Anonymous_
Anonymous
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127.0.0.1
clubs:
1 edit | reply to Karl Bode
Re: [TWC] Pricing model changing soon
i'd be the first to sue too
cause
1 to 2 kbyte per second of worth less data is sent to the modem
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MacLeech
The one and only
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SoCal | said by Anonymous_  : i'd be the first to sue too Could you afford to? |
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dcurrey
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join:2004-06-29 | reply to saber11
How can the tell the difference from legit packets your request like http pop3 ect from hacks/port scans to your ip? |
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Hall
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Dayton, OH
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said by Anonymous_ : i'd be the first to sue too You can pay a lawyer to sue them, that is, if you can find a lawyer to take the case, but you'll lose if a judge hears the case. You can walk away from TWC... They can also cancel you tomorrow if they feel like it. You have no "right" to their service. |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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Phoenix, AZ | reply to Karl Bode
Wouldn't surprise me. after all, TWC was the first to institute data caps/month. everyone followed shortly thereafter.
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
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Packet that guy you hate on IRC, watch his bill go thru the roof.
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Beachie
Stranded in paradise
join:2001-07-12
St. Pete, FL
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said by dvd536 :Wouldn't surprise me. after all, TWC was the first to institute data caps/month. everyone followed shortly thereafter. I'm not sure what you're referring to, Road Runner isn't capped. |
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Anonymous_
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4 edits | reply to MacLeech
it adds up
att
»$4,800 iPhone bill
with in 10 min's it add to 1.2mBytes
i'd opt out and get something else such as:
an open Wifi
,ATT v-dsl, WiFi internet, move and get VZ fios |
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Anonymous_
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127.0.0.1
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no caps that i found yet
i use 200 to 300GB per month 60 to 100GB up |
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Mr Den
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Elyria, OH | reply to saber11
Let TW tie another noose around their necks. They seem to be pretty good at wrecking a working cable system after they took it over from Comcast in my area.
I just switched to DSL 3 weeks ago and am not looking back. |
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH
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said by Beachie :said by dvd536 :Wouldn't surprise me. after all, TWC was the first to institute data caps/month. everyone followed shortly thereafter. I'm not sure what you're referring to, Road Runner isn't capped. I can only assume he was being sarcastic. In some areas, RR did send abuse letters to a few subs for excessive bandwidth use, but it was, uh, very poorly received and they seem to have stopped for several years. If they do go to a consumption model, I'd almost certainly dump them as I doubt they'd have a consumption model that would lower my bill. I've got at least 2 other sources for broadband here.
As has been mentioned before in this thread, I could see them offering a consumption based tier as an alternative to RR Lite, but it would make no sense for anyone on a higher tier and would be sure to cost them customers in an area with any competition. What difference does it make if they're the fastest if it costs too much to take advantage of the speed? |
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bigunk
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join:2001-02-10
Santa Clarita, CA | reply to 69742511
You're always welcome to park your sites on my platform. I sit in a colo in LA, right on a tier 1 tap, with 1Gb/s of bandwidth. |
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dentman42
join:2001-10-02
Columbus, OH | Only a gigabit?  |
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chRoniX10
Peace sells, but who's buying?
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Tarzana, CA | reply to saber11
I doubt that this is true, but if it is I'm going back to AT&T DSL.
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CJ
join:2000-07-18
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I hope this is not true but I am also not going to sit here and ask for proof. Saber already stated that he heard it from a friend that is still in the business, so logic would tell you that he cannot reveal his source until there is some fruition to his info. I have found Saber to be quite credible with his info in the past.
If it is possible for him, I would like at least a little more detailed info though. Without revealing anything damaging to his friend of course. Such as which tiers this might affect if not all.
Thanks for the info Saber. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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said by Karl Bode :Nobody at TWC I've spoken to can support this yet. On top of that it's highly unlikely Time Warner/Roadrunner would want to be the first ISP to willfully accept the consumer backlash from changing pricing models from flat rate to metered billing. That went over like a lead balloon in Australia. Maybe caps and overages someday, but a wholesale change to metered billing just doesn't sound likely. If the OP or the OP's source was a bit confused, this could be very likely.
Perhaps they are moving back to capped service and the website they offer will allow you to track your monthly usage? Instead of billing per byte, you can pay for blocks of overage?
This would explain how the OP's source could have referred to it as "bill by the byte", yet it's a much more plausible system for Time Warner to implement. |
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69742511
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Costa Mesa, CA | reply to bigunk
Funny thing is, my sites are also in LA (well, Pomona to be exact); on solar powered hosting - and guess who their ISP is?
Yep, it's TW.
Business class though (of course). |
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bigunk
Gort, Klattu Birada Nikto
join:2001-02-10
Santa Clarita, CA
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said by dentman42 :Only a gigabit? That's just our tap off a much larger pipe. We plan to go faster in the near future. Problem is our ISP (who is connected to something like 12 different carriers) would need to put in a faster switch facing us, and so would we facing back to him. That's pricey stuff. Not to mention we would need to upgrade every NIC in every one of our machines if we want that bandwidth to propogate. Keep in mind Windows won't run that kind of bandwidth anyways. We can get our UNIX and LINUX machines to do it though.
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fireflier
Coffee. . .Need Coffee
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Limbo | reply to saber11
If they're actually dumb enough to try that, I'll switch to a local WISP or DSL and show them my metaphorical middle finger as I'm walking out the door. . . |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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said by bigunk :said by dentman42 :Only a gigabit? That's just our tap off a much larger pipe. We plan to go faster in the near future. Problem is our ISP (who is connected to something like 12 different carriers) would need to put in a faster switch facing us, and so would we facing back to him. That's pricey stuff. Not to mention we would need to upgrade every NIC in every one of our machines if we want that bandwidth to propogate. Keep in mind Windows won't run that kind of bandwidth anyways. We can get our UNIX and LINUX machines to do it though. Not to get off topic, but tell that to my gigabit Windows 2003 Servers. I routinely transfer 100+MB (megabytes) a second between my FTP servers. of course, they have extremely beefy internal RAID-10 arrays, but to say Windows can't do that is simply not true. My Windows machines and Linux machine both exhibit the same transfer rates, so we're likely switch/nic limited, not OS or software limited. |
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