http://www.voxexmachina.com/news/att-snubs-gamers-calls-gaming-an-ancillary-service-of-broadband/ Video Games Have A Voice Sat, 11 Feb 2012 17:09:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.voxexmachina.com/news/att-snubs-gamers-calls-gaming-an-ancillary-service-of-broadband/comment-page-1/#comment-1670 Isky Mon, 02 Nov 2009 01:32:41 +0000 http://www.voxexmachina.com/news/att-snubs-gamers-calls-gaming-an-ancillary-service-of-broadband/#comment-1670 I really appreciate being on wireless internet from .. of all names.. Skynet. They provide me a range of speeds I'm going to get for $50 per month. Because of some difficulties in where I live, most prominent being my huge barn, I typically get slower than average at 1.5-2mbps down and 512kbps up. Sometimes I get more. I rarely get less. I can run servers, download huge files, anything I want. The caveat is that I'm not supposed to go over 10G of transfer per month. However, if I don't do it often, they let that slide as well - as long as I'm not causing problems for other users in my area. This is the benefit to having a small local provider that even makes its own equipment. They are more willing to look at individual situations than just enforce a set of rules with no allowances. And, I get better service than what the big companies offer, and now want to restrict based on type of download and upload. It's ridiculous. I completely agree with Helvetica. Bandwidth is bandwidth. How I use it should be up to me, not them, as long as it's not something illegal like child porn. I really appreciate being on wireless internet from .. of all names.. Skynet. They provide me a range of speeds I’m going to get for $50 per month. Because of some difficulties in where I live, most prominent being my huge barn, I typically get slower than average at 1.5-2mbps down and 512kbps up. Sometimes I get more. I rarely get less. I can run servers, download huge files, anything I want. The caveat is that I’m not supposed to go over 10G of transfer per month. However, if I don’t do it often, they let that slide as well – as long as I’m not causing problems for other users in my area.
This is the benefit to having a small local provider that even makes its own equipment. They are more willing to look at individual situations than just enforce a set of rules with no allowances.
And, I get better service than what the big companies offer, and now want to restrict based on type of download and upload. It’s ridiculous.
I completely agree with Helvetica. Bandwidth is bandwidth. How I use it should be up to me, not them, as long as it’s not something illegal like child porn.

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