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May 07
2008
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One of our beta testers is in Oz and sent me this story about Comcast putting a 250G limit on monthly downloads and added this comment:
Here in Sydney we pay $89.95AUD/month for 768K DSL with a 2G limit on combined uploads and downloads. Every 10M over that limit costs $0.25AUD. What in the world are Americans doing on the internet?
Wow. Bandwidth limiting. And, no, I don't know how you could need 250G/month unless you were watching live streaming moves. At one/night at 9G per movie, that would about do it, I guess.
25 years ago there were no video stores near me, 15 years ago there were a dozen, and now there are none again. 20 years ago I signed up for AOL (CompuServer was for noobs), 15 years ago they put in volume pricing plans by the minute, 5 years ago they took 'em off, now it is free.
How are ever gonna explain the recent past to our kids?



