technica

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Old News

Old news is so exciting.
This article is based from ars technica dated August 19, 2007.
Someone should tell Copowi they've only been online 2 weeks now. I'll bet they'll be surprised.
Oh, and they're down to $41.95/month for a 6mbit connection the last I heard.

That's some nice report'en there.

Bandwidth doesn´t grow on trees

I don´t understand how people can argue for net neutrality, yet complain about a price of $33.95. It´s fabulous that p2pers get all that bandwidth on the cheap, but somebody has to pay for it sooner or later.

I think that instead of passing a net neutrality law, they should phase in a flat amount per gigabyte law. You´d basically have a minimum price for access, and if they number of gigabytes downloaded times the cost per gigabyte gets higher than the minimum price, then you´re charged according to how much each gigabyte costs. Also, gaming has tiny packets that need to get where they´re going in a hurry, but p2p and the web aren´t quite as much of an emergency, so they should get different treatment.

How about, instead of a net neutrality law, we have a throttling neutrality law? Everybody gets throttled equally. They could change the rules on the fly, but the rules would apply to everybody on the network, instead of the suspected p2pers.