Quick question. If your internet provider were it institute a monthly data cap, or has already enacted a data cap, would you or have you changed providers to one that does not arbitrarily limit your data in some fashion? Heres a stat that might render you a bit shocked. If you take a providers top plan (~100Mbps), and you use the internet at the limit for which you pay a premium, you will reach your monthly cap at less than 3 hours a day. The standard answer by these companies as to why they do this, is that it is to control congestion. This is the wrong way to do it. Its akin to limiting a car to the speed limit by filling the trunk with cement. While that might actually work, its not the way to do it. The congestion might be limited but only as a side effect. Besides the congestion issue is a function of prime user hours. Limit all you want but everyone on the net at 6pm and youre still going to have congestion and poor end user performance. Interesting side note is because of the corporations oversubscribing the network and actual congestion because of this, your particular data consumption actually goes up! Yeah, congestion = collisions=retransmissions/errors=increased bandwidth usage. So they sell something they dont actually have (the capacity for everyone to simultaneously use the speed they have contracted) and if only a fraction of what they sell gets used at a particular time, your end user experience goes down and your actual costs go up! You pay more to the company screwing you over, just because theyre screwing you over.
Posted on: Mon, 25 Aug 2014 14:27:46 +0000
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