ABC NEWS Article (Is the End of Unlimited Internet Near?)

MagicJackLover101 · Post by **MagicJackLover101** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 1:15 pm

Get ready to say goodbye to unlimited Internet access ???????? s. I thought this has got to be a joke but it's not.

Check this mess out here: [url=http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5689480]Is the End of Unlimited Internet Near ?[/url]

I guess Comcast, Frontier and Time Warner Cable are trying to kill magicjack user's.

Does anyone know of any software that measures Bandwidth usage ?????????????

[url=http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5689480]End of internet usage[/url]

Post by **laserjobs** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 5:49 pm

Not to worry the most you will ever use with the 711u codec is 100 megabytes per hour

lymon · Post by **lymon** » Tue Sep 02, 2008 9:47 pm

Screw Comcast and their content conveying service. Bring back ARAPANET, the way Al Gore intended it to be...

nemfo · Post by **nemfo** » Wed Sep 03, 2008 3:19 am

MANBEARPIG!

JohnnyFreightTRAIN · Post by **JohnnyFreightTRAIN** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 5:10 am

nemfo wrote:MANBEARPIG!

lmfao.
You read my mind.

stroths · Post by **stroths** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 7:46 am

I can see this happening on the lower tier "high speed" internet connections (i.e. $14.95/mo plans). However, there would be higher tier that would be offered I would suspect or they would be at a competitive disadvantage.

I'm not worried though since I have FIOS 20mb down/5mb up

testing123 · Post by **testing123** » Thu Sep 11, 2008 8:01 am

stroths wrote:I can see this happening on the lower tier "high speed" internet connections (i.e. $14.95/mo plans). However, there would be higher tier that would be offered I would suspect or they would be at a competitive disadvantage.

I'm not worried though since I have FIOS 20mb down/5mb up

I think they will do it to whoever they want -- dependent on profit motive and what the market will bare (and by extension, what their competitors are doing).

I have known MANY that were hassled by Comcast, for example, for Port usage (i.e., web server, email server, etc.) -- not even bandwidth consumption.

FIOS is nice but they also block port 25 so you can't run your own SMTP/Email server.

Sample Blogs links about Comcast restrictions below; basically they forced some Users to Business accounts or to other services:
Comcast, the Internet and Restrictions
Comcast’s New Terms of Service: A Recipe for Discrimination
Comcast Blocking Port 25?