On 5/2/2011 4:06 PM, Spiro Harvey wrote:
>
>> Also worth considering is to upgrade the subscription to unlimited
>> internet access.
>
> 1. There's no such thing as unlimited. There are always limits. You're
> thinking of "flat rate."
>
> 2. Flat rate isn't available in every country.
>
> 3. Irrespective of cost, sometimes heavy downloading can eat into a
> connection's bandwidth and kill the connection for everyone else. In
> fact, upgrading to a flat rate plan encourages this kind of behaviour
> more.
It's not like you are going to wear out the wires or the world will run
out of bits. What you need is to encourage your ISP to provide capacity
at a reasonable price. Some places do, some don't. On the other hand,
unexpected bandwidth usage may indicate that you have a virus on the LAN
or some peer-to-peer fileshare has accidentally been enabled.
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Les Mikesell
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