I think that bandwidth caps may actually encourage piracy and/or casual downloading. If I am near the end of my billing period and I still have several hundred MB before I hit my cap, I am going to download something, anything to make sure that I get every penny's worth. I will let no bit that I pay for go un-used, assuming that I have to live with bandwidth caps.
TW should have known better. No one pays for 15MB/S service and expects to only download 40MB/month! My wife fires up Netflix the way most people turn on the TV and it is not un-usual for her to use more that 40MB in a single day.
I have U-Verse scheduled to be installed later this week and I will be cutting TW's cable very shortly afterwards.
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I think that bandwidth caps may actually encourage piracy and/or casual downloading. If I am near the end of my billing period and I still have several hundred MB before I hit my cap, I am going to download something, anything to make sure that I get every penny's worth. I will let no bit that I pay for go un-used, assuming that I have to live with bandwidth caps. TW should have known better. No one pays for 15MB/S service and expects to only download 40MB/month! My wife fires up Netflix the way most people turn on the TV and it is not un-usual for her to use more that 40MB in a single day. I have U-Verse scheduled to be installed later this week and I will be cutting TW's cable very shortly afterwards.