| reply to axiomatic
Re: No no and no. 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. |
