"Besides, my God people, 100 Gig a month???? What the heck are you all downloading? There isn't that much content out there that is WORTH download in the first place"...

That is the word of an anonymous off the record source that we have no way to verify is the official policy, that he even works there (and even if he does that he is in a position to know)...etc

I sincerely doubt 100 Gig is their limit. I wouldn't be shocked to learn it was 1/2 to 1/3 of that, or maybe even 1/4 of it.

In which case, downloading a couple DVD's ...or the equivalent length in video -- would exceed that. I do know people that rent movies/pay per view online. I don't, I only have a rather slow DSL and it takes too long, but if I had 4X the bandwidth on the downstream-- it wouldn't be an issue. 6Mbps DSL is available here for not awful rates. Can't even get that from the cable company here. The cable company is more expensive as well for their max connection, and with a cap on it, what is the point of it?

For those customers, they should at least offer a business class package that allows them the useage they need, even if it is at a slightly steeper rate.

I've noticed a lot of ISP's (even dialups) haven't consulted what the term unlimited actually means. One in my area cuts people off after 300 hours in any month. These are people paying for unlimited dialup. Now I admit, 10 hours a day might seem excessive, but if you ever tried to pull a couple ISO's down off of a dialup connection -- you just let it run when you go to sleep -- it's not hard to see scenarios where people could use it that much.

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