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What makes you think the costs would be too high? What technical reason is there for that statement?

• ddunkin 13y ago
  As soon as you get infected or bring a kid back from college and let them torrent like crazy, the bandwidth overage costs get high, fast. I tried this for years with our customers, we're going unlimited because we're tired of arguing with people who can't comprehend this model.
  • diminoten 13y ago
    What are the actual technical reasons, however?
    • ddunkin 13y ago
      Technical reasons? There are none. This is customer/sales driven, normal (non-technical and the majority) customers don't want to bother with technical bandwidth/transfer non-sense.
• wmf 13y ago
  "Real" bandwidth that you're allowed to saturate costs an ISP about $1/Mbps/month, and that's not counting the cost of building the ISP's network itself which is probably much higher. Today's $50 broadband service is maybe backed by 1 Mbps of real bandwidth if you're lucky, but changing the advertising from "up to 15 Mbps" to "1 Mbps guaranteed" is commercial suicide.
  • diminoten 13y ago
    Is this true of Google fiber? Probably not, and that's the whole point.
    • wmf 13y ago
      I would bet that almost all of the cost of Google Fiber is in the last mile; OTOH Google can probably buy bandwidth very cheap. It's probably still oversubscribed 100:1 or more.
      • diminoten 13y ago
        > It's probably still oversubscribed 100:1 or more. [citation needed]
        • wmf 13y ago
          If you want to believe that Google built a multi-terabit network that's 99% idle, go ahead.