Nightwchtr
join:2001-09-10
Falls Church, VA
 ·Verizon FIOS
1 edit | No Alternative's?
There is always an alternative, you can drop them altogether. Get a group of people in your area and drop them. Hopefully that would help change there policy on cap plans . I know it sucks not to have any internet but its a heck of a lot better than getting screwed over. Sometimes fighting back is the only option. |
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major marco
Res Firma Mitescere Nescit
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join:2003-02-13
Stepford, CA
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| said by Nightwchtr  :There is always an alternative, you can drop them altogether. Get a group of people in your area and drop them. Hopefully that would help change there policy on cap plans . I know it sucks not to have any internet but its a heck of a lot better than getting screwed over. Sometimes fighting back is the only option. Ahem. Allow me to spare this topic an additional 25 comments by consolidating all the arguments in favor of caps.
It's for your own good you high consumption user, you. Everyone knows that anyone who downloads over 5 gigs/month must be a pirate downloading "illegal" material. Besides, you don't really need more than 5 gigs because all you're really supposed to be doing with your Internet connection is checking email and reading the weather. You don't need to be doing anything else unless your government/MAFIAA/ISP tells you that you need it. Additionally, it's Frontiers network, not yours, so you can just get service elsewhere if you don't like their policy. They're just managing their network. /sarcasm
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sousademiami
join:2003-02-04
Hialeah, FL | reply to Nightwchtr
The problem is that the number of people who would actually drop will easily be made up for by the huge profits they will net from the remaining customers.
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pnh102
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join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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said by Nightwchtr :There is always an alternative, you can drop them altogether. Get a group of people in your area and drop them. That really is all you can do. I've always considered Internet with ridiculously low caps to be the equivalent of a tool I cannot use. When AT&T lowered the monthly cap on my cell phone Internet, I dropped that too.
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S_engineer
join:2007-05-16
Chicago, IL
·Comcast
| You know, this is inevitable. I don't believe for a minute that this is to relieve congestion as much as I believe it's designed to raise revenue. The tipping point in business where their market reaches saturation point, and they have to come up with new revenues to keep their numbers up. Once their numbers freefall because their consumer starts to leave, then the panic contingency happens. Outsourcing, layoffs, service cuts, increased fees can all be expected at the end of this cycle.
Then the restart of the cycle, the attempted image makeover (e.g. Sprint). The question I see is where is this company located in this cycle?
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n2ubp
join:2007-07-13
Middletown, NY
| said by S_engineer : The tipping point in business where their market reaches saturation point.... They would not be saturated in my area if rather than milk the existing infrastructure for pure profit they upgraded their equipment to compete with cable. Who wants 1.5mb/256kb ADSL ,POTS and Dish vs triple play cable at better than 4 times the speed? |
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mbkowns
Got Bandwidth?
join:2003-07-01
Riverside, CA
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said by major marco :said by Nightwchtr :There is always an alternative, you can drop them altogether. Get a group of people in your area and drop them. Hopefully that would help change there policy on cap plans . I know it sucks not to have any internet but its a heck of a lot better than getting screwed over. Sometimes fighting back is the only option. Ahem. Allow me to spare this topic an additional 25 comments by consolidating all the arguments in favor of caps. It's for your own good you high consumption user, you. Everyone knows that anyone who downloads over 5 gigs/month must be a pirate downloading "illegal" material. Besides, you don't really need more than 5 gigs because all you're really supposed to be doing with your Internet connection is checking email and reading the weather. You don't need to be doing anything else unless your government/MAFIAA/ISP tells you that you need it. Additionally, it's Frontiers network, not yours, so you can just get service elsewhere if you don't like their policy. They're just managing their network. /sarcasm Wow what a F@G... 5GB cap lol I rape that with my cell phone. 5GB for computer usuage...
Few networked computers at home
SlingBox
crashplan.com
downloading legal music
sending files between this machine and work machine
OpenSSH
Just what I did today
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5GB
I would drop that ISP so bad lucky for me in cali I have options. |
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Kearnstd
Elf Wizard
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join:2002-01-22
Mullica Hill, NJ
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if you have Frontier, back up your WoW install after every patch. even with the blizzard patcher set to "share connection off" you could still burn over 5gb in a day with a from disc install to current live version.
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danj96
join:2007-05-16
Bluefield, WV
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 you must be mad!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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Varlik
Without Honor You Will Never Be Free
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join:2002-01-06
Anderson, SC
3 edits | reply to major marco
said by major marco :Ahem. Allow me to spare this topic an additional 25 comments by consolidating all the arguments in favor of caps. It's for your own good you high consumption user, you. Everyone knows that anyone who downloads over 5 gigs/month must be a pirate downloading "illegal" material. Besides, you don't really need more than 5 gigs because all you're really supposed to be doing with your Internet connection is checking email and reading the weather. You don't need to be doing anything else unless your government/MAFIAA/ISP tells you that you need it. Additionally, it's Frontiers network, not yours, so you can just get service elsewhere if you don't like their policy. They're just managing their network. /sarcasm You have an exception grasp of the key bullet points that HSI providers expunge in their arguments.  You wouldn't work for Charter Miscommunications would you? 
Seriously though 5GB OUCH! And here I thought that 100GB with Charter on plans 16M or lower was bad.
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