Big bandwidth charging overage now
Comcast and others plan on overage fees for using the connection you’re already paying too much for. Even as bandwidth nears commodity status, the big providers are still charging like it’s the rarest mineral on earth. Now they want to cap your monthly transfers and charge you exorbitant fees for going over. All I want is a reasonable connection that isn’t monitored or shaped or capped, etc. Is it too much to ask?
A lot of this is driven by the old telco-minded companies and entertainment-minded companies moving to block competition for their services, like miro, BitTorrent and IPTV. Remember: a natural monopoly is still a monopoly.
Chrisfs 09:53 on 2008/05/21 Permalink
If you have an independant ISP around your area, then I would go with them. I don’t trust Comcast any further than I can throw them. Well before shaping, they were playing hardball with the city of San Francisco in order to make sure they had a monopoly on cable service in the city.
If you live in the SF Bay Area, Sonic and Speakeasy ISPs won’t shape or cap.
lowmagnet 10:28 on 2008/05/21 Permalink
Currently, I’m on RoadRunner, and at my previous home I had speakeasy DSL. I really liked speakeasy, but they were expensive on the cost/mb scale being DSL.