1024 bytes = 1kB, 1024 kB = 1mB, 1024 mB = 1gB

Where’s my non- $1.99 per channel A-la-carte package? ;(

EDIT: Battlestar Galactica is also a great show

EDIT2: I see SciFi/SyFy changed their name due to marketing and the ability to trademark the channel name. Figures.

EDIT 3 lol: I did forget to mention that I have some Stargate addons installed in Garry’s Mod, as well as some Stargate mods for Half-life 2 installed. I’m hoping they make a CryEngine 2/CryEngine 3 Stargate mod someday such as how there’s a CryEngine 2 Battlestar Galactica mod currently being made which I will be installing It’s always fun stepping through the gate in a video game, especially when the mod makers have a fully functional DHD, high quality textured game with the ripple effect, ZPMs, shield generators, puddle jumpers, drones, maps of Atlantis (!), the SG-1 base, etc. I’ll upload screenshots or videos if you’d like to see them. They’re quite amazing when it comes down to it. Name anything, and I can probably spawn it/screenshot it/record it.

I’ve begun watching Stargate SG-1 again on Hulu, and I finally got around to catching up with the missed episodes of Stargate Atlantis on there as well. I find that each episode in 420p H.264 takes up at least 350MB per episode. If there are any in HD, each would certainly be over a gigabyte. Just wait until Stargate Universe starts airing sometime very soon

My DSL lines are nearing 300GB of usage this month combined, the Frontier line having much of that usage on it.

Satellite is the Gitmo of broadband. Yet many rural Americans are imprisoned with that being their only option.

Verizon will probably grandfather in your existing Alltel plan. The only restriction will be you are stuck with the same basic features within the scope of that plan. If you change anything major, you can lose that plan forever.

I am grandfathered on the America’s Choice plan here because it doesn’t bundle as much junk I don’t need or want as their current plans do. I can keep renewing it every two years, too.

I just completed a focus group online about wireless data plans. I was thrown perhaps 50 options and said “not interested” on every last one because they combined high pricing with low caps. When asked why I was not interested, I told them.

As to Net Neutrality, I don’t understand this Google conspiracy theory stuff. Google is not the primary proponent of Net Neutrality.

I never had a problem with targeted advertising cookies because it’s not like there is some evildoer sitting there watching me. I have ad blindness most of the time anyway. Advertising, if it means I get it for free, doesn’t bother me either.

Google pays the freight to host their enormous website(s). They’ve paid the bill. We pay our ISP bill in order to access those and other web services. Why do ISPs feel justified in asking Google to pay for what we are already paying for? It’s not like they are talking about splitting our bill in half to split the difference. They just want to charge us the same amount, and also charge content producers, and pocket the proceeds.

Google’s dominance in search comes only from the fact they have a useful service. I remember starting with Yahoo, moving to Alta Vista because they did better, and then to Google who did better than them. If someone comes up with better search results with less spam and search result manipulation, I’ll use them.

We never use peer to peer here (I have a newsgroup subscription with Giganews but really don’t have time to use it much). No Netflix or anything like that because I don’t have time to watch much television either.

Now add kids into the equation and you can get past 200GB easily without torrents.

My father probably would be the 5-10GB user… he looks at web pages, e-mail, and some online video, but most of his usage comes from Mozy Backup.

It’s generational and also dependent on how much you know about what’s available on the web. The more you know, the more you are likely to use.

Google can only do so much, if the isps which are essentially regional duopolies with an occasional overbuilder do not cooperate it is the end of the line.

The isps/wireless telco are terrified of net neutrality, with net neutrality people may be able to simply subscribe to a data service and use a voip service instead of paying for cell phone service.

The FCC needs to take net neutrality to the next step, they should force companies like Comcast and Charter to count their on demand bandwidth and voip bandwidth if they can count their competitors vonage and directv on demand bandwidth against their cap.

So until American consumers start to care of course the corporations are going to try to get away with as much as possible. Hopefully there will be a breaking point in the future where consumers will force their congressmen to create some type of regulation, otherwise look to Canada to see our Future.

Two years on Wildblue taught me a harsh lesson about caps. I started with 10G a month and we did OK with an occasional throttle, but once they lopped 2.5G off the cap it was insane. There are four of us in the house including two teenagers. I got sick to death of being the “FAP Cop” — nagging not to use YouTube, no downloads over 25MB, unplugging the router, unplugging the modem at night, blocking email that could possibly contain photos or have video attachments. Its a full time job with NO rewards other than a headache! The $70 per month price and the terrible latency that prevented some websites from not loading made it not worth it.

Right now I’m with Alltel and dreading the final merger with Verizon. I use their aircard, pay $60 a month with minimal latency and NO *@(#&$ cap. We can live without blazing speeds but Verizon’s 5G cap isn’t worth it. I’ll maintain my grandfathered Alltel contract as long as I can but unless an alternative such as WiMax comes through, we’re looking at a life of coffee shop browsing and library lurching.

Am I last mile, middle mile or underserved? It doesn’t matter, but it irks me to hear complaints from those with +10Mb down with high or no caps at less than $50 a month. I’m not asking for the moon or stars, just reasonable ISP coverage at a down-to-earth price.