Article View: alt.internet.wireless
Article #317Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran'
From: jayjwa
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:09
Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 10:09
25 lines
2953 bytes
2953 bytes
John Navas <spamfilter1@navasgroup.com> writes: > I'm not sure what you mean by "things the Internet promised" -- do you? > -- but I don't see any real risk to anything other than massive > audio/video downloading, which is NOT what the Internet was built for. What the Internet was built for, and what it does today and can do tomarrow are very different things. I'd hope the latter two would not be limited by the former one. > The real issue isn't "caps" -- it's the insanity of flat rate pricing, > where normal users wind up subsidizing bandwidth hogs. It's long since > time for metered usage. The first home Internet connections were like that. I remember years ago when AOL made its big start. The usage was metered and you'd have one eye on the clock, one on what you were doing. Several of my first accounts were like that. You'd get so many "hours" of use, and beyond that, you'd pay through the nose for each minute/hour/unit over time. Flat-rate was when Internet took off. Before that, people used to get pissed at stuff like a 6-line signature because their usage was metered. This was more by connection time and you are talking more about data size, but the idea is the same: some ticker running out on you. Let's move forward, not backwards.
Technical Details
Message-ID:
<x7d4lqt381.fsf@vdrl.ath.cx>Path:
arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.choiceonecommunications!news.posted.choiceonecommunications.POSTED!not-for-mailReferences:
<4gk254dckmcce9si8g1if64bmq08jm9v1p@4ax.com> <8763sdjef7.fsf@nospam.pacbell.net> <pcSdnUOBS_aqps7VnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@posted.southvalleyinternet> <48542aaf$0$17237$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <HisRoyalRadioHigness-6E2B47.13553714062008@news.announcetech.com> <819i545fe2h55o2p71gfhoul5ois99ut4l@4ax.com>Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Thread: 104fd2,ba5de5a729aa12e1 X-Google-Thread: fa874,ba5de5a729aa12e1 X-Google-Attributes: gid104fd2,gidfa874,domainid0,public,usenet X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!g2news1.google.com!news1.google.com!Xl.tags.giganews.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!local02.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.posted.choiceonecommunications!news.posted.choiceonecommunications.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 05:10:06 -0500 Newsgroups: alt.internet.wireless,ba.internet Subject: Re: NEWS: Free Wi-Fi still a goer in San Fran' From: jayjwa <jayjwa@vdrl.ath.cx.invalid> Organization: [ATr2 RG 2008] User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.2 (gnu/linux) References: <4gk254dckmcce9si8g1if64bmq08jm9v1p@4ax.com> <8763sdjef7.fsf@nospam.pacbell.net> <pcSdnUOBS_aqps7VnZ2dnUVZ_vadnZ2d@posted.southvalleyinternet> <48542aaf$0$17237$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net> <HisRoyalRadioHigness-6E2B47.13553714062008@news.announcetech.com> <819i545fe2h55o2p71gfhoul5ois99ut4l@4ax.com> Date: Mon, 07 Jul 2008 06:09:50 -0400 Message-ID: <x7d4lqt381.fsf@vdrl.ath.cx> Cancel-Lock: sha1:AYufpDLytEumMdQ/v5Zi+r6NCj4= MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Lines: 26 X-Usenet-Provider: http://www.giganews.com NNTP-Posting-Host: 64.179.15.112 X-Trace: sv3-yLH+HWjrz+ziWRk2lrWwkSvcpYL/lxitxeeqNZadHreQDixuvgIRGg6PJw/LJ0FYurViHMYfp8mfZeK!6xhDPlZ/Gvxacji5+nUXCjIdcxPFOeWNqbPAUpecvf/5X0yPZ/jkp+pWZ/VmTTaA8V9p8AXC2NJE!6/+o X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.3.39