1 GIG ISP?

[Harry]

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

Gaming is legal to do bro, it's not comparable to torrenting. Gaming also uses (at least in the source engine) 50 kb/s AT MOST of bandwidth per client. Torrenting easily pushes the entire line's speed. Even if you're talking about legal torrents, it's still requesting and sending a lot more per second than gaming does.

 

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.

I would very much LOVE for the hardware of all ISPs and upstream providers to be updated and quicker.

 

Slow down the entire internet? That was by far your worst comment here.

You're right. The end-user won't notice a huge difference. The people providing the upstream (and site admins), WILL notice. The Interbutts is a delicate thing.

 

I know the two largest fiber-providers in Denmark provides TV through your fiber-connection.. Theres some bandwidth usage for you!

Bandwidth isn't free, you'd understand this if you ran/worked at an ISP. The upstream providers charge you - usually per total TB used per month. The more speed a user has available, the more chance it will end up hitting YOUR wallet, even if everything they did was legal. Someone viewing YouTube at 1Gbit 24/7 will rake up higher charges than someone viewing at 50Mbit 24/7 (simply because they can do more at the same time-frame).

 

Then as an ISP you have two choices:

1) Record and charge your customers of bandwidth use per month (Comcast/Rogers/some other large ISPs do this). This is a horrible plan and makes your end users hate you. The more push for quicker speeds when the upstream providers still charge a lot per TB will encourage this plan of action, which will negatively affect everyone.

2) Limit the end user's speed so they won't rake up hundreds of dollars in bandwidth use per month (all other ISPs who offer "unlimited bandwidth" do this).

3) Offer unlimited bandwidth, give unlimited bandwidth. Receive bankruptcy!

 

What can you do as a customer? Encourage providers to make their network run cheaper, which then makes the upstream providers able to charge less, making the ISP cost less to run, and then results in the end-user having a higher chance of having higher speeds.

 

Reason why the speeds offered get quicker each year is because it's cheaper for the upstream providers to manage the lines, so the upstream providers can offer the ISP a cheaper bandwidth package, and then the ISP can give the end users quicker speeds.

 

Yes, it's horrible capitalism, and I hate it, but it's what must be done. Unless of course you want to run your own ISP. You then can chose what speeds you want, and YOU will be the one paying for any and all bandwidth you use.

[Chobber]

Wat... You're talking east and west now..