[FOAK] Laptop in France and dialup internet.

Unless of course the ISPs are allowed to properly analyse the customers
data stream and insert lots of ads that'll somehow magically pay for all
of this.

Na, that's just the excuse du jour.

 

yes it does. It doesn't necessarily pay for a massive upgrade to that
infrastructure of the demand for bandwidth goes through the roof. The
UK broadband ISPs have positioned themselves largely on price (rather
than quality or SLAs or whatever), and if their costs rise (they have
to pay someone for /their/ bandwidth) then they either need to pass on
these costs, change their model (i.e. capping) or go bust.

it's not the only culprit, but it's the one that the industry is
citing.

 

My ISP (same as Cab's) is starting to offer fiber, uncapped, too.

 

haha - I was involved in a start-up ISP trying to fund bandwidth
charges through targeted advertising back in 2000. It didn't work
then, and I can't see it working now.

oh, I know.

 

Page babelfished and saved to the laptop.
On a whim I went, against my better judgement, to the local Currys
Digital - where I found an European modem adapter on the shelf for 97p
- at the till they charged me 7p. It seems to have more spikes and
studs than an overpierced youth who looks like they went face first
into a fishing tackle box but certainly includes a French adapter.

Regards,
Martin.

 

Looks like BT are actually trying this. See down there somewhere. Not
exactly a popular move.

 

Several ISPs both here and in the US are looking at this, if what I read
on t'Internet is to be believed.

 

Neither can I, but that won't stop them from trying. It'll just separate
Internet users even more by splitting them into those who are willing to
pay for a decent ad-free service and the flooded-with-ads pikeys who
don't know any better.

I didn't doubt that...

 

It lives, Egor, it lives!
Whilst the craptop is working fine here in France life isn't good -
I'd forgotten how rubbish dialup is. Absolutely no whiff of anything
approaching a wifi signal to use either. Still, online is online
(slowly).

Regards,
Martin.