AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! The end is fucking near!
Okay, in all truth I could PROBABLY live with Comcast's supposed 250gb per month if I had to. I would switch to a less restrictive provider in a heartbeat...even if their speeds were slower. But 5gb a month is insane! Charging per byte is even worse.
Why should you care about this? Most of you have no clue just how much bandwidth you use every month, mainly because you've never had to care. This should give you some perspective.
5gb = approx. 170mb of traffic/day. And I'm assuming that is total upload + download.
You could do ONE of the following things each day of the month:
- You could watch 1 hour of standard 480p video (divx, quicktime, etc.) streamed or downloaded.
- You could buy and download 3-4 albums of music from iTunes (medium quality)
- You could upload (or download) 300-400 high resolution pictures to/from your Flickr account.
I still feel the only reason for these restrictions is to price people off of the Internet. Your ISP doesn't want to make a hefty investment to increase their network's capacity to handle the increased traffic of the now media-rich Internet. If these restrictions become popular it will end up slowing or killing the growth of the Internet or it will shift all of the innovation to other countries like South Korea and Europe.
This is because secretly your ISP, whether it is a Cable or "Phone" company, doesn't want you to access the actual "Internet". Why would the phone company want you to have access to Vonage? Why would your cable company want you to have access to NetFlix or iTunes to download high quality video? This is the beginning of a new regression back to AOL's old "walled garden" idea where your ISP gives you cheap, easy access to "their" data but makes you pay extra to get to the real Internet.
Just wait.
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