I'm in Quebec and both major providers (Bell for ADSL and Videotron for cable) have created new "extreme" plans.
Videotron's gives you 4mbit downstream and 640k upstream, with a cap of 10 gigs per month for each direction. All that for a hefty 60$.
Bell has a similar plan, working at 3mbit / 640k, same caps, although they end up charging 70$ per month or so.
These plans are the result of the previous "caps" of 6 gigs / 1 gig which P2P downloaders were going over by orders of magnitude and were paying through the nose. One of my friend ended up paying 215$ for a single month because his upload/download were at 20 gigs each.
I guess these caps and prices may end up moderating file sharing.
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I'm in Quebec and both major providers (Bell for ADSL and Videotron for cable) have created new "extreme" plans.
Videotron's gives you 4mbit downstream and 640k upstream, with a cap of 10 gigs per month for each direction. All that for a hefty 60$. Bell has a similar plan, working at 3mbit / 640k, same caps, although they end up charging 70$ per month or so.
These plans are the result of the previous "caps" of 6 gigs / 1 gig which P2P downloaders were going over by orders of magnitude and were paying through the nose. One of my friend ended up paying 215$ for a single month because his upload/download were at 20 gigs each.
I guess these caps and prices may end up moderating file sharing.