Bandwidth Place 2

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26444853/

this is crap

yeah i just saw this earlier this mornin... its so wack

Oh... but.. but.. NOOOOO! I just upgraded my Comcast to BLAST 16 too, and I get way over 16mbps down. Now I can't "use" it.

I get 30,000/3,000 now

so what if I get capped at 250GB, I don't have NEARLY that much stuff that I really want to keep and I it would be just downloading for the hell of it. There might be 250GB TOTAL of stuff out there that I want right now, *might be*

My mom, who has comcast, just got her 250GB notice of cap. It really is a lot of bandwidth and she would never come to that, and nether would I, but where does it end? If we don't protest now we may not be able to when they want a 1GB limit.

Agreed, it is going to be downhill from here. One thing to hate about this is that they aren't trying to catch up with certain other developed countries by upgrading the infrastructure to sustain higher speeds and bandwidth. No, they want to catch up with the lower developed areas with ISPs that impose even lower bandwidth limits. WRONG DIRECTION.

What are all the upcoming web services (that use larger amounts of bandwidth) going to do? How quickly will one hit their bandwidth limit by simply sitting in any of the streaming video and ad filled lobbies in the upcoming Playstation Home?

Granted, 250GB is a large amount of bandwidth so Comcast won't be finding too much opposition until they lower it considerably. Protesting may be in order but I tend to view protesters as "liberal morons" so it will be a cold day in hell or a limit that limits me before I become hypocritical.

and not to mention progress. As I saw it fiber optic was supposed to take this fear imminent bottle neck of information as users rise in number and lay them to rest. We need to push harder for fiber optic, both phone and cable, to be run everywhere.
I already told my mother that she was paying this set amount of money for this much speed and unlimited bandwidth. Now they are restricting your bandwidth and still charging the same price. Why didn't they reduce the rate to match the reduction?

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industrie ... usat_x.htm

Verizon's upgrade to fiber optic is indeed already underway, but they plan to spend $23 billion just to upgrade a third of the 28 states in which they provide service. Now, from a company standpoint, would you rather spend that much or simply limit everyone's bandwidth? Comcast did the logical choice.

So just charge like cell phone carriers do, makes sense to me. :]

Sorry, and call me old but I believe internet on a cell phone is a waist of time. email is about it other then apps like GPS

Yeah internet browsing on a phone is quite a slow process, but when you're away from home/computers, its a great way to check up on things online. Price-matching online when you come about an interesting-looking sale in a store comes to mind. Of course, such a use is NOT worth the $30/month they charge for the data plan. Damn iPhone users! AT&T removed everything but the $30 Unlimited plan due to the iPhone so I can't just get something with a usage limit more catered to my level of use.

Nope, there is nothing that ether can't wait till ya get home or remind yourself to do before you leave. I have gone shopping with a small bundle of papers with prices of different things to compare. by the time your done paying for that service and looking it up someone has come by and bought the last one

So your solution is preemption (and otherwise "postemption"), but that doesn't cover all cases where mobile internet could be useful.

There are some things you can't know beforehand, or that what you found beforehand was wrong. For example, last summer I had to ship my Dell laptop back to Dell due to its piece of shit LCD. Got Dell's free shipment box for the laptop and jot down two DHL shipment locations to go to, turns out BOTH of them were just those puny drop boxes that couldn't fit my laptop shipment box. Without an internet capable phone (I don't ask people for favors, not my style.) I had to drive back home to check for other locations. Chose two more, one being an actual third party mailing facility (so shouldn't be just a drop box) and another that was an unknown. Turns out they were a long-gone mailing business and a drop box, respectively.

Great, now I'm ticked off by DHL's outdated and insufficient information and really don't want to drive back home AGAIN and look like an idiot to the guys painting my neighbor's house. I go to the nearby library to check their computers but they didn't open yet so I just park there and desperately try to find out more shipment locations on my W810 instead, but the phone's shit browser doesn't support anything. I get stuck at the point where I enter my zip code, unable to get results beyond that page.

That is life without respectable mobile internet access.


This is life now, taken from my new phone just a few minutes ago.

Having mobile internet access, like having anything else, is better than not having it. That alone is reason enough. You say it's a waste ("waist") of time, I say that there are just some situations where having it can save you hours of time.

What I think we can both agree on, but you didn't mention, is cost. Is the $30/month I pay for Unlimited Data on the phone worth what I use it for? Certainly not, and I will be canceling the plan after the required 6 months. I'll just live with the $0.01 per KByte charges afterwards. It is a hefty rate but in the end it should be the more cost-effective option assuming limited usage.

LMAO, nothing you stated is necessary. As a matter of fact, that bit sounds like an episode of Days of Our Lives. LOL. but I mean that in a good way