Karen Challinor

UK

staring at clouds

here's a suggestion

1 - you buy an 'up to' certain speed package which sets a cap price
2 - the line speed is constantly monitored by the ISP and you pay that fraction of the cap price that you actually get

so if you have an 'up to' 8Mb package and you only receive an average of 4Mb over a month then you pay 50% for that month

the ISP's would have engineers on overtime trying to get every last bit per second out of your line

although ADSL users would still be a bit stuffed as the last mile of copper, owned by BT, will always be a limiting factor until it's replaced by fibre, and thanks largely to the fact that OFCOM would make BT effectively give away any fibre they do install to third parties BT aren't in any hurry to do this