I got lucky and got grandfathered into an unlimited 3G plan with Sprint. Unfortunately, at a peak average of 150kb/s, it'll takes me all night to download anything over a gig anyway. ****

I could go with Verizon and get 4G, but it's $50 for a 5gig limit or $80 for a 10gig limit, with $10 a gig overage. If ALL I ever did was game, I'd never even hit that 5gig limit. However, I do like my youtube, my Itunes, and well, sites in general have a video ad lurking on every page somewhere anymore and let's not forget, content patches for games aren't small. Ironic - faster internet, but the limit is ridiculously low. It's like being given a sports car but only having 50 meters of road to drive on.

The reason companies are pulling this crap is to make money. A more sensible system to curb bandwidth hogs without screwing over everyone else would only track and reset usage limitations weekly or preferably daily. I could go with a 1 gig allowance a day. That's barely a single HD movie. Actually, I'd prefer if the "packages" we paid for determined bandwidth speeds, not how much data we download. The problem with letting the customer pay for their preferred speed is that there's no way to set a hard limit that once passed, the ISP can shaft said customer hardcoe. It's all about dinging someone once they hit that cap.

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You're all crying over having "bad" internet that I can only dream of ever having. ;^;