Rhort

I feel that most of this is just ISPs whinging about having to actually supply the service people are paying for. Up to now, they've got away with charging people for X megabits of cnx speed, then slapping a 'bandwidth limit' (according to their 'Fair Usage Policy', which is invariably neither fair, nor useful) meaning that if they ever actually got their cnx speed up to max, they could use it for about eight hours a month before they hit their limit.

Now that it's coming to the point where an increasing number of people are actually using their 'bandwidth limit' (which, I must just point out, they DON'T get a rebate on their bill for if they use under this value) to the full, because they're looking at more videos, etc. the ISPs who've had an easy ride of it now (their only hardship having been how to get the wheelbarrow full of money to the bank at the end of the month) are suddenly coming to terms with the fact that more and more people are going to start complaining about these arbitrary restrictions they've thus far got away with enforcing, and it might actually mean they need to invest some of the money they're currently stuffing under their matress in upgrading their cores to give us this 'Information Superhighway' we've been promised for so long.