1 GIG ISP?

[SgtJoo]

 

I am thinking of it from a business standpoint. Would giving so quick speeds to people who don't even need/have any use for it (most of the residential customers) benefit anyone? No. Think, these are the people who run hot-porn.jpg.exe; do you really want them to contribute to the taking-down of websites when they join a botnet?

 

I think the speeds should be offered, but you need to state a good reason for needing it. The majority of people who "I just use the Internets to check my email and facebook" will not ever need these speeds, and allowing them to have it will only rake up abuse problems.

 

*Cough* The ISPs who can now charge out the ass for those aforementioned speeds. *Cough*

[Harry]

*Cough* The ISPs who can now charge out the ass for those aforementioned speeds. *Cough*

Exactly, it keeps out the casual people who will just rack up abuse reports because they are silly horny people. If you want more speed than is required for normal browsing (10Mbit, maybe even 50Mbit, is all the average person will need), you should pay for it.

[Bilbo Baggins]

Exactly, it keeps out the casual people who will just rack up abuse reports because they are silly horny people. If you want more speed than is required for normal browsing (10Mbit, maybe even 50Mbit, is all the average person will need), you should pay for it.

 

Well I've been avoiding replying to this thread as its a clone of one I already made =(

I fee l I must reply now. You go on about how people don't need that much bandwidth go back to the 90s and you'll find a lot of people wondered what the normal consumer would ever do with the amazing speed of a pentium II. Now you're doing the same thing with bandwidth, something which individuals are continuing to consume more of. Just because people use more bandwidth doesn't mean they're abusing it, now a days you can stream HD video and the like something which more and more people are doing, which takes a lot of bandwidth. Its like having dial up now, yeah you can still go on facebook and stuff but in a few years the average internet use will have changed to the point where normal broadband speeds in the US of today really won't be adequate.

[Harry]

people don't need that much bandwidth go back to the 90s

Times change. Speed should be adjusted accordingly at the same rates.

 

Once it takes more than 10 or even 50Mbit to check your email and normal browsing, please let me know, I will gladly push for increased speeds for normal residential customers.

[Spiffy]

Times change. Speed should be adjusted accordingly at the same rates.

 

Once it takes more than 10 or even 50Mbit to check your email and normal browsing, please let me know, I will gladly push for increased speeds for normal residential customers.

 

You are everything wrong with the corporate world. I hope to god you aren't studying for an executive type job.

[Harry]

You are everything wrong with the corporate world. I hope to god you aren't studying for an executive type job.

Feel free to weigh in on the advantages of giving people a ton of speed when they do not need it. Bandwidth isn't free. You can not sustain a business with the bandwidth fees that everyone having 1Gbit would produce, without charging EVERYONE a lot more.

[SgtJoo]

Feel free to weigh in on the advantages of giving people a ton of speed when they do not need it. Bandwidth isn't free. You can not sustain a business with the bandwidth fees that everyone having 1Gbit would produce, without charging EVERYONE a lot more.

 

Or charging the person with 1Gbit a lot more?

[Bilbo Baggins]

Times change. Speed should be adjusted accordingly at the same rates.

 

Once it takes more than 10 or even 50Mbit to check your email and normal browsing, please let me know, I will gladly push for increased speeds for normal residential customers.

 

My point isn't that checking your email is using more bandwidth but that people's use of the internet is changing and that doesn't constitute 'abuse'. Also I didn't mention this before but you don't just have to think about the bandwidth needed for one person but you have consider that a lot of the time people share internet connections, so the acceptable ten megabit connection you mention earlier just is inadequate when multiple people are doing what you call 'normal browsing' ( which I assume includes youtube and the like).

 

You talk about speed being 'adjusted accordingly at the same rates' did you consider that in the 90s that wondering what people would actually use pentium IIs made perfect sense, nobody used computers like they do today because they couldn't do it. But as computers became more powerful people thought of what else they could do and made computers do it, by keeping internet speeds down you are accomplishing nothing but stifling innovation.

[Spiffy]

Feel free to weigh in on the advantages of giving people a ton of speed when they do not need it. Bandwidth isn't free. You can not sustain a business with the bandwidth fees that everyone having 1Gbit would produce, without charging EVERYONE a lot more.

 

I really don't care enough to post an essay about everything wrong with your thought process in this thread but I will leave you with this little comment to think about. You say people will abuse it by torrenting or whatever you consider abuse but what about gaming? A lot of people hate gaming and would see you as stealing their bandwidth just as you do. If companies would use their money on making their service faster (in all aspects) and more reliable you wouldn't even notice people downloading shit all day. Slow down the entire internet? That was by far your worst comment here.

[Chobber]

Alright, got some people going for me on the technical aspect.. I'll take the "need" aspect of it..

 

I still can't possibly see why people would only use the much larger bandwidth to something negative? I never said that I have a halo above me, but I know for sure, that the first thing I would be thinking of if I had a better connection wouldn't be darn illegal stuff..

What do you think of when you get your salary each month? Do you think guns and drugs? .. If you do, honestly, I feel sorry for the low amount of life quality you have! Why have such a destructive way of thinking, that everyone would just become mad evil if they had some better tools, which this eventually would be?

 

Oh and btw .. What we need more bandwidth for? Well.. I know the two largest fiber-providers in Denmark provides TV through your fiber-connection.. Theres some bandwidth usage for you!

Again, if you don't like it or you don't want it.. Then just dont get it!

If you, as quite some of us apparently, can see the positive, useful aspect of this - why keep arguing its a bad thing?