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Um, about traffic shaping, monthly capacity etc.
Why does Everyone refuse to even Consider Dial Up.?
After all, 4,5 kbytes per second, 3600 seconds a hour, 24 hours a day, 30 days a month ends up being 12-20 GIG a month.
From what Ive seen of so called Fair Use Policies, they combine Upload, and Download data together, so anyone offering 40 gig a month, is only letting you use the equivalent of a dial up connection.. 80 Gig a month is equivalent to a dual channel ISDN.
I think I ask this every year.
When are we going to have gurenteed dial up capacity on our so called broadband connections?
When is anyone who does a Broadband Comparison, use Dial Up as a baseline comparison also?
I miss the good old days when I could download a full gig over the weekend on a V92 modem, thats 4 Gig a month even now, with 2 Gig limited BroadBand.
So, traffic shaping, guarentee one 64k channel for voice, one for browsing, one for general data, and the rest to be shared dynamically purely depending on how many people there are?. Given that this way, you pay minimum, you get One data channel, as you pay more, you get More guarenteed data channels?
What would be expected costs this method?
Rodney
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Alternatively, instead of Dial-Up where you set a file a file to download and leave it for the weekend, or maybe update windows, you go for a good well rated ISP. In my case it's Be Unlimited.
At my average speed I get 14MBps which equates to 1.75 MegaBytes per second. In a month I can therefore theoretically do 4536Gbs a month!
And that's £18 a month.
It's not a case of going back to dial-up, just getting a good ISP 
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I had NTL dial up for a time. I couldn't download large files as they pulled the plug after 2 hours. The other downside was the phone was out of action when on the net.
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