| That's true. Now can we get some Comcast bashing stories up in this bitch? Time Warner Cable is the only major cable provider who still doesn't have bandwidth caps.
I think Comcap is far more deserving of being shat upon than TWC right now. They've had that 250GB cap in place since October 2008. It's quickly approaching four years now and it hasn't budged an inch.
As it stands now you can transfer more data on a 50 Mbps Time Warner connection in one month than Comcap will allow you to transfer in 5 years! Do the math - you can download over 16 TB in one month @ 50 Mbps if you use it 24/7. That is 64 times Comcap's monthly bandwidth "quota."
What. A. Rip-off. |
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 CptGeminiInside your computerPremium
join:2004-11-29
Corpus Christi, TX
kudos:6
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| Just take a look at the carriage disputes that Time Warner is dealing with in the NY market and down in our area in south texas. For us its been 2 months and the MSG dispute in the NY market is only just beginning. Lots of unhappy customers have been posting on their facebook page daily. |
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Let some TW customer try to download 16 TB on a residential account and see what happens to them. |
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NWOhio
join:2011-10-25
Toledo, OH | very true. especially with that nice little clause in their TOS/AUP that everyone agrees to that does NOT read and that BBR readers/Karl followers refuse to read/pay attention to. |
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Takes me as long as year to do that, but that is still 5x the capability or 1/5 the price of Comcast's fancy "faster" DOCSIS 3 |
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said by AndyDufresne:Let some TW customer try to download 16 TB on a residential account and see what happens to them.
And THAT is pretty much the definition of abuse. |
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bn1221
join:2009-04-29
Cortland, NY | reply to AndyDufresne
I've done 8TB on a business cable line. I know that's not the point but at $97.50 for 2*15 - burst to 20 that's still pretty good? |
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 winsyrstrifeRiver City BouncePremium
join:2002-04-30
Brooklyn, NY | reply to AndyDufresne
Within what time frame? |
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I've done 6 TB on Time Warner residential before so I bet I could get away with 16 TB. That's already more data than a Comcap customer is allowed to transfer in 2 years.
They really do not give a shit. Bandwidth costs these companies nothing and now that DOCSIS 3.0 has been rolled out congestion is no longer a concern either. Bandwidth capping is straight up for controlling Internet video competition only; there are no other financial reasons behind it. |
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