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I dunno... when I stream movies to my TV I have plenty of bandwidth to stream videos to my computer at the same time. And that would be at about the same time Netflix users are streaming their own videos. So, maybe you're trying to access servers that are already near capacity.
ISP's generally supply a certain bandwidth, and other customers' usage doesn't really affect that. Paying per megabyte is an incredible annoyance and one I would hope to avoid. If your internet seems slower than normal, you could be infected with a virus or maybe someone's tapping into your wifi.
If one guy is filling up the pool in his backyard and another has filled up his bathtub the guy using the bathtub doesn't pay the costs associted with filling the pool. Why would anyone think it makes sense that someone using a large amount of bandwidth shouldn't pay for it just like the guy filling up his pool?
Ford doesn't charge me because I drive their car more often, and use more gas.
Why should netflix charge me for the extra bandwidth I'm using?
The Free market will work, and if you are using a cable, wireless, or DSL connection, the charges for more and more data will increase there, not from Netflix.
If comcast has a problem with me streaming so much video, then they'll adjust their cost structure accordingly.
No. Greedy ISPs should invest more $$ into infrastructure...you know...lay more pipe. But suggesting such an atrocity is bad bad bad bad right?
MAYBE you should learn more about what it is your talking about. ISP's aren't the internet, they are companies that provide you the USER, an offramp to the highway.
They can't do sqaut of the highway is congested, or are you suggesting that building more on ramps and off ramps will make it better? bwaaahahahahahaha
As for infrastructure? Most people haven't a clue what infrastructure is required, or in fact utilized. MANY ISP's have infrastructure not even hitting 50% usage.
Bandwidth caps are in place primarily to ensure that all people have equal usage capability. Want more, buy more.
MAYBE you should learn more about what it is your talking about. ISP's aren't the internet, they are companies that provide you the USER, an offramp to the highway.
They can't do sqaut of the highway is congested, or are you suggesting that building more on ramps and off ramps will make it better? bwaaahahahahahaha
As for infrastructure? Most people haven't a clue what infrastructure is required, or in fact utilized. MANY ISP's have infrastructure not even hitting 50% usage.
Bandwidth caps are in place primarily to ensure that all people have equal usage capability. Want more, buy more.
ISP's have no reason to do bandwidth caps because their own network bandwidth is not capped. A isp pays for 1 super fast internet connection which is shared to millions of consumers. If you research which ISP, your ISP uses, the prices are often very high for a connection capable of handling supplying bandwidth to consumers, often prices ranging up to $100 thousand dollars + to even a million dollars depending on how many pairs of connections you add to handle the consumers. But if you have a few hundred thousand to a few million subscribers to your service and you charge each of them like $60 to $100 each month, you can easily cover your bandwidth cost.
When I checked the companies that provide bandwidth to verizon and comcast and other companies like this none of them cap your bandwidth. They simply offer you a set network speed eg, OC-48 - OC-255 connection with unlimited bandwidth, the problem with these ISP's is that they oversell their service. If you take this to a small scale, for example suppose you are starting your own ISP and you buy your self a 100mbit connection for about $300 a month, then you get 20 people to sign up for your service and you offer each 5mbit/s upload and download for $ 30 per month. you will now be getting $600 a month from your customers.
But suppose 20 more people wanted to sign up. you can add an extra 100mbit line and charge them $30 a month but no because you are a evil ISP ceo and your solution is to add them to the current 100mbit line and you are now selling bandwidth you don't have. the good thing for you about this is when you sell bandwidth that you don't have, you get 100% profit from it. So now you have 40 people on your 100mbit connection and each of them are paying $30 a month for a 5mbit connection but then they notice something, in the afternoon, their internet is very slow because there is not enough bandwidth to go around.
A not so evil isp will fix this by adding a extra line or at least a extra 50mbit connection but this will cost them more money. The evil current ISP's will simply throttle traffic so your customers are paying for a 5mbit connection but there only able to use 1mbit of it for web browsing and downloading but can use all 5mbit/s of the bandwidth when sending unencrypted PDF files directly to another IP address.
(this is what ISP's today do, they throttle bandwidth intensive traffic and leave low bandwidth traffic alone. This allows them to sell you a high speed connection but offer you like 10% of the speed you are paying for all of the things you normally do on line and only allow your full bandwidth when doing something like sending a email or something else that doesn't need that speed)
So now you are throttling and because this now freed up some bandwidth, you add 40 more customers to your service. Now customers are again complaining about having dialup speeds on their 5mbit connection. so your solution now because you are a evil ISP ceo, you start bandwidth caps now all customers are limited to 5GB of bandwidth per month and this us upload and download combined and since a TCP connection is a 3 way handshake connection, you cant send or recieve data with out sending, TCP connections must send ACK SYN FIN RST packets to maintain a connection you download a 100MB file and you use about 120MB of bandwidth because of this bandwidth cap, your subscribers will be too scared to stream tv shows and movies online so they now use their connection for checking email and reading news articles and stuff for school work.
This has now freed up more bandwidth and you can add more customers. This is what ISP's do just on a larger scale in order to maximize profits. If they design their network around not overselling then they will only make like 40-50% profit (when googling, on a very large scale like with comcast or verizon, it only cost them about 2-3 dollars a month to provide you with a 50mbit connection because of how large their network is and the bandwidth packages that take out) ISP's love to oversell because it is more profitable.
think of it like owning a pizza shop that charges $10 for a large pizza, but you only have 1 large pizza available in your shot and 5 people order the large pizza. so what you do, you take $10 from each of them and offer them a thin slice of pizza instead of the entire pizza. so for the production cost of 1 pizza, you get 5 purchases, the first initial purchase of the pizza gives you a 60% profit and the 4 additional purchases are 100% profit, this is what a ISP does to increase profit.
They do this because there is generally little to no competition, in most parts of the country, it is like this you either get comcast or dialup or you move somewhere else and it is either verizon or dialup or you move somewhere else and it is either time warner or dialup for almost everyone, dialup is not enough so it is not a option, so the ISP in your area has nothing to compete with so they have no reason to offer you good service.
Poor government control has allowed ISP's for the most part to be very anti-competitive and this hurts the consumers.
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