I’m also a little torn on this. We’ve got bandwidth setup today sold by both the size of the connection, and by usage. Mobile phones were once unlimited over small pipes, once pipes got bigger carriers started selling data packages. If you used your data and went over you could have more, it wasn’t the end of the world. ISP’s more commonly sell you a straw that has no real emphasis on bandwidth utilization. Those are rather affordable for most people, I think TWC has something like 50/5 for 70 USD. For people like myself with young children it is ideal because netflix runs a while and we don’t have cable TV we just stream our content. I haven’t looked at the counters but I’d guess several gigs a week for that alone. If ISP’s changed models to offer both a bandwidth package and a package that sold you total data it might help to address the issue. It will be interesting to see what does happen. Obviously the wireless phone industry changed quickly.
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I’m also a little torn on this. We’ve got bandwidth setup today sold by both the size of the connection, and by usage. Mobile phones were once unlimited over small pipes, once pipes got bigger carriers started selling data packages. If you used your data and went over you could have more, it wasn’t the end of the world. ISP’s more commonly sell you a straw that has no real emphasis on bandwidth utilization. Those are rather affordable for most people, I think TWC has something like 50/5 for 70 USD. For people like myself with young children it is ideal because netflix runs a while and we don’t have cable TV we just stream our content. I haven’t looked at the counters but I’d guess several gigs a week for that alone. If ISP’s changed models to offer both a bandwidth package and a package that sold you total data it might help to address the issue. It will be interesting to see what does happen. Obviously the wireless phone industry changed quickly.
I can’t believe that people are citing that blog article as good evidence of throttling. Two sentences from a random chat support person mean nothing.