QOTD: How Much Would You Pay for Uncapped Net?

[skit75]

How about we do away with these local cable monopolies all together, bring price competition back into the ballgame and let the market determine a fair price for access?
I would pay whatever I had to in the end I guess, just as I would with my electric/gas/water bills. I use the internet every single day.... for work/hobbies/research/news/socializing. To me, it is just as essential as those other services and come to think of it if I had to choose between warm showers or internet.....I would be taking cold showers so I could pay my gas bill online tbqh.

 

[wavetrex]

Nothing.

Internet should be FREE.

And the bandwidth should be limited only by technology itself, not economical considerations.

 

[randomizer]

I pay $50/month for 25GB peak, 25GB off-peak (which is 1-7am and I don't have my PC on then anyway). I would pay $60/month for unlimited, but preferably on a better connection too. ADSL2+ is too erratic.

 

[geneven]

I already pay TWC about $50 a month and will abandon the company if I start experiencing more unreasonable pressure. TWC already stopped carrying newsgroups without any advance notice to customers, and that rudeness keeps me from thinking of TWC as anything but a necessary evil.

I'm hoping that Verizon or some other company will be available in my area, right near Ventura County in California. In the meantime, TWC was down for several hours this morning, which doesn't increase my loyalty.

 

[deltatux]

uncapped? what I'm payingg right now! CAD$49.95/month!

Heck, TekSavvy has a $39.95/month unlimited I don't see why the bigger companies can't do the same...

 

[Soul_keeper]

I DO pay 4x the price for my business line.
Identical speed as the residential, but no blocked ports or 500MB per day cap.
Getting ripped off is the norm I guess ...

 

[Guest]

I'm already paying ~$60 for 8 Mbps connection with 15 Gb cap down here in Australia - do i need to pay more?

I wish someone make an unlimited plan for us down here.

 

[issar85]

The same price I've been paying for the past two or three years. about 34.99 or 39.99 a month for uncapped high speed internet. These communications companies are just trying to find ways to scalp as much money as they possibly can from the consumer. Time Warner can shove it. This month will be the last time they get my money. Goodbye cable! Hello DSL and satellite!

 

[sunny321]

no more than CAD$50 for uncapped
but this topic is quite tricky, what if they degrade the speed with uncapped ?

 

[Guest]

Here in Sweden there is no such thing as a capped connection (except for some mobile plans), noone would even consider switching to one as we have a working market economy and most people can choose from 10-20 ISPs.
City networks with multiple ISPs offering 10/10, 30/30, 100/10 and 100/100 speeds started appearing in the late nineties and are becoming prevalent throughout the country.
I have a 30/30 connection that i pay about 25 euro a month for, and a 3G connection at 7.2/0.5 (capped at 1GB/month, after which it is throttled to 384kbit) that i pay about 8 euro/month for.
I'm pretty satisfied with this... no downtimes and full speeds almost always.

 

[Guest]

Lornelin: But you live in Sweden, the paradise for IT in Europe ... here in Spain the average connection is ADSL 6000/300 kbps at 39.95 EUR + VAT = 46.34 EUR (61.42 USD) ... some people cannot even get 3 Mbps at the same price.

 

[elektrip]

What is capped here? Bandwidth or volume? I pay around 65$ (75 Swiss Francs) for 25/2.5 Mbit, no volume limit. I'd pay 150$ for an "uncapped" gigabit wire-speed fibre connection...

 

[xeensd]

I might be mistaken, but isn't the speed "limit" itself a cap?
If I pay for 3mps i can only download 3*(whatever) a month?
This surely is a step back I remembered tiered dial-up
(AOL anyone) step back instead of forward.

I pay $65 for charter 20down/2up. As one of the earlier posters said;
I would love to have a higher upload speed, (2 remote accessible servers). I would not pay more for uncapped unless it had a significant increase in speed (say FIOS levels 100/20)

 

[deadlymunkywrench]

$50-60 for me. People should realize that if they share the broadband connection with say room mates that they could go over the cap as a group. Since most people that get broadband at home share a single ip address with everyone else in that household.

 

[Guest]

As currently pay with Optimum Online Boost: $50/month, min 30Mb/s download (I even saw 47Mb/s once) about 5Mb/s upload, uncapped. And it never drops connection (as others experienced).

I am totally against monopolistic companies - this is what allows them to make these outrageous capped propositions. I would be all for a $0.05/GB flat fee, and no other fee.

 

[T-Bone]

WTF is uncapped? This is ridiculous. They all have a max speed and so are capped at some point or another. Who wrote the article...oh yeah, never mind.

 

[WingedRayeth]

I might be mistaken, but isn't the speed "limit" itself a cap?
If I pay for 3mps i can only download 3*(whatever) a month?
This surely is a step back I remembered tiered dial-up
(AOL anyone) step back instead of forward.

Actually not as strict of one as you think. At 3mb/s you could ownload about 7.8 terrabits in 30 days. At 20 mb/s you could pull in ~51.8 which I doubt you have the space for even if you are a major pirate.

And T-Bone, Uncapped should be read as the ability to download as much data as your speed will allow in a given month.

In the case of our hypothetical friend on the 20 mb/s connection, he would be able to download 207 times more data than Comcast will allow. And our 3 mb/s friend should be allowed to download 31 times the 250 gb limit.

 

[Wgfalcon]

i'm paying $89 for 1.5 mb service capped at 17 gb through wild blue with no other options. so $50 or $60 for an uncapped 3 gb service, right now hell yeah

 

[-unknown-]

There is already a plethora of responses but I'll had mine to the sea.

Personally, I don't agree with any bandwith cap as it doesn't make any logical sense to pay for a 'limit' when other mediums don't have one. Is there a cap on how much CableTV you watch? Is there a cap on how much I use my landline? Is there a cap on Satellite TV? No, so then why would it matter when it comes to ISPs other than the Internet being a newer beast that is growing continually (compared to Cable or Telephone).

There are people who watch TV on weekends only and others that watch 4-5 hours every day, does that mean those heavy users should pay for watching in excess of the others? Short answer is no (IMO), you just opt for the selection you want, quantity shouldn't be at question as you don't refund me any money for what I don't use/consume.

 

[Guest]

I don’t know what you people are complaining about you should try paying $50, us dollars for 128kb connection in SURINAME {that’s our cheapest connection}
And around $300 for the 1Mb connection so quit complaining it can always get worse.

 

[rooket]

$30/mo would be fine. People are paying $20-$30 in other countries. Right now I'm getting "up to 12 megabit" I haven't seen it jump above 7 megabit in several months. And it is expensive.

 

[voodooaddict]

I'd pay $15 over the speed grade cost.

 

[javaskull]

No more than I pay now. I fact less and less as the days roll by. What, pay for common knowledge? How dare they?

-G

 

[Guest]

Nothing, unless it is world class fast!
Then $35-40 / month would be reasonable.

 

[ik242]

i just found out that i am paying $60/mo for capped (wife pays the bills), well that is what we have been paying until end of this month. i am switching to another ISP today. the new ISP is which is only 1mbps slower but uncapped and $18/mo. paying over $30/mo is ridiculous for speeds below 20mbps.