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4 edits | No no and no. Emphatically NO!
My wife and I both work for the same employer. Think largest PC manufacturer on the planet. But my employer no longer gives us money for our net connection. With my wifes BUSINESS VPN usage we go well over the 250Gb Comcast cap with just her work traffic. (Shes a webmaster.) Then if I VPN work from home sometimes, or just play games over the internet along with 3 Tivos all with heavy users (kids) in my house with Netflix streaming and Amazon Unbox rentals, 1 PS3, 2 XBOX 360's, 1 Wii, 2 PSPs, 1 Nintendo DS, we sometimes hit around 350 - 400Gb /month.
So basically there is no option for me. Moving to a business line is about it and the price is astronomical compared to the Premium Triple-Play. So I am already paying a $300/month bill to Comcast.
How much more do these blood sucking leeches want? They are making a mint off of me already.
Overages will only cause me to unhook some of the devices from my home. So now these caps and overages are now not only hurting me but they are also going to hurt Tivo, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Slingbox, Netflix, Amazon, and others I'm sure I have forgotten, incomes from me using and buying from their online services, and even more importantly my employers productivity.
I just don't think an ISP can be anything other than a dumb pipe. To act any differently effects too many things.
Were I Tivo, Microsoft, Sony, Nintendo, Slingbox, Netflix, Amazon, et all I would be fighting this tooth and nail. When us consumers have to not use CE devices just so I can avoid an ISP raping my wallet these companies profits are going to suffer. And guess what, those companies are also paying an ISP so I can get to their product. It just doesn't make any sense. Those companies paid good money for their internet connection (far higher than what I pay) so I can use their product. If users stop using those products due to these caps, were I one of those companies, I would be livid right now. (Just thought of one more industry who will suffer. The power company providing me power. If I have to unhook some of these devices because of the caps then they too are hurt.)
I am the perfect family of consumers. All of our net traffic is 100% legal, its all making money for the various companies products I have purchased. Yet my ISP is putting in place a system where everyone except the ISP looses something. What gives?
(P.S. I was just accepted for the OnLive beta as well. WTF are they going to do? Their whole business model is based on fast internet connections.) | | |
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And in the not-too-distant-future, more and more households will catch up to this level of use if they aren't already.
Solution besides this 'metered' hogwash?
...Stop playing ignorant poor little ISP and quit upgrading 'speed' if you can't handle capacity...
Oh, and leave the internet the frak alone, please. These are most definitely not the droids they are looking for  | |
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said by axiomatic:How much more do these blood sucking leeches want? They are making a mint off of me already. They want your $1.50 per GB over. lol. So with your ~100 GB over that add's another $150 to your already high bill.
The funny thing here is the web hosting industry which has always had strict bandwidth caps, and high overage charges for the most part is moving away from the model and regular ISP's are adapting there old model.
Comcast charges $1.50 per GB overage on there single network, one of my server providers charges 0.10 cents per GB overage and they have 9 providers they have to pay.
Another provider gives me 10TB with a server for $99 a month. And I can use every byte of that 10TB and they are never gonna complain. I found one where anyone can buy a 100 Mbps unmetered connection (33.3 TB) for only 129 bucks a month.
There is no bandwidth shortage, and there networks can take the usage as long as they do there normal upgrades over time.
Bandwidth caps is just an attempt by ISP's to hold off from doing upgrades, get some extra income, and and by some a way to cut down on some internet usage somewhat.
I have no problem with bandwidth caps, as long as the cap is fair. When a ISP provides a 20 Mbps connection but only gives 250 GB or less bandwidth per month thats just wrong.
They should a minimum provide 1/3 of the total bandwidth that connection is capable of. So if they sell a 10 Mbps connection then they should have a 1TB cap with it. | |
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