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Paying for bandwidth makes sense. More infrastructure is needed to move more bits around. Paying for data transferred does not. Data isn't limited like water o
by JTbane 7y ago
Paying for bandwidth makes sense. More infrastructure is needed to move more bits around.
Paying for data transferred does not. Data isn't limited like water or electricity.
There ought to be a law that advertising a plan as "unlimited" is disallowed if there is a cap.
- ubercow13 7y agoIt’s obviously way more complex than that, though. The ISP isn’t going to make sure that all of their peering links have enough bandwidth to carry the full advertised bandwidth of all of their customers connections simultaneously, in case everyone tries to download at full speed from the same website at once. On their end, the bandwidth is under provisioned. Data caps are a way of managing that that give customers higher peak speeds in exchange for limited data transfer.