Get ready for a crackdown on broadband use

Enderle believes that, when given the option of raising bandwidth capacity versus raising monthly broadband fees, ISPs will choose the latter every time. Earlier this month, AT&T raised the price of some of its monthly DSL broadband data service plans by $5.
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A whole $5? And the americans will probably still complain...
 
would be interesting to know what their average cap is
 
And these ISPs cry and whine while in other countries they steam ahead with Gbit fiber (in fact old news already) etc. Invest your profits in upgrading the infrastructure.
 
news servers

Forgive give me if im wrong, but what do news servers do.
 
wtfwasinternetcreatedfor!?

Man, Americans are lame....
 
I wonder what the definition of a "high bandwidth user" is.
30Gb/m
60GB/m
100GB/m
?
 
Pity SA will not be in the same boat for a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long time to come.
 
....like perfectly designed robots that are programmed to eat as much as they can at an all-you-can-eat buffet

Thought for a moment this was referring to Telkom management,ICASA,Poison Ivy and the DOC .....:rolleyes:
 
Saule said:
Pity SA will not be in the same boat for a very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very very long time to come.
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:D:D:D
 
Bit of a wordy article warning that Demand may outstrip Supply in which case prices need to be hiked.
Like Eskom. :D
 
quick question. that part about port shaping etc. where they need to look at a packet to identify what type of content that is. couldnt a case be made in SA that the big T is violating our constitutional right to privacy by doing that??? just a thought on another way to make their lives a tad more difficult. just imagine if the const court orders that shaping is a violation lmao T wont know wtf to do.
 
including movie downloads
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It's cheaper to buy the disc than it is to download it. I can't believe that this guy thinks South Africans download movies. Is he talking about feature films that have been released on home video?
 
I think Telkom is going to kick themselves when the cables start landing in SA.Their whole premise of pay-per-gig will mean people will buy just enough and if prices truely come down as much as its looks like, then they won't be getting much for it. I think the 'rental' portion will suddenly be the expensive bit hahaha and with model and sliding scale that can't go up :P
 
i can easily go over 200-300 gigs a month just with open source and downloading games off steam and other games services this is lame, i hope the people that said this dig a hole amd die :D :D :D

i think this is only against the people that do a few tb a month i now quite a few people that can dl and upload over more then 2 tb a week
look here http://mybroadband.co.za/photos/showphoto.php?photo=1146&size=big&cat=&ppuser=9724
 
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@friedpiggy. As far as Im aware ISPs dont have to look in the packet at all, they make policies (and therefore bandwidth shaping) based on what ports the traffic uses and that is explicit. eg Mail ports 110 and 25, web port 80 etc etc see /etc/services for a full list on a unix box.
 
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