CibbuanoTime Warner to start charging broadband users by the byte
January 22nd 2008 08:43
This will become increasingly more common as the bandwidth in all that dark fiber starts to get chewed up... ISPs used to offer unlimited download connections, but these programs were based on the idea that people use a connection sporadically.
Things have changed quickly since then, especially with the advent of Bittorrent, a fantastic method of downloading large files without using the hoster's bandwidth.
The service providers are a little frightened by this concept... after all, you let your Bittorrent client download all day and all night, pulling enormous files over your connection. The network is constantly being used and the ISP starts to lose its profits.
Time Warner in Texas is going to eliminate their unlimited broadband plan, and replace it with $50 for 500 GB.
Admittedly, 500 GB is a lot of information. Are there people downloading more than that? At 4 GB per DVD movie, that's 125 full length movies... who could watch that much?
The post is from Gizmondo, and you know they've got something else to say:
Exactly right - the ISPs will have to face this eventuality sooner or later... everyone in the media distribution business knows for a fact that we'll move to sending media over the internet - with HD-DVD and BluRay coming up strong, that means bigger file sizes.
Things have changed quickly since then, especially with the advent of Bittorrent, a fantastic method of downloading large files without using the hoster's bandwidth.
The service providers are a little frightened by this concept... after all, you let your Bittorrent client download all day and all night, pulling enormous files over your connection. The network is constantly being used and the ISP starts to lose its profits.
Time Warner in Texas is going to eliminate their unlimited broadband plan, and replace it with $50 for 500 GB.
Admittedly, 500 GB is a lot of information. Are there people downloading more than that? At 4 GB per DVD movie, that's 125 full length movies... who could watch that much?
The post is from Gizmondo, and you know they've got something else to say:
"Supposedly, consumption-based billing is aimed at all you assholes downloading movies from BitTorrent—"heavy users of large downloads," the purported 5 percent that swallows "up to 50 percent of network capacity" in order to improve network performance. But this is, at least partially, BS.
Everybody is using more bandwidth than ever, and that is going to continue ramping up with services like Netflix and iTunes that keep pushing these "large downloads" into the mainstream. So, it might only hit a small percentage of users really hard right now, but soon enough it'll be hitting everybody, which is the real point."
Everybody is using more bandwidth than ever, and that is going to continue ramping up with services like Netflix and iTunes that keep pushing these "large downloads" into the mainstream. So, it might only hit a small percentage of users really hard right now, but soon enough it'll be hitting everybody, which is the real point."
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