RoadRunner capping bandwidth come July

[Gurm]

Don't worry, they will.

As soon as Joe and Jane average realize that little Timmy's KaZaA habit is costing them $100+ a month, they'll switch to unlimited.

This happened a while back too, when everyone jumped to 56k... and the unlimited plans were all $20/mo. while the limited ones were $10/mo.

Eventually everyone had to uncap.

- Gurm

[Paulr]

However it then went full-circle.
At least here in the UK there are now very few dial-up flat-rate ISP's that don't impose a "reasonable useage" policy or a fixed number of hours you can be online per month.
Bandwidth is expensive.
Take hosting a website for example, there are plenty of deals to be had out there however you want a deal that offers a lot of bandwidth every month it costs.
"Unlimited" does not exist in the hosting world, they too impose a "reasonable useage" policy and many an "unlimited" host has terminated a contract because too much bandwidth was used.

ISP's will realise that bandwidth will have to eventually be limited.
It starts with a few ISP's and then extends from there.
At the moment those suddenly finding themselves under a cap can jump ship, then jump again and again.
Eventually you find there are no more ships to jump to or those few ISP's that have decided not to impose a cap are running above capacity and performance is hit.
Against popular belief bandwidth is not free.

[Nowhere]

This reminds me about offer that became very popular lately in my city (and it's just absurd).
To the few options (namely: 56k dialup (for almost 20€ per 40 hours a month I think, and above 40 it's like 0,8€/h in the night and weekend and in weekdays two times that), 115k (permanent connection for over 30€/month - rather unavailable now (because telecom offers something that's similiar - it would be inner competition: 256k down/64 up for 45€, and also some more ridiculously priced 512, 1024 and more variants - but it's still unavailable in smaller towns I think)) - something that I use and of course ISDN (practically only for bunch of telecom employees - this offer is initially ridiculosly (again) expensive (athough later costs the same as normal line), but there was a promotion almost two years ago - change your analog line to ISDN for practically no cost - guess who used that option month before it was widely known - anyway the costs are the same as 56k)) joined a new one - sort of residential districts network (but it begun to cover not only residential districts lately).
Hold you breath now: it's using 2mbit/s connection. That's right, 20 times faster than mine private connection for network in which there can be hundreds of users now I think.
And from 8 AM to 22 PM there's a limit - 30 megabytes per day - at least thanks to this it's not so slow then (something like mine). BUT - practically only www, mail, irc (though ONLY their server) and IM.

The best part is that it's becoming popular (10 € per month)
So stop complaining, you're in like heaven .

Perhaps EU will bring here some real competition.

[Gurm]

Of course you're discussing the UK here, PaulR. These are the people that STILL don't have unlimited local calling, and never HAVE had unlimited dialup...

- Gurm

[GNEP]

Yes we have had unlimited dialup on 0800 numbers. My mother uses it on the farm, way beyond the reach of ADSL...

[The PIT]

More and more companies here are going to capping then usage on dialup anyway. I expect broadband will go the same way.

[GNEP]

It would be ridiculous to cap the usage on my mum's dialup - because the lines aren't great the best connection speed is about 28.8... so the company would be like "you can only have 1Mb a day..."

[thop]

1500/256 for 25€ per month, unlimited.

[Nowhere]

1500/256 for 25€ - and all this so close.

Oh well, hopefully this'll come here over time.
It'll be about time to scrap 115/115 (70/70 when phone's in use - but effectively many things stop) for more per month.

[Novdid]

Originally posted by Technoid
My provider recently anounced a new service for its ADSL customers: 2mb/s but limited to 10bg per month
that means you are limited to 333mb/day
and then they charge 0,025skr per gb (1$us aprox 7-8skr)
There are already competitors that offers no bandwith cap

Which provider? Bostream? Telia?

I hear that Spray ADSL is the best ADSL you can get, they use Telias lines (All ADSL providers do) but prices are lower as well as they don't have a DL limit.

[Zao]

I'll finally get 10mbit this fall when I go to Uni, the sad thing is that they will begin to cap it in July.
The cap will be at a measly 9GB / month on external traffic and a 20GB cap on LAN traffic.

*Sigh*, I will fill that quota in a few days.

[Technoid]

Originally posted by Novdid
Which provider? Bostream? Telia?

I hear that Spray ADSL is the best ADSL you can get, they use Telias lines (All ADSL providers do) but prices are lower as well as they don't have a DL limit.

Telia is ofcoarse the ones with limits and charges

most of the others have much better terms

Telia will still reap the most of the profits because they own almost 95% of the acces net

[Novdid]

True, indeed...

[Evildead666]

Hmm, it seems its pretty expensive here then...
45euro/month
512/128 unlimited (for the moment...)
for 1024 - its simple, its double. 90euro.
the only way to get higher is thru cable TV networks, or to be a company.

[Gurm]

EvilDead:

What's wrong with Cable?

I'm using it now, very nice indeed it is.

- Gurm