ISP's try per use fee model

Rant On.

Let me jump on the bandwagon with everyone else right away and say this is BS.

As a network engineer let me go ahead and say this is BS.

My main reason why: Have you ever been charged for how much television you watch? Of coarse not.

I don't think this new per use model will be the end all for ISP's. I also don't see it working at all. I think what it will come down to, and it is already there it's just the speeds are con strewed, is people will pay for the bandwidth to their homes. They will get dedicated access, and the service provider will always be faster than the access.

So in this framework, I decide to pay $50 bucks a month which in the future gets me 5mbps up and down, I get a copper Ethernet hand off from the provider, plug in and I'm good to go.

I don't think it will end up how it is right now where we get this crappy advertised 5mbps down and a few hundred kbps up, which is a joke, and then are based on use. Fact of the matter is ISP's need to get their stuff together and stop using coaxial cable and come up with something better that isn't a shared media.

Rant off.