I have a 10gbps fiber LAN. It was cheap to set up and have it running.
I do not buy your argument.
People buy a certain level of service, they should be able to enjoy it as in the rest of the world.
I do not buy your argument.
People buy a certain level of service, they should be able to enjoy it as in the rest of the world.
Please max out the line rate for a month or so straight and then tell me how happy your ISP is with you.
They are banking on the fact that you’re pulling 100mbps at the most, with bursts to 10gbps occasionally.
So then 300Mb/s transit, which is around the services these incumbent dinosaur ISPs are offering, is $20/mo? And $20/mo is only 10-20% of their large monthly bills? You're basically proving the opposing argument here in the general case [0].
For reference, I've asked my 1Gb/s municipal provider if they have bandwidth caps, and they told me "no" and that they are not concerned with how much bandwidth I use.
[0] The specific case is that most users are streaming video from large entertainment providers, for which the ISP isn't even paying transit but rather merely the electricity and rack units of CDN edge boxes.
As long as they also provide people the bandwidth sold to them when they want it.
Otherwise compensation should be in order if they throttle.
Same logic for interstate. You lay fiber once and scale equipment as needed. If you already have the fiber there then just use better modules.
If ISPs sell you a bandwidth per month they should deliver it.
You're the one that's short changed if you accept the throttling.