On 7/9/06, Harsh Busa harsh.busa@gmail.com wrote:
On 7/9/06, Mitul Limbani mitul@enterux.com wrote:
Harsh,
You forgot some important things :)
So no matter how much ever bandwidth you have, people over here are just hungry to eat it all :P
These are the few reasons why people need unlimited data transfers.
you have a point . are we treating bandwidth like drinking water ? have we started abusing it ?
Not really. It's like asking "do apps use up too much of memory nowadays". They do because as capacity increases, applications grow to fit that size ( in case of windows, exceed them :P ). Similarly, stuff being downloaded increases in size, right from streaming media, ISOs and pr0n to all of the pirated crap. Inspite of that I think bandwidth usage balances out because for every big downloader there are tens of users who simply check emails, chat and log off.
Having said that I find it silly when users crib and cry at the *exhorbitant prices* for bandwidth. 1000-1300 for 256 kbps is reasonable at the moment here in India (most ISPs are in that range AFAIK). As higher speeds are introduced in user space, prices for 256 kbps will drop. You can see that from the fact that 3 years ago 64 kbps unlimited connections were hovering around the 1000 INR mark. Today 64kbps connections come at below 500 INR and 256 kbps has taken over the mantle of being premium.
Siddhesh
PS: I download an average of 100 MB per day, amounting to around 3Gigs a month. The pattern is erratic though; an odd ISO costs me 700 MB in a single day. And then there are regular dist-upgrades for sid.