... rate.Another alternative that is again becoming more popular is a ‘‘download limit.’’ Your flatmonthly fee allows you to download up to a certain amount of data, after which additionaldata ... what you want from an ISP,and what the ISPwants. You want a low-cost, high-reliability,high speed connection to the Internet. Youmay also want technical advice and value-added services such as ... up to several megabits per second. Theyuse the cable as a broadcast medium, rather likean Ethernet, and suffer from the same load problems: you share the speed with the other users of the cable....