[jm4]

Just playing devil's advocate here... Is the wireless cap really a bad thing? I have a 2GB cap right now. I still stream music, surf and watch the occasional YouTube video. I haven't gotten close to the cap yet. I pay about as much as I did for "unlimited" and the biggest impact is that I now keep track of how much data I'm using. Yeah, it's annoying. It's easier to have unlimited and not have to think about it. But I also don't want a wireless internet experience that's as slow as molasses because everyone is walking around streaming Netflix day and night or some cheapskate has decided to use his smartphone as his home internet connection. I can deal with caps as long as they are reasonable and periodically adjusted to account for increasing demands of mobile apps and sites.

[alex_c]

>But I also don't want a wireless internet experience that's as slow as molasses because everyone is walking around streaming Netflix day and night or some cheapskate has decided to use his smartphone as his home internet connection.

Do you have any evidence of how common this behavior is or what impact it actually has on the network?

ISPs claim that the vast majority of their users won't be affected by data caps, but they also claim that heavy users significantly degrade performance for everyone. Those two statements usually seem contradictory to me.