AT&T to limit internet bandwith.

[BobRossi]

If you are an AT&T customer I would consider finding a new provider:

"NEW YORK - AT&T Inc., the country's largest Internet service provider, is testing the idea of limiting the amount of data that subscribers can use each month.

AT&T will initially apply the limits in Reno, Nev., and see about extending the practice elsewhere.

Increasingly, Internet providers across the country are placing such limits on the amount of data users can upload and download each month, as a way to curb a small number of "bandwidth hogs" who use a lot of the network capacity. For instance, 5 percent of AT&T's subscribers take up 50 percent of the capacity, spokesman Michael Coe said Tuesday."

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20081104/ap_on_hi_te/tec_at_t_internet_caps_1

[NashVegas]

1. There's Nothing Wrong With This, As Long As

They're willing to do the same for commercial entities.

[midnight]

2. In Wisconsin they own my phone lines.

[BobRossi]

3. But not the backbone, routers ect.

Check into Speakeasy.net

[Gold Metal Flake]

12. 50 bucks a month for regular DSL?

No thank you, Speakeasy.net!

[laconicsax]

4. Of course they are

It's hard for the NSA to sort through everything. If AT&T limits the amount of content, then the NSA will have an easier time cataloging it all.

[ProdigalJunkMail]

5. yeah... 'cause that's the reason

:crazy:

[RedCappedBandit]

6. Glad they don't get any of my money.

[Romulox]

7. I support this; pay for your own Bit Torrent. nt

[Regret My New Name]

8. Are we going back in time?

This seems sooooo 1990's.

Although, I know someone in Alberta, Canada using Telus and he's always bitching about them bitching about how much bandwidth he is using.

[Sebastian Doyle]

9. Comcast is pulling this same bullshit

Problem is, they're going after the wrong targets. If the stupid sons of bitches would crack down on the massive amounts of SPAM clogging up their servers, they wouldn't have to create artificial hysteria about bit torrents.

Spammers love Comcast, because you technically can have unlimited numbers of e mail accounts. Only 7 active at any given time, but you can delete one and start another instantly. It's probably the same thing with most ISP's actually.

[GetTheRightVote]

10. I do not believe that is the reason, there are others we have yet to know...

:grr::grr::grr::grr::grr::grr:

[Dont_Bogart_the_Pretzel]

11. I guess I won't get that Iphone after all...