Comments on: Pay as you Go Internet… Good or Bad Idea?

By: Joel

Joel — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 21:41:42 +0000

I actually have good broadband service. I have a 200 GB/month cap, I haven’t reached it yet.

By: Axlin

Axlin — Wed, 14 Jan 2009 05:26:12 +0000

Sorry, but we’ve already done this. Back in the day, Internet access was paid for by the minute. This is just altering that billing method and trying to claim it’s something new. We moved to unlimited access for a flat rate for a reason. The Internet is something that simply needs to be kept as open as possible. This means open in communication, open in information, and open in quantity of usage, both in terms of time used and bandwidth used. Cutting into any of these will only serve to suffocate the ‘net and seriously hurt its usefulness.

By: zealotnut

zealotnut — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 23:55:56 +0000

3 pay as you go broadband.
total fucking rip off.

By: slashjunior2003

slashjunior2003 — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 01:03:26 +0000

Can’t say I have had many problems. Been on BT Broadband ADSL for a while now, which started at 1MB/s with about 30GB a month it then went up to 2MB/s and now it goes up to it’s maximum possible of 8MB/s unlimited although most the time we only get around 3MB/s, highest it has been is 4, plus my dad works for BT so the discount is pretty sweet.

Used to be on Virgin back with my ex. I probably preferred that to BT, cable seems a bit faster than ADSL.

By: Theirishnintendonerd

Theirishnintendonerd — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 07:12:19 +0000

BAD :(

By: seancuk23

seancuk23 — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 15:42:24 +0000

I already get a 40 gig download limit per month I am in the United Kingdom, Virgin offers fibre optic broadband and all our infrastructure is being replaced so in five years we will be getting a 20mb download speed will be the norm and cheap without caps the US needs to get its act together fast! after all it invented the the internet for godsake!

By: mobias179

mobias179 — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 13:12:17 +0000

For generation Y it is a really bad idea. REALLY REALLY REALLY BAD!!!!!!!! World of Warcraft for those who play it, is dead on that one.

By: calvinyuenblinke

calvinyuenblinke — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 13:42:50 +0000

HDTVA, Chris Pirillo has a wife…

By: HDTVA

HDTVA — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 10:35:34 +0000

What wife? ROFL

By: themachonachoboy

themachonachoboy — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 06:12:10 +0000

I think time warner cable is pretty good but verizon is better!

By: Reset

Reset — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 02:58:51 +0000

hey i’ve heard that time warner cable is tryin this out in texas. man i hope they dont go through with it. this will take us back to the dail-up days.

By: Tyler Keim

Tyler Keim — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 00:56:31 +0000

jI live in a rural area also, but my service from my small company, seems to be better than most larger companies. My phone company offers up to 10MBPS and you can get anything down to 1.5MBPS for a low fee of 19.00 am month. Another thing I like about my ISP is that they are offering a FIBER Based Service! Although it isn’t fully out they are testing it at a few golf courses. I feel that my company will never set any limits like that, just think you could not even download a Linux distro or watch live.pirillo.com. If my ISP did put this cap on me I just think I would go crazy, considering my life is on the internet as well.

By: cowfucker89

cowfucker89 — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 22:42:23 +0000

what a homo you talk about computers on a friday night u should go to the movies with ur wife :)

By: sh4d0w

sh4d0w — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 21:08:01 +0000

Worst idea ever, it would cause way too many problems. People use the internet for so many things nowadays and it’s been doing fine the way it is now, putting a cap on it all or making people pay by the bandwidth would be moving backwards.

By: Xenu

Xenu — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 20:17:22 +0000

Pay as you go internet?

That’s a horrible idea in my opinion. I completely agree with you on that. People that use the internet a lot like you and me will be spending huge amounts just to use it. I’d much prefer keeping the pay by month internet service that I currently use…in the long run it is much cheaper considering that I have my internet running 24/7.

I shudder at the thought of my DSL switching to pay as you go…I’d be severely screwed.

-Xenu