I work out of my house and I have a business connection. Just because business is done at home, doesn't mean you have to purchase a residential package for your house.
True, but that business package is at lease $60 more than i'm paying now.
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I work out of my house and I have a business connection. Just because business is done at home, doesn't mean you have to purchase a residential package for your house.
Maybe we need to have rollever GBs that don't expire
Can anyone say indoctrination? Yes its happening right now with our children.
Parents need to seriously rein in their children, they need to concern themselves with what their children are learning. Just because it was learned in School or with a book doesn't make it good.
True, but that business package is at lease $60 more than i'm paying now.
Strange, Comcast's packages start at $59.95 usually and go up to $89.95 for their fastest service. With BT it was only a few pounds more month.
The thing that pisses me off with all of this, especially with soft caps that we have right now is, how are people supposed to even know how much they've downloaded, or how close to the cap they are, without any information about it? If they want to meter (which would suck balls, since that would be a REGRESSION), then the ISPs should give you an email daily with the amount of bandwidth you've used, and how much you have left according to them. And they should also provide a utility, free of charge, that lets you keep track of it, so you can compare it to what they claim you have used just to be sure they aren't ripping you off.
I wonder if I'm going to reach my "soft cap" this month with Comcast.. considering all the Direct2Drive $5 deals and the Left4Dead deal on Steam... I've had to have downloaded over 120GB worth of stuff in the last 2 weeks right there!
The reasonable cap per month for an internet connection is your max advertised speed x 24 hr x 365 days / 12 months.
The plan i have is 15 down 8 up. i pay $30 a month. 90 is 60 more
Man, you have a great deal then, never gotten speeds like that for that cheap. Either way, have to pay to play (or work, and then it's a write off)
You have to get them to do what you want, because they want to do it. Can't get stuff for free, but cheaper is always better.
Can anyone say indoctrination? Yes its happening right now with our children.
Parents need to seriously rein in their children, they need to concern themselves with what their children are learning. Just because it was learned in School or with a book doesn't make it good.
Ron Mexico,
I'm not saying your wrong, but when did they get "BILLIONS FROM THE GOVERNMENT"?
Again, I'm more curious than anything what that was for if your statement is legitimate. If your just making it up, then well I guess making sh!t up is par for the course on the internet, Fox News, CNN and whatever other sources of information we have.
I will tell you this....I will simply just turn off the internet services and learn how to live without internet.
I am tired of big business and big government. I am tired of paying more taxes for the US government. I am very disappointed in my American brothers and sisters that have chosen to vote in corrupt politicians that will ultimately destroy our country.
Rant over...
Verizons Chief Technology Officer told a conference that he believes broadband metering is inevitable. Lovely, another huge internet service provider that believes in throttling internet traffic.
Won't someone please think of the children.
Wait....wrong subject.
I say we just let the interweb self implode and go back to 1996 where we were outside playing instead of on the computer all the time. Where we got porn from the corner gas station instead of online.
Where we either called up the person or talked to them face to face instead of IM or TXT msg.
Those were the days, those were simpler times, and I'm only 28
unless you are just checking emails or browsing low bandwidth sites, metered internet will eventually make everyone's bill go upMetered broadband is going to unfairly penalize torrent users who are clogging up our current crappy resources. Oh wait, may that is fair.
Well, just hope Verizon doesn't pull a Canadian move. Increase speeds by 2Mbps for "free", and cut the already limited 100GB bandwidth -> 65GB. Bandwidth cuts across the board.
Kristoff, I did spend 3-4 minutes googling. I didn't see anything. Hence the question. I was looking to become educated on the subject, because GENERALLY, there are more smart people posting on this site than most sites. However, for every good post there is another FUD post. BTW 50/50 is still a pretty good ratio for an internet forum, lol.
I am a skeptical person by nature. Which is why I question a post,stated as fact, that I wasn't aware of. In any case, thank you for dismissing my question.
I'm certain I could refine my search if I knew what the money was provided for. The only possible thing I can think of would be for improving infrastructure to rural areas.
Read this and learn: Very eloquently put:Metered broadband is going to unfairly penalize torrent users who are clogging up our current crappy resources. Oh wait, may that is fair.
Yes. This needs to be said more.Read this and learn: Very eloquently put:
Kill the P2P cannard already
"...managing network traffic is an important way to prevent high-bandwidth applications such as P2P sharing from slowing traffic for all users..."
I call shenanigans on that statement. Can we kill it already.
If a user has a 1Mb down .75Mb up connection to the net and they are only running a bit torrent client it may consume the entire 1/.75 connection. It's not going to magically eat all the bandwidth on the internet, it's not even going to consume all the bandwidth of their ISP. No 'traffic shaping' is required.
If I have a 1Mb connection and you have a 1Mb connection the fact that I'm actually using my entire connection _only_ effects you if our ISP only has 1Mb that it's reselling. That's the rub with P2P and other high bandwidth applications. Before the advent of P2P and HD video streaming users rarely used their entire allotment of bandwidth and the few times they did was relatively short lived. Overselling at the rate of 1000 to 1 or 10000 to 1 is a thing of the past if people actually get to use the bandwidth they are paying for.
If the ISP has 100 Mb of capacity and their users are using all of that bandwidth, if they go out and acquire another 100 Mb of bandwidth, some evil P2P application isn't going to somehow gobble it all up. If the user still has a 1 Mb / .75 Mb connection that's the most bandwidth they will consume.
So please, kill that meme already. The problem isn't evil P2P applications, it's ISP's overselling their network. They want the ability to throttle or otherwise 'network manage' your connection so that you only use 0.1 Mb of the 1.0 Mb connection you are paying for. In that way they can continue to oversell their network without actually having to invest in improving their capacity.