Reason number 149 I wo n’t move to Texas : Time Warner confirmed it ’ll be testing a new pricing programme in Beaumont that ’s based on how much bandwidth you run through up . That ’s right , hard cap . Totally made - up example , since they have n’t released detail on the package tiers : Pay $ 50 a calendar month for 500 fishgig , and if you consume more , get slapped with in all probability obscene overage fees .
Supposedly , ingestion - based billing is aimed at all you assholes download movies from BitTorrent—”heavy user of with child downloads , ” the purported 5 percent that swallows “ up to 50 per centum of connection capacity ” in rescript to ameliorate connection public presentation . But this is , at least partially , BS .
Everybody is using more bandwidth than ever , and that is function to continue ramping up with services like Netflix and iTunes that keep pushing these “ big downloads ” into the mainstream . So , it might only hit a small per centum of substance abuser really heavily mighty now , but soon enough it ’ll be hitting everybody , which is the genuine point .
At the same sentence , ISPs and telephone service are lobbying hard against meshwork disinterest , largely so they can slap the mental object providers themselves with high costs for adequate priority on the internet with the ISP ’s own avail . In other words , they ’re reaching into the cooky jolt with both hands — from the top , and a hole they ’re assay to cut into the bottom .
For now , Time Warner ’s design will only affect raw users starting sometime in the next duet of months , and they in reality give you putz to monitor your data diet , but if there is n’t a total insurrection and pillage of their home office , expect them to drift it out nationally and other providers to follow suit . [ AP / Wired ]
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