There are theories.

We already have caps. They're imposed by lazy ISPs who don't feel like providing the actual amount of bandwidth their customers are paying for. Sometimes by half.

Seriously, we have Silicon Valley. Considering how fast computers are advancing, it shouldn't be that hard to compensate at least a LITTLE quantity with better quality for only a little more per unit.

just to be othe outlinig of relevant news... this would never happen, beause coporations got most of the web...

or do you think blizzard, google, apple, microsoft and sony (to cite a few) wont do a thing if it was real

it really is jut stupid BS to point against net neutrality

It is so very horrible, I misspelled it twice.

Isn't that illegal?
I mean we have caps but we pay based on how much you want and how fast you want it.

For those of us on Shaw Cable (In Canukleda!), $40/mo gets you 5 Mb/s downstream, 512 Kb/s upstream, and a combined bandwidth cap of 60 GB/mo (Thank god for the capital B).

I am, understandably, pissed. Not only are we getting terrible speeds when compared with other regions, we're paying high fees for annoying limits.

I swear, I'm going to live at a Norwegian university someday. A mate I talk to apparently has a 50 Mb/s line with no cap. Jealousy = Me.

For comparison, $50 gets you 10 Mb/s down, 1 Mb/s up, 100 GB bandwidth, and 15 Mb/s down for the first 10 MB of a file. I'm tempted. Very tempted.

5 Mb is a bit above the standard in North America (I think the most common package on DSL and Cable is 3 Mb/s). Which, as far as I can tell, is perfectly fine unless you are planning on downloading everything in existance, and downloading it so you have it RIGHT HERE RIGHT NOW.

I've been operating off of 768 kb/s, or whatever the number is around there, and it hasn't hindered me at all. Sure, things download a tad bit slower, but I don't have problems with youtube videos stopping on me, and I can just do something else while that mp3 or that free album from a netlabel downloads. It hasn't strangled my Skype, chained my chatting, stoppered my surfing.

To me, it's senseless to pay so much for a faster connection, unless you are hosting a server yourself.

I transfer a fair bit of data. Before I realized that I was capped, I was transferring ~120GB a month. Speed also helps when you have other people on the network to contend with; schedule downloads to run at night, you don't have to worry about disturbing others, and they're ready in the morning. Or if you need something right now, boom, 1 MB/s. That 3 GB file? Done in an hour.

Well pretty much any university you go to will give you fast internet. I mean I get ridiculous speeds here with no cap. Of course I need it for my research, and my "research".

What the hell are you doing that requires 120 Gigs a month? I don't even have that much worth of data on my harddrives and CD/DVD-Rs.

And I operate fine on 768 with 3 others using the network at the same time.