Per usage pricing will be the norm. Thank the abusers and very small percentage of users for that.
and everyone will be punished as the caps are set much lower than they should be and everyone (on average) will end up paying more. This will be used to drive revenues/profits up...period.
While that solution is very effective, it only works on the ".com" protocol. This won't have as profound an effect on most Canadians, though any little bit helps.
Another way to save bandwidth is to disconnect your monitor when not in use. This will prevent the internet weather and time daemons from updating (what's the point of updating if you can't see it, right?).
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Per usage pricing will be the norm. Thank the abusers and very small percentage of users for that.
Yep, I'm absolutely certain.Your math is right but are you sure about kB vs kb? I'd have a hard time believing wow uses 15 kB/s while if it's kb/s it works out to more like 130 MB/day.
The business of business is to make money. Get over it.
I'll just cut the Internet off at that point or get a $20 plan that has a 5gb cap or something. Just enough to do online banking, shopping, web browsing. I've lived without Internet before.
Additional Usage Plans can be purchased starting at $5/month for an additional 40GB
One way to get the ISPs to back off of their ridiculously low caps is to BLOCK ALL ADS to save bandwidth. This will at least get the advertisers on your side. I recommend replacing your hosts file with this one (with the added benefit of blocking malicious sites as well). More info here.
In the meantime, you can save more bandwidth with Opera Turbo (available in Opera 11).
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2011/01/25/tech-crtc-bandwidth.html
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/CRTC-Finalizes-ISP-UsageBased-Billing-112406
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news...t-on-usage-based-billing-fees/article1882339/
Bell/crtc hit the final nail in the coffin today, im sure cable will follow soon.
One user got an email from his isp recently, the charges are as follow
So if you use between 55-300gb a month expect to pay almost $100 for internet access.
With these dsl/cable companies also offering tv services, how can a streaming company like netflix survive?
You could watch 25 movies via Netflix stremaing and not hit 25 GB. 25 GB is alot. The only people doing that are torrenting.
That seems excessive (nearly 1GB/hour). How did you do that?
Per usage pricing will be the norm. Thank the abusers and very small percentage of users for that.
Per usage pricing will be the norm. Thank the abusers and very small percentage of users for that.
Bullshit. My roommate and I easily go over 25GB a month, and neither of us partakes in downloading stuff off usenet or torrenting.
One way to get the ISPs to back off of their ridiculously low caps is to BLOCK ALL ADS to save bandwidth. This will at least get the advertisers on your side. I recommend replacing your hosts file with this one (with the added benefit of blocking malicious sites as well). More info here.
In the meantime, you can save more bandwidth with Opera Turbo (available in Opera 11).
You could watch 25 movies via Netflix stremaing and not hit 25 GB. 25 GB is alot. The only people doing that are torrenting.
Standard 720p videos on youtube are 2mbits/s.
(25 Gbits) * (1024 mbit/gbit) / (2 mbit/s) / (3600 s/hour) = 3.55 hours
You will exceed your monthly cap if you watch youtube for 4 hours.
I'm not sure if that 25GB is bits or bytes, so it might be 3.55 * 8 = 28.4 hours. That's not hard to do when there are 2 or 3 people in your house.
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Average American Joe watches about 4 hours of TV per day, IIRC.
This is what happens when you allow monopolies. I thought they were illegal, yet governments are always making exceptions. Corruption is everywhere.
Oh hey, here's spidey with his terrible opinions again. You can add netflix users to your category of 'abusers'... hell, you could probably even add youtubers and hulu people as well.
Actually, it works anywhere in the world. If you have a 64gig system, you don't want double requests for all data you download, once for the 32gig prossor and again for 64gig one. If you delete system32, it will only do 64gig requests which halves your bandwidth usage.
Could you explain the hosts file thing? What's it do, how does it work, etc..?
As for Opera Turbo, it forces Opera to use a proxy service hosted by Opera to compress images whenever it can (secure sites excluded). The images will look worse than normal, but you have the option of right-clicking the image to load the full-size original. Most sites will look slightly worse than normal, but are otherwise fully functional. The bandwidth saved can be substantial (as much as 64% according to Opera), and can even reduce bandwidth on ads if you decide to not block ads. This will only work with Opera.Why Opera turbo over firefox with adblock and noscript?
Was this the same memo that said taking your kids to Taco Bell is child abuse because their beef contains soy and corn as filler?Youtube watchers are abusing the system. Didn't you get the memo?
