Time Warner Broadband Cap Trial Rescheduled In Texas

jcrousedotcom writes "Time Warner cable apparently has heard that folks aren't too happy with their plan to meter their unlimited connections. From the first paragraph of the article: 'Time Warner Cable's proposed trials of consumption-based billing were originally slated to begin in several markets this summer, where customers would be a part of a tiered pricing scheme. Pricing would have started at 1 GB per month for $15, and go up to 100 GB per month for $75, and include a per-gigabyte overage fee. The public's reaction was less than favorable, and the trials in Texas have been rescheduled.'"

Comments

Re:They can either do it openly or covertly

[oldspewey]

But what about my god-given right to massive unmetered bandwidth without having to pay for it?

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Re:They can either do it openly or covertly

[fm6]

What's wrong with picking d? It just means that at peak times, when your ISP has to process more data than it has bandwidth for, everyone's transfer rate goes down. This happens until those watching streaming video get fed up with the "buffering..."

Excuse me, do you have a full-time job? I'm guessing not. Because people who do only use their home ISP connections during the peak times you mention. That's when we're home from work and want to recreate. What's a major recreational use of the Internet? Streaming media.

That's actually how I watch most broadcast TV these days. I live in an area with lousy reception, I refuse to get cable (not so much the cost as the distraction of 1000 channels of crap), and anyway watching online is much more convenient. If I can only do that at off-peak times, I can't do it at all, and my ISP service loses a lot of value to me. Why should I give that up just so a few heavy-bandwidth users can get a free ride?

Re:They can either do it openly or covertly

[soundguy]

Hi, glad to meet you. Living in a Seattle suburb as I do, I have the options of:

Unbundled DSL from a dozen providers
Verizon DSL
Verizon FIOS (which I have - 20/20)
Comcast broadband
Clearwire WiMax (which I have as a backup - 1.5mbps)
A couple other local WiMax providers - one up to 8mbps
T-mobile Edge/3g (Which I have twice - G1 phone + an Edge laptop card)
ATT wireless broadband
Sprint wireless broadband
Verizon wireless broadband
T-1 at around $250-$350 from a dozen providers

Downtown Seattle has numerous other business options including an infrared inter-building network.

And that's just the one's you have to pay for. In any neighborhood where the houses don't have bars on the windows (and even sometimes if they do) you are never more than 1/4 mile from someone's open Wifi.

I'm sorry, but to those of you who live in the sticks 50 miles outside of Cat Anus, Nebraska and are complaining about not having any broadband choices, MOVE, DUMBASS!