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| Thread ID: 69643 | 2006-06-07 12:23:00 | About these news ideas from the CC | jesse_jax (9283) | Press F1 |
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| 461438 | 2006-06-09 04:54:00 | 10GB is currently heaps, I mean what do you use all that data on (at least as a sngle internet user)? Sure it you were sharing the connection with your flatmates friends and neighbours with Wifi, you could easily get through 50GB, but I am sure that would be breaching the ISPs T&Cs anywayA family with one heavy user, two moderate users and one very light user can easily get through 10GB of data (I'll add that I am talking about legal usage here, because I know someone will ultimately come to the uninformed conclusion that piracy is the only reason for high usage). What we use our connection for: General internet usage (web browsing, email etc), online radio (about 50 hours per month), movie trailers (about five per month, but HD files are pretty big), internet site backups (not a huge amount in comparison with other uses), the odd demo/trial download, monthly software updates, a very small amount of online gaming (probably only two hours per month). This usage basically amounts to just over 10GB on average per month, we are typically between 8.5GB and 12.5GB. :) ISPs that state unlimited bandwidth, do actually have datacaps that they are starting to implement, and this is due to bittorrent using up heaps of bandwidth which is gettng very costly for ISPs. Datacaps are beneficial to 99% of users, otherwise they end up paying for the excessive usage of the minority. However, I believe it is around 100GB with most ISPs offering "unlimited" access in the UK and the US. Personally I don't know why ISPs tolerate illegal P2P usage on their networks anyway. |
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| 461439 | 2006-06-09 05:14:00 | One day a clued up ISP will offer a plan for "reasonable" users, which doesn't make them subsidize the heavy/greedy users. They'd be able to calculate pretty exactly the bandwidth required with no "unlimited/capped" nonsense, so they could work on fine margins and still make it a very profitable thing. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 461440 | 2006-06-09 07:58:00 | ha! funny what the replys were. trying to blame ME for your slow internet wont work, because ONE, i already GET slow internet, theres probably 10 more users around my house etc that download all the time, i only got 60kbps download speed..what i do with my internet is my business, wether its legal or not. telling me to not pirate is a very stupid statment, as 1: you dont know whether i do or not, and 2: im pretty sure 99% of people have at least SOMETHING pirated on there pc, whether it be a song or windows xp, i have the right to be able to use as much internet as i want, if i pay for it, but the rates at what telecom charge are ridiculous...if i wanted to create a file hosting site, imagine how many 10's of thousands of dollars id have to pay a week?...whether or not you agree, there should be unlimited, maybe at a cost, but there definitly should be. Firstly there is no such thing as 'Unlimited', unbundling will definately not solve this, as there will always be an acceptable usage policy that will dictate usage rates. Your slower download speeds would also be due to traffic shaping, which ISPs all around the world do. Hey maybe you should start an ISP when it gets unbundled, and offer unlimited traffic. |
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