Originally Posted by Steve M

Not to criticize you in particular Pinky, but I think part of the problem must be too many people using bandwidth-hogging applications like streaming video. What's frustrating is when the connection is so slow as to be unusable even for small tasks like checking email or basic web surfing. I wonder if they could solve the problem by installing smarter access points that were able to throttle back the bandwidth used by hogs when the upstream connection gets saturated. This could end up being far cheaper than increasing bandwidth overall and would solve the problem for most people. It might actually end up with a better solution for most people.