Re:What they *should* have done (Score 1)

At my college (U of I in Urbana-Champ.) in my dorm they cap us at 750 megs down and 250 megs up. This is rather limiting to us, but it IS pretty fair. We can download an ISO in a day, or even a movie + some change. We have enough upload capacity to run a half life server for a few hours. And if we DO break the limit, we get cut off until 8 am the next morning. And they even lock our mac addresses so we can't steal our roomates port (well without the wonders of linux and ifconfig). This may sound like a BAD limit, but I am glad it is there. Before - we were lucky to get 5KB/sec, due to about a dozen users using 5-10 gigs a day for warez. However - on a residential service where I pay $50 a month (vs $150 for the year here) I would dam well drop the service the day they told me how much I could download. If possible, I will get DSL in the future to avoid the pesky @home upload cap. It is not enjoyable uploading 50 megs to my web server at 128kbps.