Not at all. My current price (I live in Rochester) is $30 a month unlimited bandwidth (uncertain about down/up rates but they're good enough for anything I do). Going from unlimited to anything under 250GB+ is unacceptable. I'm probably switching to Comcast or a lesser-known provider if prices are too high.
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I live in Rochester, NY and I am telling you that this is going to back fire big time here. Most people in the area have access to Frontier DSL that offers a 10mbit/s service that is truly unlimited for $35 if you have their phone service (which is also cheaper than the digital phone service). It isn't going to take people long to realize this.
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NO NO NO!!! This is the worst idea ever. Someone pays for the connection they get the connection period. Metered is a very bad idea. They will certainly lose all my business period.
[citation][nom]curnel_d[/nom]Are you using a wireless router? (If so, I'd consider using a more secure crypt)Also your cable modem will track solid facts in the usage department. Compare those results with those of the ISP's, and if there's discrepancy, contact a lawyer.[/citation]
nah, the wireless broadcasting is turned off and locked out in my router. if it was on it would be running on wpa2 (it will be once i add another computer to the home network, which worries me with usage caps up here). so no its not the router, that's the excuse they tried to give me but to this day they still haven't been able to explain such a usage spike. and i've been thinking of switching to an unlimited provider but whenever i cancel with bell i still have to stick with them for another month....terms of service. on a good note though, by trying to cancel with them and repeatedly complaining about the usage spike i was given a bit of a discount on the 60 gig package.
nah, the wireless broadcasting is turned off and locked out in my router. if it was on it would be running on wpa2 (it will be once i add another computer to the home network, which worries me with usage caps up here). so no its not the router, that's the excuse they tried to give me but to this day they still haven't been able to explain such a usage spike. and i've been thinking of switching to an unlimited provider but whenever i cancel with bell i still have to stick with them for another month....terms of service. on a good note though, by trying to cancel with them and repeatedly complaining about the usage spike i was given a bit of a discount on the 60 gig package.
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Tier pricing is being introduced for two reasons only.
The lesser reason is the immediate increase in revenue.
The greater reason is to charge folks for using competitive products.
You want to use (eg) Comcast as your ISP for Vonage at $X/month instead of Comcast's own telephone service for $2X/month? Well, we're going to charge you per gigabyte.
Want to download movies instead of using Comcast on Demand? Well, we're going to charge you per gigabyte.
The BIGGEST joke is Comcast offering BLAST!, a $10/month upgrade that provides speeds up to 20mbs. Too bad you can only use it for 3.5 hours/month given a 250 gb/month cap lol.
The lesser reason is the immediate increase in revenue.
The greater reason is to charge folks for using competitive products.
You want to use (eg) Comcast as your ISP for Vonage at $X/month instead of Comcast's own telephone service for $2X/month? Well, we're going to charge you per gigabyte.
Want to download movies instead of using Comcast on Demand? Well, we're going to charge you per gigabyte.
The BIGGEST joke is Comcast offering BLAST!, a $10/month upgrade that provides speeds up to 20mbs. Too bad you can only use it for 3.5 hours/month given a 250 gb/month cap lol.
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I'm not even using DSL or something more than 56 Kbps[not KBps], so about cap, I think 100 GB is good! no everyone downloads that much per month, cuz if they do, their 1 TB HDD would become full after 10 days of downloading!
[citation][nom]vaskodogama[/nom]I'm not even using DSL or something more than 56 Kbps[not KBps], so about cap, I think 100 GB is good! no everyone downloads that much per month, cuz if they do, their 1 TB HDD would become full after 10 days of downloading![/citation]
You are confused as to what bandwidth means. Watching a MLB baseball game online using the MLB.TV service uses about1.5GB of bandwidth (high definition broadcast) for every 4 hours of video. I watch about four games a week so I am talking about 24GB of bandwidth use just from watching baseball games. Consider the fact that I also watch a lot of television from Hulu, download music from iTunes, stream netflix over the internet, play video games, etc and you can see just how quickly 50GB will be eclipsed.
