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Your house probably has a 100A main line, at 110V, that's 11kw. Do you use 7920KWh per month? No? The power companies are only selling the illusion of electr
by jpollock 13y ago
Your house probably has a 100A main line, at 110V, that's 11kw. Do you use 7920KWh per month? No?
The power companies are only selling the illusion of electricity!
- jackinloadup 13y agoThough with the power company at least you can buy more electricity. With my cable and DSL providers in my area going over is not an option. There are no plans above 350Gb. Going over starts insane overage charges. My relatives just moved into the area and were faced with a $900 bill with overages b/c they used 950Gb of data. Thanks FCC I didn't want competition anyway.
- wmf 13y agoISPs have kind of painted themselves into a corner with flat rate pricing sold on the basis of peak bandwidth. They can't afford to let people saturate their connections, but any change to the pricing (like caps) makes customers feel like they're getting less for their money.
- supergauntlet 13y agoI wish we all had unlimited lines and paid by the gigabyte. It would honestly probably be cheaper for most people and makes more sense as at the network levels everyone pays by bandwidth consumed anyways.
- DerpDerpDerp 13y agoI mean, that last statement is true in the areas with brown-outs because the electricity companies haven't provisioned enough generating capacity to handle the load. No one would be complaining if Comcast had a 5TB/mo limit on 100Mbit lines. The problem is that Comcast (and many other ISPs) haven't actually build networks that can supply internet at the levels people want, and they charge overly high rates for services which can't provide what people are told they can.
- mindslight 13y agoThe difference is that electricity storage is inefficient. Also, it's generally 240V split-phase.