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Charter Cable Capping Usage Nationwide This Month
An anonymous reader writes with this snippet from DSL Reports, with possible bad news for Charter customers who live outside the test areas for the bandwidth caps the company's been playing with: "Yesterday we cited an anonymous insider at Charter who informed us that the company would very soon be implementing new caps. Today, Charter's Eric Ketzer confirmed the plans, and informed us that Charter's new, $140 60Mbps tier will not have any limitations. Speeds of 15Mbps or slower will have a 100GB monthly cap, while 15-25Mbps speeds will have a 250GB monthly cap. 'In order to continue providing the best possible experience for our Internet customers, later this month we will be updating our Acceptable Use Policy (AUP) to establish monthly residential bandwidth consumption thresholds,' Ketzer confirms. 'More than 99% of our customers will not be affected by our updated policy, as they consume far less bandwidth than the threshold allows,' he says." But if they're lucky, customers will be able to hit that cap quickly.
It started as "RTFA".
Then it became "RTFS".
Now it's "The Editor Should RTFS".
Sheesh.
This just in, Charter Cable customers are capping monthly cash payments made to Charter Cable.
Welcome to America comrade, here is your jar of Vaseline. You are gonna need it.
---- Booth was a patriot ----
They should put that in the ads. "You get 30 times less bandwidth than you could if we weren't just a pack of evil dicks! Buy now!"
Thats why I use the 1024kbit/384kbit option from comcast. I would only reach the cap if I download ~25 days straight.
New slashdot layout sucks.
You blow 1 hour a day on bathroom time getting ready for work, fixing food, etc.
Last I checked, only Kramer fixed his food in the bathroom... in the shower specifically.
Google is your friend! And it just wants to help! Perhaps Google could recommend an appropriate reeducation center to help you see that Google is just there to serve you...
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
Absolutely - - - - as long as they stop advertising all plans below 60mbs as "unlimited".
I suspect this is a myth that's being perpetuated by self-righteous nerds. I'm sure there are exceptions, and I'd be happy to be proven wrong, but I haven't seen any such advertising in a LONG time.
Anyone reading Slashdot and who hasn't been living in a cave knows that your cable connection doesn't entitle you to saturate that connection 24/7. Less-technical users MIGHT be more easily mislead, but they're also not the ones torrenting fifty porn DVD ISOs -- oops, I mean Linux distros every day.
So who are these much-talked-about innocent people who have been defrauded?