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Re: hmmmmm For one thing, you control how much electricity and heat is used. With data, you do NOT directly control what you use. For example, there are ads pushed to you on a web page. There are commercials pushed to you on Hulu, etc. There is spam sent to you. There are DOS attacks and other thing that will eat your bandwidth.
The current way of doing things is just fine. You guys are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg if your not careful. | |
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2 edits | said by jjeffeory:For one thing, you control how much electricity and heat is used. With data, you do NOT directly control what you use. For example, there are ads pushed to you on a web page. There are commercials pushed to you on Hulu, etc. There is spam sent to you. There are DOS attacks and other thing that will eat your bandwidth. The current way of doing thing Is is just fine. You guys are going to kill the goose that lays the golden egg if your not careful. Actually this is a very important point that needs attention. We cant control all bandwidth to our computers via the Internet. This will certainly put a big dent into adverstising and other Online revenue (coincidently this would make the ISPs very happy in itself).
With this said I do feel a little of the ISPs pain...choke choke, I cant believe I just said that. Billions are being made via the Internet and ISPs just want more of the pie and not be the only one's stuck with the dirty work (lower profit margins, huge investments, tons of support staff, etc...) of providing the core network. Certainly I dont favor metered use but Im inclined to think that I would not be impacted since I am not a heavy downloader. If it must be metered it will only work if its seen to cut down on abuse, period. Maybe set caps during peak hours only. Meaning if you go over 250GB/Month during the time period of 5pm-11pm would you face overage charges. Any time spent online outside of these hours would not count towards the limit. Much like how the phone companies provide Unlimited use during non-peak hours. Just an example idea that could be tweaked since I am awaare there are abusers downloading 24/7.... but does this really negatively impact network performance outside of peak hours? Im not sure. | |
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