So explain why there is a limit...
You see grouter - my view as follows
I had internet in the days that 64k isdn was the thing to have. Counterstrike 1.6 and fragging was in the order of the day. Those days there was very little streaming options besided p2p like edonkey, etc.
Then came 128k isdn - you had to be rich to afford
Then came adsl - 512mbps was obout a grand if memory serves me. Sigh... the age, I forget.
Now This all said and done, line speeds increasing by the year, more affordable pricing becoming a reality, more people like you and me jumped on the band wagon and became superstars and the envy of all gamers with a 10ms ping. We kicked the doomers, we head butted the cs players to oblivion, we ruled man.. YEEHAA.
THEN
This in affect introduced more happy go lucky people like us to p2p and leaching, etc. This in affect meant that more people used more data. This resulted in many people congesting servers to the point it became barely useable.
This in effect gave some prominent ISP's a bad name DUE to the leachers and downloaders.
This resulted in all these clever and very wealthy investors coming together in constructing a bussiness plan to protech not only their investment, but normal users like you and me from these leachers who in certain aspects became known as abusers.
This ultimately braught into affect the horrible AUP to which we are all subjected to due to certain users behaving badly.
When these were introduced the poor salesmen/ladies who sold the product did not undertand it properly, nor was it brough forward properly. Management did not show careful though or good judgement and learned the hard way.
Many poeple objected to this rule, calling it false advertising, but it stayed. This all done to protect not only themselves, but you and me.
I think they meant well, and still do, but reality is that you pay what you get for.
Things in South Africa are still very expensive - data costs at cell companies for instance, internet cost compared to 1st world countries is a lot more... Just go and do some googling.
Bottom line - Don't only blame the ISP - look at where it came from. The abusers are also at fualt (The ones complaining most) - There are some people on this forum claiming they d-load hundreds of gigs each month. Some for business, and some for pleasure, some simply cause they can. That type of user could and I repeat---- COULD be at fualt.
Some form of controle has to be adhered to.
I don't agree with it (the AUP that is), but I do understand and wish more would see it that way.
Just my 2cents, don't crusify me, just a viewpoint.
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