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Data caps are the biggest rip off and just a way for ISPs to extract extra revenue from customers that don't have a choices. I live in a newer community that ha
by adoxyz 3y ago
Data caps are the biggest rip off and just a way for ISPs to extract extra revenue from customers that don't have a choices. I live in a newer community that has 2 providers that offer 1Gbps service. Neither has a data cap.
My parents live 5 minutes away in a slightly older community that only has 1 high speed provider, and another provider that maxes out at 15Mbps. They have a data cap of 1TB/month, despite the ISP offering 1Gbps service. They then offer Unlimited Data for an extra $50/month.
Consuming 1TB/month is pretty easy to do if you do any gaming/streaming. Most games these days easily consume 50-100GB to download and install.
- bauruine 3y ago50$ for unmetered 1Gbps is 0.000147964$ per Gigabyte. AWS charges like 0.02$ per Gigabyte or 6758$ per Gbps. Somehow people think the later is justified while the first is the biggest ripp off. Can somebody explain this to me?
- adoxyz 3y agoI don't think anyone thinks AWS pricing is justified and in fact many complain about it, but AWS is a behemoth and if you want to reach your customers, you're going to spend money with them. With AWS you get charged on consumption only. If you consume 10GB of bandwidth, you get charged $0.20. With ISP's you pay $80-120 upfront for 1TB whether you use 10gb or 500gb, and then an extra $50 for unlimited on top of that. Why offer 1Gbps service, if your customers are not supposed to use it and would max out the data cap within a day of actually making use of the 1Gbps service?