Luke
07-06-2008, 06:27 PM
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25513994/
I don't know if this should be viewed as a good or bad thing. While fiber-optic connections have the blazing fast speeds and uninterrupted browsing it always has a condition or two. Most of you know that in the past year the government has become very strict on downloading. First they went after bit torrent and other piracy related websites in a failed attempt to lower download rates, but that failed. They couldn't take failure as an option, so they wanted to get ISP's to start policing the internet. Again, that never went through. However, there is a law going past the Swedish court system that basically allows monitoring of all traffic (don't take this information as solid, I don't have any details to support it). ISP's have started to introduce this fast internet, but at what price? A month or so ago some major players in the ISP business announced that they would be adding traffic limits. Comcast, one of the gest ISP's in the states, was part of this. They added a pretty high limit, or so it looks like it's , to their packages. At first I though "hey, that's enough for anybody", but then I realized I have slow internet. I'm currently on 1.5Mbits ADSL where as in America an average user with fiber-opic will have more than 10x that. Trust me, if you have internet at 20Mbits up and down, you will be going through bandwidth like a mad man, literally. It would take the average user less than 10 minutes to download a DVD rip, and for users who really like to stock up on their media, they will be going through multiple gigabytes per day. In the end the ISP's are loosing more than they are gaining with all this new technology. We once payed hundreds of dollars to get basic internet, now we are paying $30 for fiber-optic. Right now there aren't many restrictions traffic wise, but your downloading habits are being monitored. With all this power in your grasp you will end up loosing track and before you know it you will be getting warning from your ISP. Some ISP's are adding traffic limits and if you exceed this limit you are restricted to a certain speed, but other ISP's are charging you for using more than your limit. Sorry if what I wrote is off-topic or not explaining well enough, but it's 1 A.M. :eek:
Good or bad. Who knows?
I don't know if this should be viewed as a good or bad thing. While fiber-optic connections have the blazing fast speeds and uninterrupted browsing it always has a condition or two. Most of you know that in the past year the government has become very strict on downloading. First they went after bit torrent and other piracy related websites in a failed attempt to lower download rates, but that failed. They couldn't take failure as an option, so they wanted to get ISP's to start policing the internet. Again, that never went through. However, there is a law going past the Swedish court system that basically allows monitoring of all traffic (don't take this information as solid, I don't have any details to support it). ISP's have started to introduce this fast internet, but at what price? A month or so ago some major players in the ISP business announced that they would be adding traffic limits. Comcast, one of the gest ISP's in the states, was part of this. They added a pretty high limit, or so it looks like it's , to their packages. At first I though "hey, that's enough for anybody", but then I realized I have slow internet. I'm currently on 1.5Mbits ADSL where as in America an average user with fiber-opic will have more than 10x that. Trust me, if you have internet at 20Mbits up and down, you will be going through bandwidth like a mad man, literally. It would take the average user less than 10 minutes to download a DVD rip, and for users who really like to stock up on their media, they will be going through multiple gigabytes per day. In the end the ISP's are loosing more than they are gaining with all this new technology. We once payed hundreds of dollars to get basic internet, now we are paying $30 for fiber-optic. Right now there aren't many restrictions traffic wise, but your downloading habits are being monitored. With all this power in your grasp you will end up loosing track and before you know it you will be getting warning from your ISP. Some ISP's are adding traffic limits and if you exceed this limit you are restricted to a certain speed, but other ISP's are charging you for using more than your limit. Sorry if what I wrote is off-topic or not explaining well enough, but it's 1 A.M. :eek:
Good or bad. Who knows?