{"id":6343,"date":"2008-01-22T20:29:31","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T20:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/internet-buffet-closed.html"},"modified":"2008-01-22T20:29:31","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T20:29:31","slug":"internet-buffet-closed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/technology\/internet-buffet-closed.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Buffet Closed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Galitzine heads up the editorial team at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tmcnet.com\">TMCnet <\/a>and recently he and I were discussing the all you can eat internet and how it may soon be gone. During our talk, I had trouble seeing why this is different than what I deal with today. If I want super fast internet access I pay my cable provider more.<\/p>\n<p>Seems to me that an all you can eat service allows people who don&#8217;t need lots of bandwidth to save some money and others who download 24&#215;7 can decide to&nbsp; pay and get the best service available. I by the way pay for the top speed from Optimum Online and don&#8217;t necessarily feel robbed.<\/p>\n<p>One point worth mentioning however is companies like Cablevision will put a limiter on users who download more than what they deem appropriate. This limiter basically slows the service to speeds just above ISDN.<\/p>\n<p>Greg has the second in a series of <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/greg-galitzine\/voip\/death-of-the-all-you-can-eat-internet-continued.html\">posts <\/a>on all-you-can-eat Internet which is worth a read. One issue mentioned in his post is that wireless competitors will soon be on the scene giving us more choice. I need to be convinced that this is the case as I have heard from more than one source that WiMAX upload speeds may be less than stellar in some cases.<\/p>\n<p>If you want more on this topic, Greg is at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itexpo.com\">ITEXPO <\/a>all week here in Miami and will be happy to share his lucid thoughts on the matter. You know, the stuff that is too strong for the open net. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/mtstatic\/FCKeditor\/emoticons\/wink_smile.gif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greg Galitzine heads up the editorial team at TMCnet and recently he and I were discussing the all you can eat internet and how it may soon be gone. During our talk, I had trouble seeing why this is different than what I deal with today. If I want super fast internet access I pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[171,163,199,188,198,118,190,191,219,175],"tags":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}