ArchAngel21x
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join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE
 ·Internet Nebraska
| Hasn't Happened To Me Yet....
I don't know how much bandwidth I use in a month, but I only have one computer hooked up the my connection. Ever since I heard of this I turned on file sharing programs off too.
If worse comes to worse and they send a letter like that to me, I will just switch to the lowest business class tier. It is still about $10 cheaper than Road Runner Extreme, and I really don't need 3 meg down.
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Freezone
join:2000-09-29
Southfield, MI | Any worldcom provided DSl is better. 40 gigs is a lot, but even so know it is there is not a good feeling. Guess DSL is winning the DSl Cable debate. Ecept for those people with crappy service and who can not get it. |
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kba4
join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
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you're falling right into the trap; keep the bandwidth saturated. if all the customers do this, they'll be forced to Upgrade the network instead of milking more out of the current outdated system. i pass 15GB a month easily, and as i can only speak for myself, i'm sure there are many who do it as well. in any economics scenario, when the market becomes saturated the prices drop and innovation kicks in to earn more.
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EFudd
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join:2001-09-08
Brownsville, OH
| reply to ArchAngel21x
Seems there are two options available. Stay with RR, but go with their Teleworker package. Which, so far, is still only $50/month here in Columbus, although they lowered their upstream cap from 768kbit to 512kbit for that package. So far it doesn't seem to have a GB cap( and so far, no 15gb limit letters sent out in columbus at all -- must be do all of the competition )
Or you could always switch to Speakeasy.net. $99/month gets you 1.5 down and 768 up. Yes, thats 768kbit( about 92,000 bytes/sec ) upstream( no transfer caps ). It comes with 2 STATIC ip's and your allowed to run servers. Screw RR extreme and their 40gb month cap( assuming its 40gb in western ohio just like in NE ).
As the only tech person in my family, my family, family friends, even people where I work, all ask my opinion. I used to tell them to "Get RR. Their great." Now I'll be telling them dont bother with RR. Their turning into AOL, and AOL is horrible.
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ArchAngel21x
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join:2001-10-28
Lincoln, NE | reply to kba4
Thing is that won't happen. I would not put it past TW to just sent out more letters the more people pass 15 Gigs. I may have to cool it with the streaming audio now.
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altacon
join:2003-05-07
Greensboro, NC
| reply to ArchAngel21x
We just got a call here in Greensboro about this. Here, they are only calling people that have exceeded the limit. Sucks to be one of those people hovering just below 15Gb and haven't broken it yet. Nothing on the local website shows they want to do it, in fact, it still says UNLIMITED (they even use the all-caps) access.
Time to look at DSL, I guess. |
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