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Originally Posted by CC1
I have been reading where the explosive growth in TV online, YouTube, etc has really been causing congestion on the internet.
For that reason I am not surprised at this concept but I am disappointed.
They should be spending their energy and resources towards figuring out how to increase the internet bandwidth, etc rather than trying to limit it.
Up til now the internet has been a great level playing ground where a small church with an A/V department can air a webcast just as a major Hollywood Studio or TV network can and both can have the expectation that their webcast will be availabel to as wide an audience as possible.
We may end up with broadband access to webcasts becoming so expensive that only more affluent folks can enjoy that while common folks are limited to more basic use of the internet. That would be a shame.
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BTW according to the article I read DSL does not have this issue and I am assuming FIOS does not either. Cable always had a rap for bottleneck when several users in an area were using it. However the point you bring out is important. High bandwidth useage is not simply just about file swapping like Bit Torrent.
It's part of their entertainment or even education with watching video at Youtube or even online schools...soon we will be doing TV and we can already download movies to watch rather than go to blockbuster....at some point that is going to make Cable too expensive to have. I would opt for DSL even at a slower rate and wait for FIOS.
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