I agree the flat cap isn't going to be the end of this. It just happens to be the easiest solution right now and the heavy users are low hanging fruit. As for

I agree the flat cap isn't going to be the end of this. It just happens to be the easiest solution right now and the heavy users are low hanging fruit. As for the 50Mbit on a 150Mbit bonding group -- that's he magic of oversubscription. It's amazing how little bandwidth people actually use. The number of heavy users who are doing 50Mbit/sec non-stop are really the fringe cases. It's actually quite hard to figure out how to max out a 50 or 100mbit/sec for long periods of time. The traffic patterns are extremely bursty. For example a single uncapped modem's traffic. (in MB/sec) http://i.imgur.com/KL1YD.png http://i.imgur.com/KL1YD.png (120Mbit/sec is the bottleneck of my router)