Time Warner Cable to Test Tiered Bandwidth Caps

I Don't Believe in Imaginary Property writes "According to a leaked internal memo, Time Warner Cable is testing out tiered bandwidth caps in their Beaumont, TX division as a way to fairly balance the needs of heavy users against the limited amount of shared bandwidth cable can provide. The plan is to offer various service tiers with bandwidth fees for overuse, as well as a bandwidth meter customers can use to help them stay within their allotment. If it works out, they will consider a nation-wide rollout. Interestingly, the memo also claims that 5% of subscribers use over 50% of the total network bandwidth."

Comments

Bandwidth everywhere

[iliketrash]

Once again, BANDWIDTH DOES NOT EQUAL CAPACITY. BANDWIDTH DOES NOT EQUAL BITS. Bandwidth is a measure of a channel's range of frequencies over which it is effective. A bit is an amount of information. Capacity is the rate at which a channel can transfer information. Channel capacity is a function of bandwidth and signal to noise ratio.

Claude Shannon, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, University of Illinois Press, 1949.

Re:A new approach to limiting usage is needed

[Kjella]

So while we're distributing blame here... who's more expensive, the leeches or the morons? (not that they're mutually exclusive)