SMS <scharf.steven@geemail.com> wrote in news:4dc1a468$0$22125
$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net:

> AT&T is now implementing the capped bandwidth for broadband and DSL
> customers that they announced a few months ago:
>
> http://money.cnn.com/2011/05/03/tech...caps/index.htm
>
> I wonder how this will affect the increasing number of businesses and
> other entities that offer free wi-fi.
>
> It may be time to implement traffic shaping. At the very least I'd set
> up the routers to 802.11b only to slow access and discourage the
> downloading of huge video files.
>

802.11b is 11Mbps. Hardly throttling the pinholes sold as DSl broadband.