[darkmage46]

the main thing with all these arguments are that thi or that contravenes the AUP or that this behaviour isn't typical residential user behaviour. Typical use is changing 10 years ago when all that was out there was dial up BBS's a 2800 baud modem was ok and why would you want faster, if you did get your wallet out. Now wit streaming audio and video, huge game demo downloads, P2P, video messaging, voice over internet telephone and all the rest is usage going to go down? nope. wether the net is used for leagal or illegal purposes( and im thinking music and software, nothing more nefarious than that) the internet is going to become a more and more used medium, cable companies should get used to that and realise that any cap is just a stopgap measure to give breathing room. In 10 years time a 3 gig a month cap would be insane on your home 500gig connection and it will still take all day to DL the latest game demo so we'll have a cap of about 3 hours constant full speed use and we'll all still argue about it. If the cable co`s woke up and sacked the bright sparks that think caps have any real purpose and took a more forwards thinking approach like lets create a broadband service that only 1% of our customers can max out and they have to really try to do that then we might be moving forwards at the same pace as the technology thats sat on the desks infront of us