Metered internet

The Internet is a resource, like water and electricity, and should be metered in much the same way.
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lol... um, no?

I don't see the problem he sees.

I read the article twice.
 
i dont see any problems but its a nice alternative option that could/should be made available to people
 
I remember in the days of old when you payed for internet from AOL and Compuserve by the time used......I remember the abuse of the system...lack of security, hacked accounts and getting charged thousands for access you didn't use. Trust me...when you get that bill for a couple thousand dollars that some hacker ran up, you wouldn't think so highly of the idea.
 
Internet access should be by paying for availability and not usage. If you pay for an 8mbit line then you should be able to use that 24/7/365. Companies are instead hiding behind x amount of bandwidth to avoid actually having to fork out to upgrade their network to handle the capacity they sold to customers. Metered internet is just a farce to avoid responsibility and make more money by ripping off people who actually use it.
 
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I think the author should meter his connection based on the number of people who read his article. And once that limit is reached, it is removed. The limit was reach, if anybody cares, when the first person read it.
 
Personally, I found his "reasons" poorly thought out and in some cases would actually make things worse or punish individuals (especially the spam reason) rather than improve things with Metered Internet....
 
/me prepares by searching for open "linksys" SSIDs in his neighborhood

But seriously, folks, people aren't going to stand for metered Internet in the US. If Comcast had to back down after throttling BitTorrent traffic, no ISP in their right mind is going to force consumers into a metered bandwidth plan.

I still think it's ridiculous that most Americans are paying $40-$50 USD a month for 4-8Mb plans when Japanese ISPs offer several times that speed for approximately the same price. When it comes to bandwidth, America is lagging behind many other first-world nations.
 
vibrokatana said:
Internet access should by paying for availability and not usage. If you pay for an 8mbit line then you should be able to use that 24/7/365. Companies are instead hiding behind x amount of bandwidth to avoid actually having to fork out to upgrade their network to handle the capacity they sold to customers. Metered internet is just a farce to avoid responsibility and make more money by ripping off people who actually use it.
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Agreed 99% with Vibro here.
 
vibrokatana said:
Internet access should be by paying for availability and not usage. If you pay for an 8mbit line then you should be able to use that 24/7/365. Companies are instead hiding behind x amount of bandwidth to avoid actually having to fork out to upgrade their network to handle the capacity they sold to customers. Metered internet is just a farce to avoid responsibility and make more money by ripping off people who actually use it.
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My family gets 10 mb/s, or so you would think. We do a speed test every once and again and average between 6 and 9.
 
I actually dropped my cable 7Mbps for DSL specially since the DSL is like 20 bucks cheaper and still runs 5Mbps (on top of that being dedicated to me and not a shared node)
 
Tek7 said:
I still think it's ridiculous that most Americans are paying $40-$50 USD a month for 4-8Mb plans when Japanese ISPs offer several times that speed for approximately the same price. When it comes to bandwidth, America is lagging behind many other first-world nations.
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keep in mind though when it comes to most asian countries they are packing twice the people into less than 20% of our available space. It's much less costly to wire such a small area than it is here where things are so much more spread out. Also they live in much much higher tax zones due to more governmental subsidizing. Frankly keep the gov't out of it.
 
Actually, to some extent the internet is already metered is it not? Your Blueberry and Iphone (and similiar) data packages are esentially meterred acess. I think if you pay more, you get a larger cap for the most part. The only non-metered access is essentially your home access, which, you can pay less for lower amounts of allowed traffic (metering), if you are willing to look.
 
Hescominsoon said:
keep in mind though when it comes to most asian countries they are packing twice the people into less than 20% of our available space. It's much less costly to wire such a small area than it is here where things are so much more spread out. Also they live in much much higher tax zones due to more governmental subsidizing. Frankly keep the gov't out of it.
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If that was true then you would see 40-80MB/sec plans next to major backbones (Atlanta, San Jose, San Fransicso, Seattle, NYC, etc) for around $30 a month. Bandwidth is still excessively expensive and does not scale down as it spreads out like you would think. I think ISPs are purposely limiting the speed to increase profits. They only purchase a fraction of the bandwidth they sell and buy up minor players to create regional monopolies where they have a virtually guaranteed income, subsidized by the government to "expand their infrastructure".
 
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