Internet bandwidth hogs may soon pay for it

[audiofreak]

Evo jedne nemile vesti od pre dve-tri nedelje koja nam je promakla:

Consumers watching their cell phone minutes may soon have something else to worry about: their Internet usage. Time Warner Cable and other Internet providers are adding fees if customers exceed a set amount of bandwidth each month. User complaints are already starting to roll in.

Time Warner plans to expand the reach of consumption-based billing, where consumers pay for a set amount of monthly bandwidth and then pay additional fees depending on the amount of additional data use. The policy covers everything from e-mail usage to downloading videos.

The policy, which was tested last year in Beaumont, Texas, will be expanded this summer and fall to Austin, San Antonio and other Texas cities, as well as Rochester, N.Y., and Greensboro, N.C.

Time Warner isn't the only Internet provider to move in this direction. AT&T is conducting its own tests of tiered billing, and Comcast already sets a limit on how much data its residential customers can download each month

Druga losa vest:

A related internet freedom impediment, covered in other ATC and TOTN segments, is the attempt to rate content suppliers – perhaps by the depth of their pocket; perhaps by their political correctness; perhaps by non-cash business connections – and throttle their net access accordingly. Thus Time-Warner’s servers might be able to send to the “backbone" at 150Gb/s, Amazon and eBay at 10Gb/s, while NPR for example might only be able to send at 100Mb/s.

 

[FantomX]

Kod njih pochinje ono shto je kod nas ostavljeno u samom startu, bespotrebni paketi gde se ogranichava protok prenetih podataka koji je totalno besmislen. Internet je postao dovoljno jeftin da nema razloga uzimati ovkave pakete.
Ono shto zabrinjava po ovoj prichi je to shto ce izgleda i nazovi "flat" pakete krenuti da ogranichavaju sa protokom, a onda iste te nekada flat pakete prodavati po bezobrazno visokim cenama.... Sve naopako, da chovek ne poveruje. :S:

 

[Wiz]

Mi smo pričali ranije o tome... Ljudi koji znaju stanje kažu da je u USA praktično monopol ili duopol provajdera u mnogim državama. I, može im se, diktiraju svoje uslove. Ostaje da vidimo da li će se pojaviti novi konkurenti na tržištu, pa ih oduvati. Pogledajte traffic shaping, najaktivniji su već sad provajderi iz USA.