Users in our Cable One forum point out that the cable operator is tinkering with some of their speeds, adding a 12 Mbps downstream, 1.5 Mbps upstream plan to their lineup. In a sign they're falling a bit behind the times, CableOne's previously fastest tier was 10 Mbps downstream 1 Mbps upstream. The company also offers 1.5, 3 5, 8 and 10 Mbps tiers. Perhaps more interesting is the fact that CableOne is tinkering with their already odd caps.

The carrier has always employed a unique capping system that restricts how much bandwidth users can use at certain times of the day. CableOne's new speed and cap list is anything but clear, listing both "extended speeds" and "standard speeds" (usually half of extended speeds), before noting that users are capped during different times of the day.

According to the odd spreadsheet, overall usage is measured from noon to midnight. However, the sheet also defines a "period of standard speed" that operates from 4 PM to midnight.

CableOne, the cable provider infamous for its noon-to-midnight caps, has raised its residential speeds and reworked its capping policy. On the good news side, their business tiers (topping out at 10 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up, with an 8/1 plan for the faint of wallet and an 8/2 plan for the in-between) are ostensibly cap-free now.

Back in November, NebuAD and several of the ISPs who were doing business with them (Embarq, WOW, Centurytel and Cable One) were sued over their plan to sell subscriber browsing histories without giving customers a functional opt-out mechanism. As we've stated in the past, NebuAD's system opted users out of receiving the system's targeted ads, but it didn't opt them out of data collection and sales.

CableOne customers who just saw their broadband tier rates go up in September are about to see another increase in the company’s cable prices. CableOne says that this is their first television rate increase in several years and that it’s necessary due to the increased cost of programming.

Earlier this year Arizona-based Cable One launched new bandwidth caps, and then imposed a rate hike on customers. This week they're informing them that the free (albeit limited) newsgroup service they've provided customers will be discontinued as of December 31. The alert sends users to a handful of free alternative services. "Their recent caps, frequent service outages, and incessant rate hikes are the antithesis of a customer-oriented company," complains a user in our forums.

The CEO for Arizona-based Cable One greets users to the company's website by insisting the company wants to be "America's Best Cable Company." They've decided to accomplish this goal by implementing tougher usage caps for broadband customers. Their website still uses the word "unlimited" when discussing their broadband service.Customers are allocated a certain amount of bandwidth to from noon until midnight.