Probably the "too little too late" bit. Personally, I agree with your idea o' spreadin' broadband all over the place. Elaborate further for a non-tech-minded hoobah like myself. Because anythin' that can punch Internet companies in the nuts is a-okay in my book.

I guess like the tsunami issue nobody wants to do anything until it's right at your doorstep.

Which part was "roll over and die"? I thought I presented an alternative to combating this.

Okay good alternative, but why does it have to be an alternative? Why not both? That's what I'm trying to say.

Because monthly caps are already in place -- AT&T being the last major US broadband carrier to implement them. Bell Canada was the last major Canadian broadband carrier. Hence, too late. That scenario is gone. :wave: People had an awful long time to stop this from coming and didn't do anything.

So of the two scenarios, one is still viable. There are actually other alternatives, like wireless, but they also need quite a bit of infrastructure upgrades to be seen as competitors in the broadband market, and like broadband carriers, there's, right, now, also a limited amount of competitors, due to the very same reason of swallowing up other competing companies.

Why? WHY is it too late? Is it written into the meta physical threads of the multiverse that it can't be undone EVER?

Unlike Microsoft Word, unfortunately the situation isn't as simple as hitting an Undo button, especially when getting something like this takes years of both implementation and PR.. convincing the public that this is perfectly okay, which they certainly have responded to by.. continuing to take the services of Comcast, Charter, Rogers, Videotron, and so on, all of which implement monthly bandwidth caps, some of them for years now.

People speak with their money, and that is what these companies ultimately listen to. The fact that a mere possibility exists, and the probability that it occur, are on two planes of discussion, one of which seems rather trivial to discuss unless you have some actual tangible solution as to how the scenario proposed would work and actually be worth the effort instead of the other means proposed.

Okay your plan is good, but why not do both? You want to ensure the future for a competitive market, so go all the way. Give them no quarter. I also never said it would be easy.

In lieu of not posting the same thing repetitively, I'd go with posts #120 and middle paragraph of #126, or just #131 which directly answered this very question.

Unfortunately if you want a stable broadband connection at all, right now, your options are limited. Therefore, work with what you have, instead of with what you don't, would seem like the Occam's Razor method.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsffmLcEqPo
http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=7z5w%2BIGegwbzo18k3dtyn67jKoBopJls
http://action.cwa-union.org/salsa/track.jsp?v=2&c=P8qEZ6gAa%2FsE3slshr3ka67jKoBopJls

Your plan idea is better as a stepping stone to greater things. We'll make things to work with, instead of just working in the system. Also lol Occam's Razor is ironic every time it is used.

Hope you guysfight off the cap, it def svcks. I'd hate to see it spread down here to the US too

Rogers Accidentally Throttling World Of Warcraft
Problems With Company's Network Management Continue

Canadian cable operator Rogers has been one of the most aggressive ISPs in terms of playing whac-a-mole with P2P users over the last five years. In addition to service tiers featuring some of the lowest caps and highest per gig overages in North America, Rogers has a long history of using various methods to throttle P2P users, even when encrypted. Judging from numerous posts in our Rogers forum over the last year, Rogers' deep-packet-inspection based throttling technology has occasionally crippled user speeds substantially, and in some cases the technology has impacted non-P2P applications. Back in October of last year, Rogers admitted the problems in our forums:

_{Hey all - we've been following the conversation here and wanted to jump in with an update. As some of you are aware, Rogers recently made some upgrades to our network management systems that had the unintended effect of impacting non-p2p file sharing traffic under a specific combination of conditions. Our network engineering team is working on the best way to address this issue as quickly as possible.}

Fast forward almost half a year, and Rogers is now acknowledging that their over-enthusiastic traffic management platform has also been accidentally throttling World Of Warcraft users. Responding to complaints by Canadian regulators, Rogers says they fixed one issue causing accidentally WOW throttling, only to have another pop up. Rogers says this new problem won't be fixed until June: