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Originally Posted by Salu
I don't mind having a cap in principle. It's just that those that are imposing caps seem to impose caps that almost defeat the point of broadband.
A bit like having a helicopter but not being allowed to fly it above 100m or more than a mile. Or like having a porche with a petrol tank that only holds a pint of petrol. Or like having a TV that only allows you to change channel once every night.
The restrictions are silly.
The reason for restrictions I sort of understand. If there is a group of "abusers" that spend all day, every day downloading P2P music/warez and that has an effect on the provision of services to others then they should either pay a premium or be capped. The problem is the cap being so small. A 5GB cap can easily be used up. Downloading a couple of game demos would soon eat up a lot of your cap. The last thing you want to be doing it counting the pennies/watching the meter as you surf. It has a "bad" feel-good factor.
I went to a resturant the other day. It was a set price for a 3 course meal with a £2.50 charge for coffee/tea afterwards. I appreciate that not everyone would want coffee after a meal but it "felt" annoying. The cost of the coffee would be next to nothing.....couldn't they just include it in the price....or even add a £1 to the cost of the meal?
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The problem is that the broadband market has got so stupidly competatively priced, it is not possible to continue to offer un-metered services like previously. It will not be long before all ISPs (ADSL and cable modem) have capped only service, BT have been talking about it for some time.
There is companies which are making litterally pennies each month per user because they are selling it so cheap. If they get users downloading 100s of GB each month it will force them to go out of business.
I agree with what you are saying in principal but in practice it is not sustainable to offer un-metered broadband. The main reason being those few selfish users to clock up 10-20gb of data as well as uploading huge amounts (p2p users). It is something stupid like 3% of an isps users account for 90% of data transfered.