QOTD: How Much Would You Pay for Uncapped Net?
With all the commotion circling around Time Warner Cable and other companies, it's no surprise that customers and enthusiasts are up in arms over connection caps.
Because of the improvements--although slow--we've had over the years, many great services have popped online, and people are doing many things online today then was even thought possible a decade ago. But now, net connection capping threatens to turn back time and put things like streaming, cloud computing, rich media services, game/software publishing and other content into slow motion.
The question of the day is: How much are you willing to pay for an uncapped connection?
This is bull$h1t PERIOD!!!
Haha, returning back to reality, the price really depends on speed, but if there were two packages offering capped and uncapped... it would still depend on how capped the capped package is.
For example, I wouldn't pay much more for 250gb vs uncapped, whereas 20gb vs uncapped would pull about another thirty $$$ a month from my wallet.
That aside I don't mind paying around 50$ for higher speeds ( 20 mbps perhaps ? ) if I ever find myself with a need for it.
But again, we are paying $60/mo and that's not enough??
Technology is to strong and grows to fast, these caps wont be able to exist. Hollywood needs to get used to the idea that all movies will be digital streams soon, and it dont matter what kind of deals they cut with ISP's.
I don't feel like I need every movie or song in existence stored on my computer.
I don't use my computer as a server.
So I'm not sure I'd ever hit the limits. That they are imposing now. I don't mind companies managing bandwidth, as long as the benefits are passed along to the people who use the I-net normally, and as long as the limits don't start interfering with streaming content like Netflix.
I already pay too much for internet ($60/month)
Speed, however, will peak my spending interest. However, I already feel that most providers are overcharging for what piddly bandwidth they currently offer. I think I'm $60/month for 6Mbs? When that number is closer to 20+Mbs, I'll be a little more satisfied with the service at the price.
This is bull$h1t PERIOD!!!
For a 12Mbps line, which is reasonably fast, this isn't outrageous. $40/mo is fair.
I still fail to see how the amount of data used costs the Cable ISP any money. I'm assuming that what they do is merely divide up a direct connection to a backbone of some kind. Why on Earth they would have a metered line themselves is beyond me. And if it is unmetered, as it ought to be, then they don't particularly care how much data one customer transfers.
If they need to implement a system so that one person doesn't spoil the local node for everyone else, then do so my slowing down that one user (just their speed, thats it). Don't do it by capping everyone.