[citation][nom]mrpijey[/nom]9GB cap... wow... it takes me about two minutes to use that up. Sure sucks to live there if you're an Internet user...[/citation]
9GB in two minutes? That's an average of 600Mb/s. That's one heck of an internet connection you have there... At least 750Mb or 1Gb. I envy your internet a little.
[citation][nom]angryfingertips[/nom]Caps to me mean that the telco and cable companies are just trying to raise their rates in a backdoor sort of way and a way to save the cable TV from internet streaming If you are really wanting to base it on use, you would charge for how much is used, like electric companies do. I fear that one day in the future we will all be paying per byte we d/l. Which is really awful since programs get bigger and bigger over time.[/citation]
We just need to then implement incredible compression algorithms much more into our internet. With CPU performance increasing and GPUs getting more general-purpose, the computers can more than handle decompressing lots of data quickly enough (you just need to have storage that can keep up and all that takes is having two hard drives, one to download to and one to decompress too, so you can just have a spare hard drive that can write a download to and then read it to be decompressed to your main drive. Or, a single SSD or RAM drive can do the same job).
Websites need to compress communications to client devices (especially updates and other downloads, big and small) and such. That could reduce the impact of ISPs doing something as *heinous* as capping our internet even more than they do now (for those of us who are already capped) greatly. Opera Turbo is a step in the right direction for this. This would also help people who share an internet connection with several or even many other people so that they can afford a fast connection (not a too uncommon thing to do) because each person would be far less taxing on the internet connection.
A problem with this would be that it increases performance requirements for both the client and server side, but for the most part, that can probably be alleviated in a multitude of ways.
Of course, if ISPs would update their service regularly, then this would be much less of a problem, but both upgrading and doing this would reduce load on the ISPs and would mean that people get much more out of their connections, so it could be a win-win. We already know that GPUs can be ridiculously fast (especially for the amount ofpower that they use) for this type of thing, so why not make greater use of it? Even lower end GPUs, such as HD 4000 and Llano, could do the trick well enough (although probably not at the same time as gaming, unless dedicated compression hardware is added, like how we are moving towards dedicated hardware for encoding/transcoding, such as Intel's Quick-Sync, Nvidia's NVENC, and hopefully soon, AMD's VCE) and chances are than even weaker GPUs, such as HD 2500, can do it, albeit maybe not as quickly.
Point is, there are ways to both have the ISPs (assholes some of them may be) and the users happy. Problem is, it would take a lot of work. However, many things that take a lot of work are all the more worth doing because of it, yes? Does anyone have any thoughts about any of this?
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