Yeah, though both DSL and Cablemodems can handle T1 speeds (up and down), you pay ALOT less because:
1) Service providers want you to use this for casual home use. This means Burstable bandwidth and not sustained. To limit you, they would prefer that your family is the only user of the service, so they limit upload speeds so that you will be discourages from running a server. I think those wireless folks have set a monthly transfer limit because their total shared bandwidth it alot more limited than DSL or cable modem users. 2) DSL and cablemodems are not nearly as reliable as a T1. -matt On Fri, 25 Jul 2003, Harshwardhan Nagaonkar wrote: > Corey Edwards wrote: > > 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. > > Ah. Now I understand better. Thank you for clearing that up. > > > >>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 > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > I wish about these things too :) > > Corey > > > -- > Harshwardhan Nagaonkar > Electrical Engineering Sysop > Brigham Young University, UT-84602 > > > ____________________ > BYU Unix Users Group > http://uug.byu.edu/ > ___________________________________________________________________ > List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list > ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
