Now, what is REALLY needed is for the ISPs to be honest and admit what they are selling, then people could make their own minds up where they want to sit on the cost vs capacity tradeoff. If you don't want to pay for it, then shut the f*** up moaning about what you won't pay for ! So really it's a matter of "speed costs, how fast can you afford ?" - if you want more, then go to an ISP that offers it and pay for it. Something in the order of 20x to 40x (or more) depending on what you compare it with. The only problem is that none of you whining b***ards will want to pay for it as it costs "quite a lot more" than your shared, capped, ADSL. So, if that's what you want, you CAN have it.
Yes, 6mbps both ways, not shared with anyone else, and with absolutely no caps. I'm switching over tomorrow evening to a service with uncontended 6m symmetric unlimited connectivity (at work I'll hasten to add). Once again, there are the usual "should get all day every day with no limits" posts. Thumbs down because there is no good solution where everyone wins. Oddly enough my cable company seems to have been able to keep up a minimal set of network performance - subsidizing its internet access by doubling it's television cost over a five year period. Not saying that everyone should pay $1500 a month for internet service, but the price point needs to be higher if people are going to expect a minimal amount of performance. It reminds me of the insurance companies here in the states that insure for natural disasters and than cry for a government bail out when a natural disaster actually occurs.
Itunes biting the bullet Patch#
Throw in Windows patch Tuesday and several computers per houshold and again, we're using more bandwidth than our $30 is covering in cost.įor less than $400 a year an ISP is supposed to deploy the network, maintain it, perform upgrades, employ a call center for the boobs who download trojans/spyware and blame it on the ISP as well as tech support any network aware application you have that doesn't work, provide you with endpoint hardware to integrate your house with their network, record everything so that when you download kiddie porn/read militant websites it can be provided to the government on a whim, run and secure email (and in some cases web servers) for you, and do everything else under the sun.Įven if you said take the total revenue and divide it by total costs I'd tell you forget it. Now that content is so bandwidth intensive even my grandmother would hit some of these limits. They expect each user to download one song a day via iTunes, and never download videos or watch youtube.Īll this was a brilliant idea when the largest files people were downloading were animated GIFs or flash files. Now that they've opened up this can of worms with $30 a month unlimited 15/mbps down 1/mbps up (over here in the states anyway), Telcos can't go back to a reasonable pricing model. Does anyone remember when bandwidth allotted was based a little bit more in line with the actual cost to the carriers? Before the giant race for who could provide fastest service for the least amount of money.
Itunes biting the bullet free#
ISPs have f'ed things up by giving away everything for next to free and are now trying to stuff a genie back in a bottle.īut you can't have everything for nothing. False advertising and should be prosecuted. I agree with all of the arguments against throttling, shaping, unlimited with the small print, etc. Meh.ĭoes anyone remember when bandwidth was priced based on its cost to telcos? That it isn't any good for IPTV or Movies On Demand isn't a problem: I'd only be able to view a handful in a month anyway, so I'm missing out on a handful of "content. All the faster download speed meant was that it would be earlier in the month before I went over the limit and was either blocked, throttled (so getting less than 8meg) or told to pay premium rates. I didn't want an 8meg line because I wouldn't be able to USE 8megs. Would they be OK if I were probably to pay them (I asked them)? I will probably never go over the minimum cap. I don't P2P and, since I'm using Linux, can't view most of the "multimedia content" out there. Told 'em if I couldn't use the internet and that now they've stopped the 2meg line and introduced download caps, I'm leaving as soon as possible. I was getting DNS lookup timeouts looking for any other servers, mind. I was off during the week for a day (Friday, I think) and the connection to tiscali was fine.