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Old 06-29-2010, 07:20 PM
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Re: Anyone else think WiFi hotspot should be free...

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Originally Posted by Success100 View Post
i completely understand the logic behind the $30 fee. Your letting up to 8 people use your connection, which means potentially 8x the data transfer.
This is actually not accurate. 8x users divides your bandwidth across all 8 evenly. In other words, if each user was running a download at the same time, it would be 8 times slower for each person vs. the speed just one would experience. You do not get 8x the speed. In reality, each user processes a web request and staggered moments and the perception of bandwidth reduction is not there. But.... you still have a maximum cosumption rate that applies whether you are 1 user or 8 users.
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