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| Catchy Title Man he was quick, but I tried. Also I was kicked from RR cable by Time Warner because I refused to pay 89.99 for 40Gig/month upgrage. I use 400gig/month so their offer was useless to me. Did I cry about it? Hell no. I called earthlink and contracted with them 29.95/mon to rehook the cable up. I am on month 3 with them and it runs a little slower but I got 600 more gigs in my back pocket and still going strong. Thank you corporate competition. |
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 pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | said by Anamus:
I use 400gig/month so their offer was useless to me. Did I cry about it? Hell no. ... Thank you corporate competition.
Exactly. If a particular product or service isn't right for your needs, there is no sense in continuing to pay for it. A cable modem and/or DSL is not a poor man's T-x. It is clearly stated that these products are for casual, residential use and that if you want or need more, you either need something more expensive, or you will have to go with another provider.
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 jhudson2Copyright Martyr
join:2000-11-07
San Marcos, CA | reply to Anamus
Gigs of what exactly? Look, I don't like download caps either but what in the world are you downloading? And where do you put almost half a terabyte of data per month?
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 panth1The Coyote
join:2000-12-11
Boca Raton, FL | reply to Anamus
The only thing is not every cable company has multiple isps with different terms of service.
How is someone on Comcast going to get another cable isp on the same network?
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Heh, no kidding. I think the most I've ever used on RoadRunner was maybe 100GB in a month upload/download. I can't even imagine what 500-600GB is used for. Too bad this guy is using the AOL backbone still, or I'd say good riddance. |
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kr33p
join:2002-08-08
Spring, TX | reply to pnh102
that's easy to say when there is another provider. the rest of us have to move before we have that option (*cough* charter sucks *cough*) |
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 Speedy8Premium
join:2002-08-22
Alliance, OH | reply to jhudson2
I don't use that much myself, but I use around 100 gigs a month on completely legal files, as well as sending large files to friends. I can't really state anything specific since it's a large combination of a lot of things. Game demos and such are a part of it, as well as beta testing some games/apps. When you have to download an entirely new version of a 500-1gig file it adds up as well. Also using programs like bit torrent over night and while at work it continues to upload to other users. Sure I could use a hacked program to cut off the uploading when I'm not, but that's not being fair to people who are downloading.
Limits are going to kill off innovative apps like bit torrent if it continues. BT could reshape the file distribution world if people would use it and ISPs increased upload speeds. |
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pnh102Reptiles Are Cuddly And PrettyPremium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
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said by kr33p:
that's easy to say when there is another provider. the rest of us have to move before we have that option (*cough* charter sucks *cough*)
I am not talking about switching to another provider. What this guy needs is to switch to a different class of service, from either the same provider or a different provider. If you switched from Comcast HSI to say, Verizon residential DSL and downloaded 500GB a month, Verizon would then yell at you the same way Comcast did. You could probably get away with it if you switched to a business-oriented broadband package.
If you feel the need to transfer that kind of data, you will have to spend the money to get something more robust that residential broadband. Something like a frame relay, fractional or complete T1 is suited for these things, residential broadband isn't.
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Then why do they they offer them on business plans. While Comcast might not offer business service, many DSL providers do and find themselves in the same position.
I don't think it is ethical to loudly proclaim a simple statement in the bold print and then create exceptions in the fineprint that deny the bold print. If there statement indicated that it peak times they might throttle you back or that they didn't guarantee that the service would never break down that is one thing. If I say unlimited in bold print and in fine print, I say that this subject to a puke test, then I think that the puke test should be construed in a light most favorable to the user, not Comcast and that they cannot deny the plain meaning of their marketing through this tactic. |
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