[H-GEN] ADSL/capping

[bmatthewtaylor at yahoo.co.uk]

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The argument for/against capping showed just how much lobbying power users 
can have when they band together.

umm just realized volume should be unlimited transfers between users on the 
same network. (no external download costs for the ISP) so that part really sux.

What does take my ire tho, is their policy against home networking. I can 
see a reasonable argument for capping volume/bandwidth. (overusing a 
resource to the detriment of other users) But networking? to my mind, any 
internet service is selling bandwidth and capacity on a site connection 
basis only.

It is worth noting the electricity supply industry (far more mature), 
permits (commercial) landlords to resell electricity to tenants.[1] Thus 
the precedent for a supplier not being able to dictate number of users 
within a connection point has already been set. I suspect the laws for this 
were more designed to enable the separation of the electricity generation 
companies from the electricity distribution companies and the creation of 
the competitive electricity industry we have today. (albeit with area based 
monopolies etc.)

I live in hope the ISP industry will mature to this in time, in the interim 
I'll have to hide some stuff when the tech eventually comes to connect me.

[1] this is extremely rare, as far as I know it only is used in large 
commercial tenancy arrangements and is not permitted under the residential 
tenancy act. Even then it is pretty rare, too many disputes, I think 
Westfield tried it at one stage, and put it in the 'too hard basket'.

> > I'm not yet familiar with the ADSL offerings -- what is "the cap
> > debacle"?
>
>That would be when telstra (a few months back now) introduced download
>limiting (capping) to their freedom plan customers.
>
>as a customer, it's pretty unfair, though I don't actually go above the
>threshold myself.  It's been set to 3Gb per month whereas the plan previously
>claimed unlimited downloads, however if you were to read the AUP carefully,
>it's actually an arbitrary limit imposed by Telstra as they feel fit.
>
>Go search Telstra's site for their AUP and have a read.


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