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Re: Stupid Time Warner said by funchords:No, but Comcast's actual cap (as it were) is well above 250 GB, too (the actual cap is being one of the top 1,000 users systemwide twice in six months). Clearly Comcast's cap is not about stifling anything except for the heaviest users. You can watch TV all day on Comcast HSI and not hit the real cap. Can't say that about these sub 100GB caps. When I was with August Associates, a local ISP here in Dallas, we had metered billing. I had an 80GB cap that I never hit, even with a lot of piracy being done. Only time I ever went over is when my roommate decided that the internet was for pr0n, and downloaded 100GB in a matter of days.
I paid a lot more for the privilege of metered billing. Probably because of the fact that the backbone to the internet was through Internap, the lowest latency/high class backbone. Almost no one got anything less than 30ms across the network.
Are the caps reasonable? I don't know, at first blush I would say no. I would prefer a higher cap like Comcast. But if Time Warner parlays that with a high class backbone, it might be worth it. As it stands, that is not the case. |
