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| Multi-User/computer Households? This isn't going to go over very well with multi-user/multi-computer households.
20-40GB for standard/Turbo may be enough for *just* 1 person, but what happens when you have 4-10 user households, are we suppose to expect $100+ increases in our bill in overage charges just because TW wants to artificially inflate the price of a gigabyte?
I'm in a 4 user household, and together have a total of 10+ computers. Everyone has at least a desktop and a laptop. I even have P2P *blocked* at the head router, so there is no file sharing or torrents whatsoever under this roof. And, even with that, consuming 100GB or more per month is pretty regular for us. Our monthly TWC bill ($185-$200) is already more expensive than our Electric ($125), and our Natural Gas ($82), and our water/Sewer ($70-$80). It's more expensive than our Cell phone plan. The only thing our TWC bill is not more than, is our food bill and our Mortgage. And by going with the numbers of 20-40GB and $1 per gig over, we could soon expect our cable bill to top $300 a month? That's ridiculous!
We're using on average of 100-150GB a month between 4 people... I really don't consider that to be very high or even excessive in this day in age when there is so much available over the internet. It's nothing like the stories you hear of a person downloading 600GB-2TB of Data just for the hell of it.
I really will cancel all my services with TWC if this hits NC. It makes absolutely no sense to place such strict data caps on a broadband service when each year, year after year, the cost of a gigabyte continues to fall. Why else do you think sites like youtube exist. And why do you think a number of the major networks can now offer HD streaming of their content online? because, the price per gigabyte of transfer is so cheap now, they can make money streaming HD content on the web. They don't provide it out of the kindness of their hearts... The advertising more than pays the bandwidth bill, so its just a profit for everyone.
A gigabyte only costs a couple cents... Charging $1 a gigabyte is so backwards, that this is the reason why American broadband will *never* match that of any country that leads us significantly in broadband. It will *never* happen when you have such greedy companies that control nearly all broadband access in the US. We pay more money, for an inferior product, and there is nothing we can do about it. Verizon is the only ISP that is 'half there' with the idea of delivering a superior next gen network. Even though they brag and boast that their network can easily handle 400Mbps or more, it's unlikely we will ever see that anytime soon. It will only take a few individuals maxing out their Fios lines 24/7 to make Verizon decide to also implement data caps to take care of bandwidth hogs... or being a greedy US company they are, watching TWC rape users for bandwidth usage, they may just join the game to increase profits as well.
Bottom line... It's all about money/profit *cough* rape *cough* | |
| everyone in that test market should just cancel their supscriptions. This i know is not a thing that would ever happen, but if enough people just said nope we are done with you it just might get someones attention. | |
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Not just multiply computers, but now Video game systems, Apple Tv and Netflix eat up bandwidth | | |
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