Kolchak: The Night Stalker

[Skuzzy]

Bandwidth costs money GS.  An ISP lives or dies by managing the average bandwidth per customer.  If the average gets too high, the ISP makes less, or loses money.

ISP bandwidth is very expensive.  Figure about $3,000 a month for 3Mb/s of bandwidth on average.  If the same number of clients all of a sudden use up 6Mb/s of bandwidth, the ISP pays more and so on.

Commercial accounts (like HTC's) work the same way.  The more bandwidth you use, the more you pay.

[wombatt]

Well Skuzzy that must be the reason why the brainiac's at comedy cast cable farmed out there newsgroups to giganews.

yeppers what used to be free unlimited new groups now will cost you for any usage over 2 gig per month.

[Skuzzy]

Consumers in the U.S. are spoiled rotten GS.  There is no way they will pay for bandwidth used.

One day the infrastructure of the Internet here in the U.S. is going to collapse due to lack of money to continue to maintain/grow it.  Apathy will insure everyone will continue to ignore the problem, until it is too late.
I hope that prediction is wrong, but we are already a good ways down that path.

[rpm]

Skuzzy, I think bandwith is the new long distance for telecoms. Remember when it cost you $3 a minute to call Dallas from Ft. Worth? In reality it was $2.99 a minute profit for Ma Bell.

[genozaur]

Originally posted by SunKing
As a kid this was one of the greatest late night series on TV.

SciFi is running a mini marathon right now!

Was the guy related to Admiral Kolchak, The Supreme Ruler of Russia ?