{"id":107,"date":"2008-06-03T15:20:24","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/antipaucity.com\/2008\/06\/03\/metering-bandwidth\/"},"modified":"2008-06-03T15:20:24","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T20:20:24","slug":"metering-bandwidth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=107","title":{"rendered":"metering bandwidth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A horrible comparison has been drawn in the following AP article about TimeWarner: <a href=\"http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A\">http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A<\/a>. &#8220;You&#8217;re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a problem with that statement: lots of cell phone users are going to unlimited time and text plans. I just switched because my personal phone is also my home phone is also my work number. So, switching made a great deal of sense.<\/p>\n<p>My roadrunner bill was for &#8220;unlimited&#8221; usage. Of course, it&#8217;s <em>de facto<\/em> limited by the speed cap. If they want to meter usage, they could just drop the top speed. It&#8217;s how my hosting provider operates: I pay for an\u00a0&#8220;unlimited&#8221; 2Mbps pipe to the outside world. I can&#8217;t push content faster than that. No per-gig funkiness required.<\/p>\n<p>(Thanks to Ben P on the the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/trilug.org\" title=\"opens in new window\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">TriLUG<\/a> mailing list for pointing this story out.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A horrible comparison has been drawn in the following AP article about TimeWarner: http:\/\/ap.google.com\/article\/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A. &#8220;You&#8217;re used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?&#8221; There&#8217;s a problem with that statement: lots of cell phone users &hellip;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/?p=107\" class=\"more-link pen_button pen_element_default pen_icon_arrow_double\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">metering bandwidth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,30,41],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-commentary","category-news","category-technical"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=107"},{"taxonomy":"keyring_services","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/merikebi.warrenmyers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fkeyring_services&post=107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}