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Topic: TimeWarner going to usage based internet billing (Read 9321 times)
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Engels
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If the fiscally mis-managed city of Seattle somehow manages to put free Wi-Fi on public buses, the issue is not about a scarcity of resources, trust me here.
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I should get back to nature, too. You know, like going to a shop for groceries instead of the computer. Maybe a condo in the woods that doesn't even have a health club or restaurant attached. Buy a car with only two cup holders or something. -Signe
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cmlancas
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If you substitute Electricity, Water/Sewer, or any other utility where costs increase with usage, a per diem charge is the solution. Why should broadband be different?
Because we don't all use the same Broadband. I use the same electricity as Joe Schmoe next door, but he uses Verizon and I use Time Warner.  |
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Strazos
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The World's Worst Game: Curry or Covid
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One thing I never understood is how you can have different BB ISP if you're all going over the same lines.
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Fear the Backstab!
"Plato said the virtuous man is at all times ready for a grammar snake attack." - we are lesion
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HaemishM
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If you substitute Electricity, Water/Sewer, or any other utility where costs increase with usage, a per diem charge is the solution. Why should broadband be different?
Because we don't all use the same Broadband. I use the same electricity as Joe Schmoe next door, but he uses Verizon and I use Time Warner. And both probably buy THEIR upstream broadband from someone else, so in essence, yes, you are using the same broadband at some point down the line. Murgos got the situation perfectly encapsulated. Bandwidth scarcity is only a factor of how much infastructure a company is willing to pay for. |
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CharlieMopps
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Working for a telephone company, I can tell you that (at least in our industry) the lions share of our money goes into purchasing and maintaining the equipment. The amount of bandwidth people use is pretty much irrelevant to us. The people that are burning up 5gig a night are doing it at off peak hours anyway. Peak times (5-9pm) they turn off their torrents or whatever and surf like everyone else.
This is purely an attempt by them to milk money out of people that probably have no other choice.
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Murgos
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One thing I never understood is how you can have different BB ISP if you're all going over the same lines.
You can, if you're clever, transmit multiple data streams on the same wire in parallel. You know how you have different TV or radio channels (FM, UHF, VHF, etc...) transmitted over air? From a physics point of view it's practically the same thing, just a different transmission medium. edit: Also there are different backbones. They may share entry points, and share data between each other but they are different physical objects. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_backbone |
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« Last Edit: January 21, 2008, 09:44:47 AM by Murgos »
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"You have all recieved youre last warning. I am in the process of currently tracking all of youre ips and pinging your home adressess. you should not have commencemed a war with me" - Aaron Rayburn
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