Cable companies and you.

I have heard from several of my friends that certain cable companies are trying to throttle people's connections.  This isn't a recent thing, as companies have tried this in the past.  However, it seems to be that there is a recent push from ALL the internet providers to "Throttle" people's bandwidth.

Of course this was tried on the past.  And it was universally shot down by people switching to carriers who did not throttle their bandwidth.  This sent a message to internet providers that we would not accept any bandwidth less than we paid for.

Enter the new era.  Since some internet providers have been able to survive even though they throttled their users bandwidth, the major carriers think they can do it to.

Normally this would be tried by a few carriers, and the public would express their displeasure with this by moving to another ISP.

Unfortunately, by tacit understanding all major ISP's are adopting this policy.  They are doing this for the sake of profit, and our implied bandwidth be damned.

Who would in this day and age subscribe to a service who would limit their bandwidth?  The answer is: only people who had no other option.

-Cryptotich, Out