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Why is this being upvoted? Who does not overcharge based on this idiotic logic? It may have made for a humorous joke on reddit, but I expect better here.

masklinn 16y ago
> Why is this being upvoted? Who does not overcharge based on this idiotic logic? Everybody else? In Belgium (not exactly the most forward-looking country internet-wise), I can get no-caps internet for 25€ (12M/740K). That's $34. I only have to download 17GB a month to blow out the $2/GB canadians get. I checked, the current billing month started on the 29th and I already ate through 11.5GB. That's over 4 days (closer to 3 actually, but let's play it tight), which means if I continue at this rate by the end of the month I'll have used roughly 85GB, putting my effective costs at $0.4/GB. 20% of the Bell rate.
marquis 16y ago
This is 2011. We have Netflix, gigagbytes of free online storage, dropbox.. Try living in New Zealand or Australia for a while. You start spending time checking your services are not downloading updates automatically, or disabling dropbox except a few days of the month so you don't blow your limit. You wait 2 days for a DVD to arrive in the mail from the local Netflix equivalent. You don't watch local news videos, or upload HD to Vimeo. You get upset at your US friends who email you a 5gb mp3. You're careful about where you hit play. You install AdBlock and worry about not supporting communities that rely on ads. It goes on and on and on - the fact is, our internet culture has grown to where downloading and uploading is a necessity, especially for the youth. Limits are serving to put media control back in the hands of those who control the method of transmission. The entire topic infuriates me as I've experienced limited and unlimited connections, and I certainly can attest to the greater production output I have when on an unlimited connection. The reddit post points how exactly how ridiculous it is to be charged for something in this manner, the sheer unfairness of it. ISPs need to be reproached by their customers, and that will only happen by making it an emotional issue.
- snsr 16y ago
  Customers' only effective paths to reproach would be to either cut themselves off from culture and communications, or to switch to a competing ISP with more favorable terms. Conveniently for most ISPs, there is no competition.
  - marquis 16y ago
    This is where web companies and consumers come together, and large companies like Amazon can have a conversation that means something with the government. It's in Amazon's benefit (or Apple/iTunes, whatever large company makes money from media downloads) to work with the consumer here.

masklinn 16y ago

> Why is this being upvoted? Who does not overcharge based on this idiotic logic? Everybody else? In Belgium (not exactly the most forward-looking country internet-wise), I can get no-caps internet for 25€ (12M/740K). That's $34. I only have to download 17GB a month to blow out the $2/GB canadians get. I checked, the current billing month started on the 29th and I already ate through 11.5GB. That's over 4 days (closer to 3 actually, but let's play it tight), which means if I continue at this rate by the end of the month I'll have used roughly 85GB, putting my effective costs at $0.4/GB. 20% of the Bell rate.

marquis 16y ago

This is 2011. We have Netflix, gigagbytes of free online storage, dropbox.. Try living in New Zealand or Australia for a while. You start spending time checking your services are not downloading updates automatically, or disabling dropbox except a few days of the month so you don't blow your limit. You wait 2 days for a DVD to arrive in the mail from the local Netflix equivalent. You don't watch local news videos, or upload HD to Vimeo. You get upset at your US friends who email you a 5gb mp3. You're careful about where you hit play. You install AdBlock and worry about not supporting communities that rely on ads. It goes on and on and on - the fact is, our internet culture has grown to where downloading and uploading is a necessity, especially for the youth. Limits are serving to put media control back in the hands of those who control the method of transmission. The entire topic infuriates me as I've experienced limited and unlimited connections, and I certainly can attest to the greater production output I have when on an unlimited connection. The reddit post points how exactly how ridiculous it is to be charged for something in this manner, the sheer unfairness of it. ISPs need to be reproached by their customers, and that will only happen by making it an emotional issue.

snsr 16y ago
Customers' only effective paths to reproach would be to either cut themselves off from culture and communications, or to switch to a competing ISP with more favorable terms. Conveniently for most ISPs, there is no competition.
- marquis 16y ago
  This is where web companies and consumers come together, and large companies like Amazon can have a conversation that means something with the government. It's in Amazon's benefit (or Apple/iTunes, whatever large company makes money from media downloads) to work with the consumer here.