something that actually makes me want to post... "metered bandwidth"
I'm reading the newspaper last night at my job... I'm allowed to do this... and I am reading about how some ISP's are test marketing "metered bandwidth" in Texas, California and New York or some shit. Anyway what this means is that you are charged for how much bandwidth you use to surf the web, this includes downloading websites, downloading videos, downloading porn and downloading music. Now I am a game, bittorrent and slsk freak. So this would be a major MAJOR pain in my fuck.
The way I understand it, it works like cellular service, you pay for a certain amount of bandwidth a month, like 50GB, then you do your shit. If you go over your bandwidth allocation of 50GB, you get charged like 1$ for every GB over the amount. But I'm also sure the companies are gonna self service themselves and if you don't use all your bandwidth they don't roll over like your cell minutes.
Thankfully the article goes on to mention how none of the ISP providers where I live are engaging in the test markets. And even goes as far as to mention my ISP, Comcrap... er I mean, Comcast. My ISP claims that they allow most users 250GB of bandwidth and if you come close to your 250GB or go over it they do ask you to curtail your downloading... I am so surprised I have not gotten one of these notices. Maybe it was lost in the mail?
The way I understand it, it works like cellular service, you pay for a certain amount of bandwidth a month, like 50GB, then you do your shit. If you go over your bandwidth allocation of 50GB, you get charged like 1$ for every GB over the amount. But I'm also sure the companies are gonna self service themselves and if you don't use all your bandwidth they don't roll over like your cell minutes.
Thankfully the article goes on to mention how none of the ISP providers where I live are engaging in the test markets. And even goes as far as to mention my ISP, Comcrap... er I mean, Comcast. My ISP claims that they allow most users 250GB of bandwidth and if you come close to your 250GB or go over it they do ask you to curtail your downloading... I am so surprised I have not gotten one of these notices. Maybe it was lost in the mail?