4/2/2009 11:57:14 PM
a phenomenon which will only become more common
4/2/2009 11:58:13 PM
how dare you be held accountable for the bandwith you use!it makes perfect sense for a company to jettison the high-bandwith users, or at least make them cover their share of usage.no such thing as a free lunch, EVEN HULU OR NETFLIX!!!!!!!!1111111111[Edited on April 2, 2009 at 11:59 PM. Reason : .]
4/2/2009 11:58:54 PM
at least for one month, until customers get smacked with a $600 cable bill.
4/2/2009 11:59:45 PM
their addressing a symptom not a problem. this is something that will become increasingly more common, and what appears to be an individual outlier currently will sooner or later be the status quo.
4/3/2009 12:00:02 AM
which is why they are preparing for the new status quo by instituting pricing structures now that will more accurately reflect the service they will be providing when that status quo arrives.
4/3/2009 12:00:52 AM
I don't doubt the trends, but the people using Hulu/Netflix/downloading ISOs of Xbox 360 games/bluray rips/etc are still the outliers for now. TW is just making them someone else's problem, and really--what loyalty do you think these type of people have anyway?
4/3/2009 12:02:00 AM
it makes perfect sense until you realizing that they're not offering a reduction in cost for people who use minimal bandwidth. All they're proposing is additional costs for the bigger users, even though their price structure had already taken these bigger users into account in past pricing schemes.Also, 40GB ain't shit. AT&T and Comcast are offering 150gb and 250gb, respectively.
4/3/2009 12:03:59 AM
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4/3/2009 12:09:58 AM
LINUX ISOS
4/3/2009 12:10:41 AM
i dunno. figured i'd throw you assholes a plausible reason for using gigabytes of bandwidth.... but we all know ur just pirating shit anyway.
4/3/2009 12:12:20 AM
at least i dont watch many videos
4/3/2009 12:14:45 AM
At least I don't have TWC
4/3/2009 12:15:28 AM
Sucks if you have multiple roommates.
4/3/2009 12:25:46 AM
cuz then you'd have to divide $1 by 4.simple math ftw
4/3/2009 12:28:56 AM
it's just funny how TWC wants to go backwards from the rest of the world in south korea, you can get gigabit connections to your ISP. most people in the US don't have gigabit networking in their homes, let alone to the mothership
4/3/2009 12:41:19 AM
Internet gaming is serious business in Korea.
4/3/2009 12:42:10 AM
damn this really sucks for ppl in the triad...5gb aint shit
4/3/2009 12:43:23 AM
So... I'll take an average packet size of say, .001MB (roughly 1024 bytes). Extrapolate out from my current network usage that puts me at (on 30 day time frame)13572.75MB upstream23490.26MB downstream-------------------------37063.01MB totalThat's just from normal browsing... no HD videos or anything out of the ordinary. I haven't had any contracts to develop for this month either, so no huge file uploads to the server. One good video project can push 100GB, and that all has to filter through the server for backup... 40GB is stupid.It's been mentioned many times in other places about this, but going in on a business class connection is not a bad deal from TWC if you live in an area where 2-3 dwellings can piggy back. When I lived in a town house we did that. Had a fast connection and had a router that would quota the neighbors internet use (they were paying ~25% of the bill). They were just browsers and never even came close to the monthly quota. With their portion it worked out to be just a few dollars more than the standard roadrunner and we got the business support when things were not clicking instead of the 45 minute wait on the consumer lines.
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4/3/2009 2:48:27 AM
last
4/3/2009 2:49:43 AM
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4/3/2009 3:25:38 AM
Are they also improving their infrastructure or just screwing over their customers?
4/3/2009 4:40:52 AM
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4/3/2009 9:57:37 AM
noone can do whatever he wants to
4/3/2009 9:58:06 AM
THAT'S IT I'M STARTING AN ISPSEND ME YOUR DEPOSITS
4/3/2009 10:23:55 AM
CHECK SENT!
4/3/2009 10:30:28 AM