Comcast plans to only let me use the internet for 11 hours a month....

[QuantumPion]

You guys are aware that Comcast's speed ratings are burst ratings, right? You are only supposed to get the advertised speed rating for like the first ~100 mb of any connection. However bittorrent uses many unique connections so it can get the maximum burst speed rating constantly. Hence the download limits - to prevent the 1%'ers like techs from ruining the connection speed for everyone else.

 

[QuantumPion]

Oh yeah and the most I've ever downloaded was ~200 GB. And in that month I downloaded 3 full seasons of 1080p TV shows, as well as having to redownload all my games twice due to a hard drive dying, including BF3 twice (15 gb x2), the witcher twice (15 gb x2), L4D2 twice (10 gb x 2), and several other games.

 

[darkewaffle]

GODDAMNIT WE SHOULD ALL BE ABLE TO FLUSH OUR TOILETS AND RUN THE SHOWER AND FILL UP OUR POOLS AND WASH THE DISHES AND THE CLOTHES ALL AT ONCE ITS FUCKING BULLSHIT THAT AN UNLIMITED RESOURCE LIKE WATER IS LIMITED BECAUSE OF THEIR BEUROCRATIC BULLSHIT

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[Kev]

It always makes me laugh when someone tries to compare bandwidth to water or electric.

 

[Newbian]

that's low.. thats not even 4 HD movie clips.

the average 1080P clip for 30-45 mins is 2-3gigs each..
I'm sorry but I use 20+ gigs a month even on my phone..

Um...30-45 minutes are not movie clips but about half of a movie and granted previews of movies have been getting bad but they have not been getting that bad.

 

[Pulsar]

20%. 20% of US citizen live in rural areas, and it's dropping. The 50% figure is worldwide. (And it's dropping even faster.)

Find a job without the internet in a town where you don't know anybody. We'll wait.

Also, remember the Rural Electrification Commission? Us big government nannies were right that time, too.

But people in rural areas need reliable internet that's at least fast enough to do useful stuff. And the reliability/cost is more the problem than the "fast enough." Ask anybody with satellite internet, if it's not cloudy and the 1,000ms+ ping doesn't make your chat client give up.

Huh? You want the economy to underperform? Is this english?

MSNBC. The whiny liberal channel is MSNBC. NBC is the parent company, NBC News is fairly moderate and boring. They're also broadcasting the Olympics, which is the biggest self-congratulatory flagfest this side of the Superbowl.

You are correct insofar as I grabbed the world number rather than the US number.

1. Find a job in a town where I don't know anybody? Sure thing. I've done it several times. It's called a phone. Whitepages. Yellowpages. A car. A pair of feet. Your strawman sucks.

2. In what world do people NEED internet. It's a wonderful convenience, but that is all. You need to eat. You need to sleep. You do not need to log on to facebook, pay your bills online, do your banking online or look for jobs over the internet.

3. I'm sorry if you can't understand english. That's not something I can fix for you. Perhaps you can use your high speed connection and the internet to find a solution.

You seem to really be struggling to understand the difference between a necessity and a convenience. I've lived nearly half of the last 20 years in locations with barely useable internet. *gasp*. Much like cable TV, or any TV for that matter, you quickly realize how much of a waste the internet really is (much like this message board). Sure there are some conveniences, but nothing that isn't easily performable in another way. I'll take Wikipedia over a library most of the time. I'll take netflix over Family Video. I'll take internet banking over phone banking. I'll take monster.com over cold-calling. But not a single one of those things can't be handled in other ways.

I see that attitude a lot in the 25 and younger generation. They've had the internet the whole time and simply can't imagine life without it. They also struggle to understand the difference between things they want and things they'll need. They'll learn.