectations are for usage on shared infrastructure.
It would be awesome if it really could be unlimited, but sadly that's just not the case. | |
wentlancYou Can't Fix Dumb..
join:2003-07-30
Maineville, OH | I'm paying for cable, which covers the cost of that infrastructure already. Nice try.
Who freaking cares if other industries do it? I despise them also. But we are here talking about broadband...
Let me be clear, I don't mind the idea of the cap. What I fear is the lack of a fair operational process to increase the cap as NORMAL usage increases. Who gets to define normal, and how often are issues that need to be well planned prior to implementing this plan. For nothing more than to ensure that these companies who now own the content, distribution, and general access are not permitted to create their own artificial moneypots that will hinder our technological development.
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