01-11-2016, 09:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-11-2016, 10:00 AM by Mike Watterson.)
I'm on a 10.2GHz / 10.65 GHz Duplex Fixed wireless link. It's reliably 1Mbps up and 7 Mbps to 8Mbps down so far better than average DSL of about 128 k to 256K up and 3Mbps to 6Mbps down (depending which part of UK or Ireland). Cable here is 100Mbps to 400Mbps and 1T byte (1000G) to 4 T byte cap, but I'm 6km away from it. Fibre will be here next year, but at over £50 a month I won't be able to afford it. My Wireless link is very cheap and supports two carrier grade geographic phone numbers, so I have no phone line (rental is about £25 a month before you add DSL or phone calls, the DSL would be only about 384K up, 5Mbps down due to exchange distance.
Even in UK there are many people with only mobile (which usually has a cap even if it claims to unlimited).
No-one actually really offers unlimited. Most UK has a "fair use provision" and about 500GByte to 2 T Byte. I have a 60G cap, but three of us use the connection, so that's 20G each.
Very many USA Broadband users are charged per Gbyte.
Everyone in reality has a "cap".
Cap isn't just "downloads", it the sum of ALL traffic, up and down, of every kind. I used to work in a senior technical role in an ISP. It's absolutely needed to main speed as various parts of the system have contention, and it would not be fair for greedy people to make the connections run at 1/2 to 1/5th speed for average users, which is what happens with "true unlimited" or no cap. To maintain speed, even 4G ought to have a 1G cap. Three is the most irresponsible mobile seller with high caps and price of data subsidised by voice. It makes investment in fixed broadband difficult. They don't really make profit in UK or Ireland as the Hong Kong parent wants to build market share.
Even in UK there are many people with only mobile (which usually has a cap even if it claims to unlimited).
No-one actually really offers unlimited. Most UK has a "fair use provision" and about 500GByte to 2 T Byte. I have a 60G cap, but three of us use the connection, so that's 20G each.
Very many USA Broadband users are charged per Gbyte.
Everyone in reality has a "cap".
Cap isn't just "downloads", it the sum of ALL traffic, up and down, of every kind. I used to work in a senior technical role in an ISP. It's absolutely needed to main speed as various parts of the system have contention, and it would not be fair for greedy people to make the connections run at 1/2 to 1/5th speed for average users, which is what happens with "true unlimited" or no cap. To maintain speed, even 4G ought to have a 1G cap. Three is the most irresponsible mobile seller with high caps and price of data subsidised by voice. It makes investment in fixed broadband difficult. They don't really make profit in UK or Ireland as the Hong Kong parent wants to build market share.
