Hi,
Internet service providers often have data limits, usually per month. Is this hurting Internet commerce? Is this putting the brakes a little bit on the economy? Is this hurting the online gaming industry?
Hi,
Internet service providers often have data limits, usually per month. Is this hurting Internet commerce? Is this putting the brakes a little bit on the economy? Is this hurting the online gaming industry?
How can data limits hurt the economy if our eyes aren't real?
My ISP throttles the connection *ALL THE TIME* .
My connection is in the range of 50kb/s to 600kb/s (( I have *NO* choice in the matter ))
This causes a lot of web sites to time out for me
Everytime i threads about connection speeds and limits i get the feeling that the USA is the third world of the internet.
Well, I'm getting 6Mbit/s at most where I live, which is right in the middle of europe
No data limits here. But yeah, DATA limits can severely impact sales for games. It doesn't take long for a game like COD to suddenly get throttled because the ISP is a greedy arse.
How much data are you going to consume per day anyway? 2GB is the standard limit imposed by ISPs in the USA, some have gone beyond 2GB.
2GB / 30 days / 24 hours / 60 mins / 60 secs = ~800 bytes/sec
And that's if you are awake for every single second.
Assuming an 8-hour online activity per day, which is a lot btw, you can consume about ~2.4KB/sec.
Then another question is why would you be gaming on your wireless plan when you can use your faster cable/DSL connections at home/office?