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When I pay for bandwidth to my house, I should get that bandwidth, and be able to use it for whatever I want. I don't care if they oversold their network. It's
by olyjohn 7y ago
When I pay for bandwidth to my house, I should get that bandwidth, and be able to use it for whatever I want. I don't care if they oversold their network. It's not my problem. I should not get punished for using the bandwidth I paid for. If people who barely use the internet are paying the same as me, that's not my problem either.
If ISPs are suffering congestion, that's because they did a bad job designing their network for the amount of demand they have. Throttling is just a way for them to cheap out on their network, but sell "gigabit" internet to everybody. If they can't serve me 1 gigabit, they are selling shitty service.
If they want to charge for X amount of bits per month, that should be the up front pricing scheme. I should not be paying for a "1 gigabit" plan, but have the amount of bits that I can use be buried in the fine print. Especially when bits per month is the REAL indicator of what they are selling.