High-definition video could choke Internet
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If everyone in America started downloading high-definition video would it hurt internet service providers? Most home Internet use is in brief bursts ? an e-mail here, a Web page there. If people start watching streaming video like they watch TV ? for hours at a time ? that puts a strain on the Internet that it wasn’t designed for according to ISPs. Seems like the ISPs are just trying to get more money if you ask me.
As a rough estimate, an always-on, 1 megabit-per-second tap into the Internet backbone in downtown Atlanta, bought wholesale, costs an ISP $10 to $20 a month, according to the research firm TeleGeography Inc. An ISP’s business is carrying data from that tap to the customer.
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