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Rogers Cable Plans Fees to Curb Bandwith Hogs
jeremyd writes: "Major Canadian broadband provider plans to charge heavy users higher monthly access fees as high as $80 per month. Read the article here from the Globe and Mail. If only the world would protest. What's the point of high speed broadband access if you can't use it to full potential without having to start selling organs to pay the bills?"
I don't know what exactly does the high-speed Internet service mean, but I'd love to pay $80/month for what I consider a high-speed link. I live in Poland where I pay about $450/month for 768kb/s DSL... And it's not even a guaranteed bandwidth.
~shiny
WILL HACK FOR $$$
Or, they could do the right thing, and just reprogram their routers to dynamically bandwidth-limit the 'hogs' whenever there is bandwidth contention. Doing this would avoid pissing off their customers, save them lots of time and money that would have otherwise been spent harrassing their clientele, and solve the hogging problem.
... but oh yeah, they're a cable company. They couldn't come up with a technical solution if you wrapped it around a gold brick and beat them with it.
I don't care if it's 90,000 hectares. That lake was not my doing.
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Why everybody here seems to be so opposed
to diversification in fees based on used
resources?
The bandwidth is not a unlimited resource.
Wow, was that an intentional Haiku? It was perfect!
Uhh, yeah, to stay on topic, I say give the people unlimited bandwidth!
Yeah, and what's the point in drinking beer unless you chug the whole keg? And why do they charge more for the keg than for a single bottle? They should charge one price for drinking beer, no matter how much I drink...