| reply to cypherstream
Re: There is a bandwidth meter... "With all of this great technology in place, why such low caps?"
You're missing the big picture.
People get broadband this fast for one reason- video. Whether it's downloads, or streaming, they want to watch something.
Cable tv has outlived it's usefulness. It's overpriced for what you get. Prices go up every year. Stations get cut and prices still rise. You pay for a boatland of channels you don't want, but have no choice about. People are getting fed up with it.
You can watch pretty much everything shown on basic cable online. You can also get a sweet deal like the one from Netflix- $9 a month for all the movies you can stream to your tv. Compare that to cable's overpriced video on demand at $4-5 a movie.
So in an effort to stop people from using Netflix online, they've instituted these draconian caps because streaming video is eating into their profits. People want to watch movies in the evening, having this "peak" BS effectively curtails that option.
There is no competition, and they know it. You can't watch Netflix on a 3 Mbps DSL stream, and Verizon has no interest in improving the infrastructure here to provide faster speeds. And the devil will be lacing up his ice skates before you ever see FIOS here. So they do what they want, just because they can get away with it. Where are people going to go when there's no competition?
If Prolog had any sense, they would see that the handwriting is on the wall as far as cable tv. People want bandwidth to do what they want with. Streaming video is now a force to be reckoned with. Prolog should just accept this fact, and provide the fast dumb unlimited pipe that people are asking for, instead of standing there trying to hold back the flood like the little boy with his finger in the dike. |
