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1. Comment - Frontier ISP toys with 5 GB usage cap

   (Aug 26, 2008 - 7:28 PM)

   Imposing a 5GB per month cap means that you and your family can't even rent an online movie twice per month and have it streamed to you. DrA$$Hole, learn what you're talking about before you lower your IQ 2 points every time you attempt to sound informed. You've already set yourself back into the stone age so stop while you're ahead. Lowering an IQ that's only double digits to begin with is a bad idea. The whole idea of having broadband is so that everyone in the house can use it at the same time with multiple computers. If you subscribe to DrNeanderthal's flash of candle light, everyone who has broadband is a movie pirating, bandwidth hog. There are too many reasons to list why a subscriber could go through 5GB in a day, easily and legitimately. I'm located where neither DSL or Cable is offered so I use Hughesnet satellite service. It's $60/month and speeds are capped at 1 to 1.2 mbit/sec download but between 3am and 6am, total bandwidth restrictions are lifted. It's a terrible time of the day to offer unlimited bandwidth but of course it's their off-peak time. I can get updates for everything I want and can usually grab about 1.4 GB of data in that 3 hour time span each day. That's far more bandwidth offered by a satellite ISP than Frontier offers to DSL subscribers and more worth the $60 the way it is now. I can grab 175 MB every 4 hours during off peak time periods. Verizon keeps threatening to run fiber optic down my road, time will tell. I'm anxiously awaiting that day.