[DM-MUG] downloadable movies : impact on ISPs

[Dave Weis]

On Fri, 8 Sep 2006, jim lagnese wrote:
> But what's the upload speed? Last I remember, Mediacom was 256k up...Even
> 896K is dog. I agree with Dave though, and another thing in other countries
> is that they are taxed a lot more for just about everything and I bet there
> is a healthy tax on the internet usage.

I think the cable upload gets closer to 1 meg with the faster speeds. 
There's legitimate technical reasons that the upload is so much lower than 
the download for cable and DSL.

There is no USF tax any more on DSL here.

dave



> On 9/8/06 8:15 AM, "Jerry Heiselman" <jweida at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I've seen the ads for Mediacom offering up to 10 mbs.  I imagine a lot
>> of ISPs will start offering higher download speeds.  I've also heard
>> talk of some ISPs considering going back to a pay-for-bandwidth model
>> for people who put high demands on the system.
>>
>> I know that I've seen tools out there to watch and report on an ISPs
>> top bandwidth consumers, so it could be just a matter of time before
>> they start automating mailings to go out to those users that say that
>> they have gone over the normal allowed usage and will be switched to a
>> pay-for-bandwidth package.
>>
>> In one respect I can see how that would be a nuisance to someone who
>> only would do it occasionally to download a movie, but I definitely
>> understand the ISPs point of view in needing to maintain these
>> networks with high capacity demands.
>>
>> --
>> Jerry
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