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Originally Posted by danramos View Post
Like I said, I don't think that the bandwidth is the problem. I think the caps are the problem. Knowing what I know about networking, backbones, NAP'ss/MAE's and peering arrangements (remember, I used to be a Senior Network Engineer and worked in Silicon Valley for a couple of large ISP's that provided Internet service to the entire US, Canada and Japan when they existed). I know the technical limitations aren't the problem--it's based purely on business case and placation to certain other industries that don't like dumb-pipe Internet providers.
Hahaha.. That's actually what I meant!

As it turns out, I've been using the word bandwidth incorrectly to imply not only the amount data per unit of time, but also amount of data available per month. In a perfect world I suspect that the concepts would be equivalent -- eg. the unit of time extended to one month rather than a second. But as you point out, artificial 'caps' limit available data passed a point regardless of rate and get in the way of such a usage.

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