I cant get hulu and havent downloaded any feature length movies from itunes, Ive presumed they come in at way less than 5gig. But even so, 5 gig is not a lot really in this day and age, not for a whole month. It might be an acceptable limit for someone who doesnt do multimedia, especially if it was an extremely low priced broadband option, but its too loow for mainstream.
Definately keep an eye on this stuff. Speaking from experience in the UK where we've had this stuff since almost day one of broadband, the caps here are normally reasonable enough that even a download-mad user like myself isnt affected. Only users who were filesharing 24/7 and downloading and uploading heck of a lot of gigs fell foul of such rules. There has occasionally been a limit that is too low, and more people may run into it now with the likes of BBC iPlayer being popular here, but a vaguely sane balance has often been achieved. So long as they are just trying to target the 5% or whatever of users who have very non-standard useage patterns, its not going to change the way the masses experience the internet. I know when this stuff was discussed here in the past, people saw various commercial mainstream reasons why tsome would like to severely limit service, but I still think there are enough powerful business interests that want the internet as we know it to continue. The economic poop is a bigger threat to the internet as we know it right now, oh dear its going to get ugly :( On the brightside the longterm sustainability issues probably mean that whilst the wider god of growth that fuels the wacky economy as we know it will die, digital growth is still feasible. It can save a lot of transport and use of physical resources which will be in short supply. Th tubes and wireless alternatives will become more vital, and those factors will be wieghed against the desire of some to control and squeeze the tubes. Hopefully. Oh dear this reply is a bit long, I will try harder to be brief next time ;) Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "Heath" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One company, Fronteir wants to go as low as 5 gigs a month....That's > maybe a movie, Hulu? forget about it, Itunes?, forget about it... > > We need to pay attention to this stuff... > > Heath "The Artist" > > www.?????.com
