russotto
join:2000-10-05
Collegeville, PA |  A bit pricey for cable.
$99.95/month? Could get Speakeasy DSL 1.5/768 for that, and not have to deal with invisible bandwidth limits, port blocking, NAT restriction, and similar nonsense. |
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vic102482
Premium
join:2002-04-30
Upper Marlboro, MD | Bandwith caps SUCK. If they can deal with the users then dont over suscribe the network. |
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs:
| Bright House Networks.
This is a little OT but isn't Time Warner Cable no longer Time Warner Cable and now Bright House Networks. That's what the commercials here in Florida are advertising.
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evagilon
join:2003-01-10
Imperial Beach, CA | reply to russotto
Re: A bit pricey for cable.
But for how much longer? I'm sure your prices will jump soon. |
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH | reply to Maxo
Re: Bright House Networks.
Not in (Western) Ohio. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO
| reply to evagilon
Re: A bit pricey for cable.
Why is it ALWAYS the assumption that prices will rise?
Prices should fall. Does the fiber get rusty with age? Does it pass less data the older it gets? Usually technology marches forward enabling faster and faster throughput while costs continue to drop.
At one time 9600bps over dialup was beyond belief. 56K was astonishing. Now our broadband connections are delivering data across the country at speeds faster than the original IBM PC's MFM fixed disk.
Tomorrow we'll laugh at 1Mbps. We'll be complaining because it our $50/month service is capped at 100Mbps or 1GBps. Of course the average web page will contain 10 megs of pictures that need to transfer to our computers in under a second to make the web experience pleasant. I fully expect half or even a majority of that the size to be ad related. |
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ArchAngel21x
MacFan Pro
Premium
join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE
 ·Internet Nebraska
| Hasn't Happened To Me Yet....
I don't know how much bandwidth I use in a month, but I only have one computer hooked up the my connection. Ever since I heard of this I turned on file sharing programs off too.
If worse comes to worse and they send a letter like that to me, I will just switch to the lowest business class tier. It is still about $10 cheaper than Road Runner Extreme, and I really don't need 3 meg down.
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J D McDorce
Premium
join:2001-12-29
Westland, MI
| reply to Maxo
Re: Bright House Networks.
said by »www.freep.com/money/tech/mwend14···314.htm:
Some 2.1 million subscribers of Time Warner Cable in parts of Michigan, Florida, Alabama, Indiana and California will soon make their monthly checks out to Bright House Networks.
That's the new name for Time Warner cable operations that were taken over by Advance/Newhouse, a privately owned newspaper and magazine chain. The change takes effect April 1.
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Freezone
join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI | reply to ArchAngel21x
Re: Hasn't Happened To Me Yet....
Any worldcom provided DSl is better. 40 gigs is a lot, but even so know it is there is not a good feeling. Guess DSL is winning the DSl Cable debate. Ecept for those people with crappy service and who can not get it. |
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namek581
join:2001-12-22
Austin, TX | reply to Maxo
Re: Bright House Networks.
Advance/Newhouse (division of Bright House) took over Roadrunner's (and Time Warner Cable) activities in Tampa and the rest of Florida I do believe. |
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IAmTheEvilest
There Is Nothing Like A Restart
join:2001-01-03
Santa Barbara, CA
clubs:
| reply to rradina
Re: A bit pricey for cable.
Although fiber does not get rusty, it has a tendency to expand and contract. Sometimes, that can cause problems with data transfer. It is also a bit more prone to breakage than copper, and is more difficult to fix.
Not only that, components made for fiber networks have not been tested for a extended period of time, so we cannot yet determine the longevity of fiber.
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Maxo
Your tax dollars at work.
Premium,VIP
join:2002-11-04
Tallahassee, FL
clubs: | reply to namek581
Re: Bright House Networks.
Oh, that makes sense. Thanks. |
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rds24a
Teach Your Children
Premium
join:2000-12-13
Springboro, OH
clubs:
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| Not all of Ohio, I suppose
There is no indication from TWC Western Ohio that there is any such "Extreme" offering yet. Most ISP's are rewording their information to say "always on, no hourly charges" instead of "unlimited," although the exact wording on www.timewarnerohio.com is "always-on connection with unlimited, instant access." The www.roadrunnerohio.com does not use the word "unlimited" any more, and I sure everything is superceded by the terms and conditions.
This isn't that much different from the days when dial-up access providers started putting in idle timeouts and connection time limits in order to free up their modem pool. The biggest problem with bandwidth monitoring is that most users don't always have complete control of everything coming across their connection. I doubt anyone runs up 5 GB/mo worth of spam, however. Unfortunately, from my web hosting experiences, the bandwidth monitors themselves tend to be flakey, and I don't believe RR is offering any sort of user-accessible meter as a part of their caps.
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Speedy8
Premium
join:2002-08-22
Alliance, OH
clubs:
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"always-on connection with unlimited, instant access."
What's funny about that is RR claims on some site that "unlimited" means "always-on". Yeah right, they are just trying to mislead you. Other wise why would they use that phrase? If unlimited means always-on we can change it to "always-on connection with always-on, instant access."
Sure doesn't seem like that is what they are trying to imply to me. They are trying to make it sound like "unlimited" when it isn't. |
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kyle1745
join:2003-05-01
| SOMEONE PLEASE STOP THEM NOW!
Time Warner needs to be dealt with ASAP! They should have never been allowed to merge with AOL, and now this!
Bandwidth prices should be going down and not up, the hardware to support them is cheaper, and by now they should have a very streamlined system that costs less to support.
Yet customers are to pay more!
I use a company that uses TW lines, and they better not pull that crap here, I am in Ohio.
It’s funny how when I first tested RR years ago it was MUCH faster than it is today. It is much more reliable today, but just not as fast.
So lets see... Less speed, limited data transfer, and more money for it! GET REAL!
Kyle MCSE |
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
·EarthLink
·AT&T Midwest
·Earthlink Cable Mo..
| A co-worker in the Franklin area signed up and was seeing in excess of 3mbs download rates... for a while... Now it's back in the normal 2mbs range.
Surprised ??
Oh, and you *will* be affected by these changes eventually. Anyone ISP that "uses" RR as the back-end will be bound to the same terms as direct RR customers. If not, everyone would just leave RR and go with an ISP that re-sells the same service.
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juilinsandar
Texas Gooner
Premium
join:2000-07-17
San Benito, TX |  reply to vic102482
Re: A bit pricey for cable.
I'm glad I held off of signing up with my local TWC for RR. I seriously considered it, but now that they're talking about limiting downloads, I'm glad i kept my dsl.
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rds24a
Teach Your Children
Premium
join:2000-12-13
Springboro, OH
clubs:
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Speedy8
Re: Not all of Ohio, I suppose
unlimited - adj. - without boundaries or limitations
No where in unlimited does it say anything about not hosting servers, bandwidth caps, or to be strict - speed caps.
There was a time when fine print was used to clarify certain details of the otherwise dominant main documentation.
With everything from software to ISPs to car loans, now the fine print dominates and often supercedes the main front of a particular offer. There is legal precedent that fine print cannot override "large print" information, but when it is Joe User versus HyperGlobalMegaNetworkCompany, there is no practical recourse...and we haven't talked about the blanket "subject to change at any time" disclaimer that accompanies everything nowadays. It's a real bitch but it's nothing new....
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Shoriyuken
join:2002-12-19
Santa Rosa, CA
| reply to rradina
Re: A bit pricey for cable.
Why do we assume prices will rise? Because so far cable prices always HAVE risen. Especially in my area.
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