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Originally Posted by jtwn
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An analogy I've seen on this forum many times is "its like telling customers subscribing to cable TV that they are aloowed to only watch x number of hours a day". Cable TV uses the same infrastructure and the same cabling yet people dont get a "usage allowance" on that.
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Whilst by all means I am not for caps, there is a difference where your CATV is fed from headend from within their own network, whereas on the internet your request can be to anywhere, ie ntl having to pay for peering. |
Cable TV is broadcast and uses the same bandwidth whether nobody is watching the channel or every single customer is tuned into it. With the internet every user is doing something different to all the other users and there is simply not enough bandwidth for them all to be using their full speed 24/7.