On Fri 24 Aug 2018 at 16:18:40 (-0500), John Hasler wrote: > The Wanderer writes: > > If the user chooses a provider which carries those groups, and chooses > > to subscribe to one or more of them, then surely that is what that > > user is choosing to do with the bandwidth which that user purchases > > from that user's provider - and as long as the user's bandwidth limits > > are not exceeded, surely it's none of the provider's business what is > > transported over that bandwidth. > > For marketing reasons they like to advertise very high bandwidth, beyond > what they can actually support on shared channels, and then block > potentially high-bandwidth services that most of their customers will > never use and therefor never miss.
I thought their concern was usage, not bandwidth (ie speed). 360MB is small beer. Downloading a day's House Judiciary Committee hearing from youtube is around 3-4GB. With TV (all off internet), we use 15-30GB per day. Cheers, David.
