The Spotlight: Unlimited Internet No More?

The Spotlight: Unlimited Internet No More?

In This Episode: Starbucks free WiFi launches, the "Netbook" fad, Microsoft's new search gimic, billboards that watch you, a solar-powered house plant and how Comcast and Time Warner are testing limitations on Internet bandwidth use. Plus a flamethrower wheelchair.

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sandmanwn 06/06/2008 8:34 PM
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Capped internet is like the internet devolving right before our eyes. I thought things were supposed to get better over time, seems like TW and Comcast just don't see it that way. I dropped Time Warner this month as my companies ISP and switched over to XO and made sure to list some of their policies as examples for not renewing our contract. I would drop Comcast as well but no choice at present.

Lovely job as usual Tamara. The technical production is finally catching up as well.

Chaos-Energy 06/06/2008 10:44 PM
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Capped internet, welcome to my world. Here in Belgium we have extremely shitty ISPs due to the fact that 2 providers share about 90-95% of the customers and those 2 both have ridiculous low bandwith limits for way too much money. The provider we use charges us ?42/month (that's $65) for a 12GB download/upload limit. And for only ?61/month (that would be a whopping $95) we receive a 30GB limit. Woopti-freaking-do. So why don't we change to one of those smaller providers with higher limits (yes higher, not unlimited)? Well we have cable internet and the provider we use is the only cable provider in the country. All others are ADSL and we live fairly far away from the nearest central, which would reduce our download speed to about 200kBps if we're lucky.

Belgium is one of the only, if not the only country in Europe that has this shitty internet service. So why don't the government does something about it? Well if you read about the Belgian government a few months ago you'll know that they're too busy with much more important stuff. 8-)

amdfangirl 06/07/2008 5:55 AM
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Australia's internet is already like that (at least the cheaper plans) they'll probably make you pay more for those unlimited plans.

Anonymous 06/07/2008 6:43 AM
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WHAT?????????????? One more reason to say F---Off Timewarner

Balshoy 06/07/2008 8:58 AM
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FINALLY there's a positive fact about living in Romania... UNLIMITED internet, speeds up to 5-6 Mb/s and for just 20$ a month. :D

P.S.: The internet here is very stable too :D


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