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How will this work out in a world where the telcos seem to be bent on increasing costs and introducing data caps? I live in South Africa, where the normal ADSL
by Sapient 16y ago
How will this work out in a world where the telcos seem to be bent on increasing costs and introducing data caps?
I live in South Africa, where the normal ADSL account gives you 3 Gb of traffic a month (10USD/gig for each gig after that) at a maximum of 4 Mbit/s (10 in a few areas). I know we are probably an outlier, but judging by what happened in Canada recently, and a few cases in the US, its seems possible a reverse case of Moore's law will come into play.
Also, most people (speaking globally), wont have the network capacity to support this kind of system for many years. There would likely have to be a truly massive increase in network capacity before we ever see this really take off.
For fun, try running your computer off an NFS - even with a 100Mbit connection, it gets annoying quickly.