Anything you do on the internet uses bandwidth. I used 1GB of bandwidth on my iPhone last month and didn't "download" a single tangible item. It goes faster than you think which is why everyone is so appalled at these laughable caps.
You are confused as to what bandwidth means. Watching a MLB baseball game online using the MLB.TV service uses about1.5GB of bandwidth (high definition broadcast) for every 4 hours of video. I watch about four games a week so I am talking about 24GB of bandwidth use just from watching baseball games. Consider the fact that I also watch a lot of television from Hulu, download music from iTunes, stream netflix over the internet, play video games, etc and you can see just how quickly 50GB will be eclipsed.
Anything you do on the internet uses bandwidth. I used 1GB of bandwidth on my iPhone last month and didn't "download" a single tangible item. It goes faster than you think which is why everyone is so appalled at these laughable caps.
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I will pay for consumption of broadband usage, just as soon as TW starts charging for consumption of channels on cable. I have 200+ channels, and I only watch a handful of them on a regular basis, but yet I have to pay for all these BS channels that I would never ever watch because they are part of some package. I think we all know THAT will never happen. So in other words, as soon as TW implements this in socal, I am no longer a customer of theirs. I will switch to Verizon or some other provider without rediculous caps.
By the way, it costs a cable company like Time Warner 3 cents to run a download service for each gigabyte. Please visit Stopthecap.com It's another example of cities that have no competition and this company wants to screw everyone over. The broadband service is already the most profitable component of their business. They continue to fight TV channel selection options and you still pay the same price for tv if you watch a lot or a little. Plus, you have to pay for all the channels you don't watch. Plus, TWC doesnt upgrade and in japan the download speed is at 160mb's. The USA is ranked 14th. An increase of over 400% in a month is robbery. I just ordered a coupon for over the air tv and I will live without the service and then they can go screw themselves. Please tell everyone about stopthecap.com
My torch is STILL lit and the pitchfork STILL sharpened. Of course, the fact is that TW, ComCast & AT&T have had laws passed to give them sole access in certain markets and neighborhoods so there is no free enterprise or true competition. There's a strangehold over most customers in the US. The only alternative is to degrade our capabilities and go to bad but ubiquitous dial-up or DSL.
This makes me so mad. All of the new streaming technologies are starting to get some traction .. i.e. Netflix .. and TW comes out with this.
Where is TW's streaming tech? Maybe if they could figure out a way to be innovative they could figure out a legitimate way to make more money from their customers rather than gouging!
Where is TW's streaming tech? Maybe if they could figure out a way to be innovative they could figure out a legitimate way to make more money from their customers rather than gouging!
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when I was in Japan, NTT OCN fiber optic DSL was rated at 100Mbps...
where I lived, it was tested at 60+Mbps...then recently they had bandwidth cap...30GB a day upstream...
compared to any US ISP, Japan RULEZ!!!!
where I lived, it was tested at 60+Mbps...then recently they had bandwidth cap...30GB a day upstream...
compared to any US ISP, Japan RULEZ!!!!
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Let's be honest: we're a community with a clear bias on this subject. I'm open to the idea of a tier system, though I do feel that Time Warner's current tier proposals are a rip-off. Then again, many media services are overpriced. I wonder how many users here know what their monthly internet data throughput is.
I have always seen big monopoly companies as communist states. They want be soo big that they own the market and tell the customers (people) what they need, want and have to pay for. Just what the communist states do with their population. I think America needs to go back to what it was founded on. Smaller companies that offer their services or products on a sound market where competition actually rules. Today they in reality buy senators and others and call it "lobbying", when the real name for it should be "corruption". Corporate America really sucks!
I think the idea of setting up a fre private personal WiFi Meshes between people in a large city, is the right answer to the greedy ISP. If you got a wireless router, the hardware is already in your hand. It's only a matter of installing the open source software then. WiFi Meshes is going to be big in the near future!
I left TW over a year ago...sick of shared bandwidth, poor customer service, and this bs just fuels my hatred for them...
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