Comcast will charge excessive downloaders.
It is to begin rolling out a system where those who download more than their monthly allowance will have to pay a fee. Comcast raised its download limit to 300GB after previously setting it at 250GB. Those who download 50GB more than their limit will automatically be charged an extra $10 on top of their monthly bill.
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I'm not with Comcast, but if my ISP were to indoctrinate such a plan there might be a few months in there where I could be screwed. Maybe once all the kids get gone things might be different, but till then it could be shaky.
GOOD! 300 gigs is plenty for anyone. And that's with streaming video everyday and many many illicit downloads so anyone slamming ISPs for doing this (though I truly HATE Comcast) and lumping this with "net neutrality" should STFU! Those exceeding this amount are clearly leeching pirates that likely never give back to society and simply drain from it.
Net neutrality is about content and access............NOTHING about 'net neutrality' addresses speed of your connection or caps/limits so PIPE DOWN to anyone using this.
Defined by Wikipedia's first paragraph:
"Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the internet. Specifically, network neutrality would prevent restrictions on content, sites, platforms, types of equipment that may be attached, and modes of communication."
You do realize you undermined your own rant by quoting Wikipedia within their opening dialog, right?
Much more behavior like this & people are going to start quoting you as a source for 'contradiction' & 'antonym'...
Originally posted by hearme0: "Network neutrality (also net neutrality, Internet neutrality) is a principle that advocates no restrictions by Internet service providers or governments on consumers' access to networks that participate in the internet. Specifically, network neutrality would prevent restrictions on content, sites, platforms, types of equipment that may be attached, and modes of communication."
And unless you have a version of Shirley Mason running around in your head, no one in this particular forum mentioned anything about download rate. Yet "a principle that advocates no RESTRICTIONS" is still implied to caps & limits (sans technological limitations to DL rates); it's more than implied.
So, if you have to be one of those 'individuals' that needs to have his rules so stringently written in order to conform, you'd better hope to your favorite deity you never get assigned to my platoon.
