Comments on: Which ISPs are capping your broadband, and why?

By: Robert Jacobson

Robert Jacobson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:59:05 +0000

I live and work in Sweden half my time. There, carriers and ISPs offer transmission, plain and simple. The cost for a 28 Mbit/sec download service, NO DATA CAPS, is about $40/month. A flat rate. This is standard. The Swedish providers have just as many challenges to meet in terms of distance and distributed as do American providers. What they don’t have are (a) monopolies and (b) their own content to protect. It’s a travesty that we still have communications monopolies and duopolies in a country that prides itself on free speech and a supposedly democratic media. If the FCC won’t weigh in, then state regulators should — or perhaps the content providers will bring action in the courts once things get bad enough for them. This would make a great case for the Supreme Court, on the one hand absolute in its devotion to the Bill of Rights, on the other a staunch protector of corporate privilege even to the point of flouting the spirit of our laws.

By: Robert Jacobson

Robert Jacobson — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 20:49:49 +0000

Yes, imposing data caps rather than cutting data-transfer speeds are rather like drinking arsenic rather than bug poison: they’re easier to conceal.

The result — dampening user demand and thus retarding the market for innovations — is the same. And Google has nothing to do with it. Pure red herring.

By: Mr. Nas

Mr. Nas — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 13:48:35 +0000

That’s the main reason I didn’t switch to U-Verse. I had it all set up and canceled a few days before they came out for the install. I won’t go with an ISP that has a cap. S ofor better or worse right now, I’m sticking with Time Warner with my paltry 30 down 2 Up ;o)

@Billy Bob you should definitely look into getting a VPN service such as BT Guard if you’re a torrent regular. ISPs will throttle you as sson as they see torrent traffic, doesn’t matter what you’re downloading. Better to mask it using a service that doesn’t keep logs.

By: ingridkastfuller

ingridkastfuller — Thu, 18 Oct 2012 16:04:16 +0000

“…despite the decreasing costs to send traffic over the network? ”
I’m an ISP and I have not seen decreasing costs but increasing costs. Every year bandwidth costs are increasing not decreasing. Perhaps the larger firms get more breaks than I do, but they also carry a lot of overhead, people, infrastructure than I do. I do believe cable and TV costs way too much. The whole problem lies in competition and monopolies. Competition is what brings the cost down for the consumer. We need to encourage new businesses in the industry to compete and drive the costs down.

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:59:18 +0000

hi there in comcast serivice price increase do you know comcast speed increase from 50 mb/s too 150 mb/s data download speed the increase speed means more fiber optics

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:55:07 +0000

they need more band with

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:54:04 +0000

hi there yeah we have charter at our bussniess shop and comcast at hour house

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:52:07 +0000

wow 200 megabytes per month 6 gegabytes per year is way too low we need 6 terabyte data cap for like $60 per month

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:47:30 +0000

hi there yes 25% at 2.16 gb/s

By: james braselton

james braselton — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 19:41:02 +0000

yes bacuase i am a master chief spartan 117 conected 24/7 internet i am from the future soo we reqier lots of technolgy faster then light speed comonications faster then light speed read write speeds