It’s always ridiculous to me when people call it “abuse” to use the service you paid for. Rate limit it or don’t. But if you sell it as unlimited, how is making use of it’s unlimitedness abuse? All kinds of tech stuff is like this, bandwidth etc. Don’t sell it as unlimited and be transparent about the limits. Or maybe this user is offset by others and the business is fine with it :shrug-outta-hecks: but it’s not abuse to use what they allow.
Feels like the wire line and wireless carriers’ “unlimited” plans that decided to punish everyone for a minuscule number of power users. Obviously the reality is that they used the exceptions to push rate and data caps to extract more money from all users.
Bandwidth is one that particularly annoys me because of how often it is falsely advertised as unlimited when it is not. I don’t have a problem with limits, I understand unlimited is not cheap, just advertise it correctly. Don’t do the whole, unlimited but subject to abuse policies. Just spell out for me what the limits are.
Like, if you advertise unlimited bandwidth mobile plan and I watch a ton of youtube, how is that abuse? How am I supposed to know how much “unlimited” means?
In your example, they would want the end user customer to pay for the extra bandwidth and the content provider to also pay more for interconnect and colocation fees.
Any bandwidth cap is effectively also a data cap but they get around it in the US because of regs that say they can do “normal” network management to maintain some level of service quality. So they can advertise one speed which end users experience as a lot slower but they can claim that it is part of network management.
It’s always ridiculous to me when people call it “abuse” to use the service you paid for. Rate limit it or don’t. But if you sell it as unlimited, how is making use of it’s unlimitedness abuse? All kinds of tech stuff is like this, bandwidth etc. Don’t sell it as unlimited and be transparent about the limits. Or maybe this user is offset by others and the business is fine with it :shrug-outta-hecks: but it’s not abuse to use what they allow.
Feels like the wire line and wireless carriers’ “unlimited” plans that decided to punish everyone for a minuscule number of power users. Obviously the reality is that they used the exceptions to push rate and data caps to extract more money from all users.
Bandwidth is one that particularly annoys me because of how often it is falsely advertised as unlimited when it is not. I don’t have a problem with limits, I understand unlimited is not cheap, just advertise it correctly. Don’t do the whole, unlimited but subject to abuse policies. Just spell out for me what the limits are.
Like, if you advertise unlimited bandwidth mobile plan and I watch a ton of youtube, how is that abuse? How am I supposed to know how much “unlimited” means?
In your example, they would want the end user customer to pay for the extra bandwidth and the content provider to also pay more for interconnect and colocation fees.
Any bandwidth cap is effectively also a data cap but they get around it in the US because of regs that say they can do “normal” network management to maintain some level of service quality. So they can advertise one speed which end users experience as a lot slower but they can claim that it is part of network management.