Bandwidth Caps and the Devil’s Advocate

By JohnB | June 7, 2008

My Thoughts:

I’ve been reading a lot about ISP’s moving towards bandwidth caps. Comcast is most likely going to go with a 250GB monthly cap and TimeWarner is testing a 4GB monthly cap for new customers in Beaumont Texas. I really think it’s a bad idea for business due to the fact that heavy internet/bandwidth users (and yes torrent users as well) will just move elsewhere. While more and more ISP’s move towards measures to prevent them to beefing up their own infrastructure, I’m not entirely sure they’ll ever catch on to the fact that at the end of the day they’re only hurting their own customers and in turn their own bottom line. (not to mention this is one step towards abolishing net neutrality)

The Devil’s Advocate:

All ISP’s have the right to run their own networks how they see fit right? All those torrent seeders downloading their illegal mp3’s (Ed. which is usually nothing more then a linux dvd iso download) and their pirated software are hogging the pipes for everyone else and that’s not cool. So we’re going to lessen everyone’s monthly bandwidth usage and if you go over you’re going to pay us extra. I don’t really get why people think they can just take take take and take, stressing our powerful networks to the max. (Ed. which is why they still need to beef up their networks/infrastructure anyways.) We’re into keeping our shareholders happy. We really don’t care about keeping our customers happy, the shareholders make us the most money anyways. We’re just going to continue to be cheap-asses and you all are going to like it, whether you like it or not!

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