On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 08:51, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > Just as a sidenote though, shouldn't ISPs NOT charge for transfer size. > They only pay for the bandwidth, so why should they decide how many GBs > I like to use? I think its just wrong to set limits. Ofcourse, they > probably do it for 2 reasons IMHO, > 1. To discourage people from filesharing and the like. > 2. To Make More Money (tm) :)
Despite rumors to the contrary, not all corporations take business classes from the RIAA. Some are just trying to offer a decent service, make a profit, and keep prices low for customers. ISPs don't really buy enough upstream bandwidth for everyone to use their full link capacity non-stop. Be grateful. Your prices would skyrocket. They estimate total usage based on assumptions about individual customer usage. All the monthly transfer limit is doing is telling the customer what those assumptions are. > What If I wanted to download the Debian Woody ISOs. What if I liked > America's Army for Linux as well as Windows, they weigh in at about > 800MB each. If I play online, I'll run up the limit too. If I listen to > kbyu FM online, I'll run out again. Then find a different ISP. Or get your own OC-3. I guarantee it will not be $41.95 a month. Corey ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
