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> Instead of adding more lanes or limiting the number of cars per hour, you start limiting the distance that cars can go. How is that going to help? It helps b
by usrusr 8y ago
> Instead of adding more lanes or limiting the number of cars per hour, you start limiting the distance that cars can go. How is that going to help?
It helps by making people think twice about doing unnecessary trips. Unlike driving, where people's patience for sitting in traffic is naturally limited, appetite for IP traffic is almost unbounded. Data caps prevent the equivalent of continuously running your toilet flush.
- shmerl 8y agoExcept data caps still won't prevent the actual problem, I already explained above why. Even if you pretend it's a psychological deterrent - it's not really a solution to the technical issue. And ISPs will try to avoid admitting the obvious, that caps are a convenient tool to rip everyone off. If they are worried about congestion, they have only two things they can do: 1. build their network up. 2. start reducing bandwidth of each connection, if they are too many of them.