-=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless
- From: Gman <gman.pctt@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 17:19:14 -0400
Well, although I have not yet received direct notice of this, it appears
that my DSL provider, Frontiernet, has gone and added this to their online
"terms of service" page. They have also opted to go with an incredibly
meager 5GB limit per rolling 30 day period, which is beyond ridiculously low
for today's internet.
I cannot imagine these policies lasting too long before the general public
(that's all of us, folks) stops subscribing to the services that use these
limits. I do know that if/when they hit me with a limit infraction, I'll be
screaming my head off at them about how that's not a term I agreed to when I
signed the contract. If they give me any backtalk and refuse to budge, I'll
accept that as a strong sign that they really don't want my businesss so
I'll take it elsewhere, even if that ultimately means back to dial-up.
Peace,
Gman
"The only dumb questions are the ones we fail to ask"
----- Original Message -----
From: "Don101" <don101@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <pctechtalk@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, August 07, 2008 9:28 AM
Subject: -=PCTechTalk=- Re: Wireless
> You are lucky to get unlimited service for only US$65. I was looking
> into that type of service (don't remember why) the other day and
> Verizon, who used to be unlimited, but is now limited to 5GB for
> US$50/mo.
>
> I quit looking at that point. Was not even interested in learning the
> overage charge per GB. With all the high powered "stuff" on every
> website, especially in the advertising, I don't think 5GB would last
> very long. Unless the speed was incredibly slow.
>
> I just popped up my handy dandy Windows calculator and did some math.
> Assuming a continuous transfer rate of 1.5MB per sec you get 3333.333
> seconds ( about 55 minutes) per month. Slow that down to a slow DSL
> rate of about 750KB/sec and you get almost 2 hours per month. While
> transfers are not continuous and certainly not that fast all the time
> if you average 56KB/sec you still get less than an hour a day.
>
> Anybody have any idea of what a fair average transfer rate per second
> would be to determine how much internet time you get for 5GB? Or what
> average percentage of the time on the internet at a given average
> transfer speed is actually spent transferring data? I bet using a
> custom HOSTS file would vastly increase the available time.
>
> Don
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