"Nadav Har'El" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > What's strange about these stories is that they appear to complain > about usages which don't appear extreme at all. 20 GB for 3 months > is just 2.5 KB/s (20 kbps), an amount that even a modem user could > use (say, connected 8 hours a day). If you're not even allowed to > constantly use 20 kbps, what's the point in selling you a 1500 kbps > connection? If you use the full speed of your connection for just 19 > minutes a day, you'll reach 20 GB after 3 months.
The point is that they don't count on you to use the full bandwidth apart from maybe very short bursts. 9GB/mo that Netta reported if used evenly on a day-on-day basis works out to about 300MB/day. If their "typical household customer" spends maybe an hour or two a day on line, mainly emailing and browsing, and only occasionally downloading a few songs or a movie, such a customer will not reach 300MB/day. > And when you consider that downloading a new Linux distribution takes up > about 4 GB, that maintaining your system upgraded often requires a further > 100 MB a week (hey, Fedora, stop updating huge packages like X, KDE, > etc.!), RedHat release a new sewt of CDs what, twice a year? And the updates, even if they are 300MB a week, will not reach 300MB/day. I am not arguing that 300MB/day is excessive (I don't recall any caps on download volume on top of the bandwidth allocation). I am just saying it is more than what they base their cost/profit calculations on. -- Oleg Goldshmidt | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.goldshmidt.org ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
