It's relatively simple. Most high speed services are shared, such as xDSL, etc. We rolled out DSL 'net access before USWest did here in Arizona and it's been quite a learning experience. We didn't care if you were a business or a regular customer, you got DSL for the same price. As time went by however, we had business hosting 50-150 web sites of their DSL line for $24.95/mo, and thus literally trashing our DSL network and making the DSL experience for regular home users *SUCK*.
I can see why cable co's are capping uploads too (here in Phoenix all Cox@home customers have recently been capped at 128kbps uploads (i believe)). If someone runs a server, it's very likely it's going to be actively pushing a LOT of data a LOT of the time. A casual user who's downloading a lot of stuff will not be pumping huge amounts ALL of the time =)
Basically what it comes down to is power-users sometimes get screwed. But you can't rely on 'power-users' for revenue. There's too many regular joe's that use the service without saturating it.
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It's relatively simple. Most high speed services are shared, such as xDSL, etc. We rolled out DSL 'net access before USWest did here in Arizona and it's been quite a learning experience. We didn't care if you were a business or a regular customer, you got DSL for the same price. As time went by however, we had business hosting 50-150 web sites of their DSL line for $24.95/mo, and thus literally trashing our DSL network and making the DSL experience for regular home users *SUCK*.
I can see why cable co's are capping uploads too (here in Phoenix all Cox@home customers have recently been capped at 128kbps uploads (i believe)). If someone runs a server, it's very likely it's going to be actively pushing a LOT of data a LOT of the time. A casual user who's downloading a lot of stuff will not be pumping huge amounts ALL of the time =)
Basically what it comes down to is power-users sometimes get screwed. But you can't rely on 'power-users' for revenue. There's too many regular joe's that use the service without saturating it.