[GI] Online gaming is driving internet growth

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^ Smart guy.

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You use your college's proxy for torrents?! I hope you have a large amount of linux distributions.

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I thought that was what uni Internet was for haha.

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And I live for the day when I can pay for 10 mbit and not pay much at all because I don't use much at all. If you won't limit yourself someone will gladly do it for you.

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It's beyond their rights to restrict my account, though. If I pay for 10mbit, "fair use" shouldn't come into it. I'd say it's only fair to use what I'm paying for. Every second you're not is a complete waste.

I'm against PPU (pay-per-use) services to the ugly end. They will spell the end of everything good.

But I see what you're saying, I think, and I couldn't agree more. For someone like you, you should have 10mbit avaliable to you, but if you don't use it often, you should pay less.

My ideal would be 10mbit per month is a set price (and should cost no more then it does now) for say £20 per month, and if someone like you used it 1/4 of the month (7 days of 28) then you should pay £5 for that month.

ISP's should be forced to upgrade their lines by the government. I'm not a wholley socialist kind of guy, but sometimes I think the government needs to step in and give a short, but commanding slap to businesses that drag their feet over potential profit lost (in the case that the company rakes in record profit for years, then quibbles over spending it)

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There's a use for torrents besides downloading Linux distros?

Who knew...

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Here in Estonia only wireless internet services are limited in data amount and my home cable connection is ~6Mbit/s 24/7/all-year-long

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I understand but still needs to be something limiting people who won't limit themselves. My ideal would be like a formula ISP.

$2 per month for 2 mbit
$6 per month for 6 mbit
$12 per month for 10 mbit

Then add on 3 different charges $6 dollars per month for a standard deviation low user. $ 12 for a standard deviation medium user. 20 22 for a high user. 30 for an excessesive user with excessive only existing at 10 mbit and 6mbit not being allowable for anything but low and medium users. That system would work in high population areas but you'd need like regional formulas for spread out countries, America, australia, canada etc.

That would be a more harmoniosly conformed and conforming system than just charging everyone same and trying to put bigger brakes on the excessive users. Things don't come from nowhere. Someone's power is someone elses powerlessness. Someones unlimitedness is someone else's harsh limitations.

"The Internet is not something that you just dump something on. It's not a big truck. It's a series of tubes!"

-Ted Stevens



First thing I thought of when I saw how much internet usage had gone up recently.

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Not really dude. You payed for 10Mbps. Not 24/7 10Mbps use.