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Originally Posted by ianathuth
I don't know how NitroNutter gets the idea that internet connection is taking up a larger percentage of income than it used to. You should have seen my phone bills some 10 to 15 years ago.
The one thing that many people forget about speed increases is the obvious fact that it cuts down the time needed to transfer data. Most users will only do the same things that they are now doing when they get increased speeds so will only have the possibility of affecting others usage for a shorter length of time. Increasing speeds can have the effect of reducing congestionif users only do the same as they used to do and do not try to max out their connections. Maybe heavy 24/7 downloaders should all be put on the same UBR channel away from everyone else so they largely only affect each other.
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I remember buying a pc within the last 15 years, that had a 'penny a minute' rate, dialup connection, after 6pm, that was considered to be fairly competitive - working out an hour a day, (60p), for a month (60p times 365 divide by 12) = £18.25 per month.
Then work out the cost for the data transfer, (assuming 5KB/s) 1 minute = 60 times 5 = 300KB/penny
so £18.25 would buy 5475500KB - about 1/2 a gig, a month
- I liked the idea that the people who want to download the whole internet, at least twice, every night, should have their own 'channel' - nice one
