stoptwc.info— Time Warner Cable is planning on introducing a tier based bandwidth allocation system in Austin TX, San Antonio TX and Rochester, N.Y.
Apr 2, 2009View in Crawl 4
except this is the beginning of them rolling out their digital content delivery system in a few months; People working for places currently doing that (i.e. itunes), would lose their jobs.
They ALREADY offer lower tier services... both a "basic" (2 Mbps/384 kbps) and "light" (768kbps/384kbps) version at reduced rates. But you don't see advertisements for those, nor do they make it easy to sign up for on their web site.
Regardless of how much money this makes them in the short term, it's a horrible decision. If they go through with this I will cancel service with them and never lookback. If my new carrier tries it I will move on from them.If all my options are exhausted I still won't come back to TWC because they were the ones who started this in the first place.
exactly - which is more the problem. they are making it so you can use the up the cap even faster.At current RR turbo speeds of about 20mbit down, (and using 1000 instead of 1024 in the math), you can download about 216 GB/day -- which is just over 5 times the proposed cap at the big tier. Not to mention the lowest level which you could blow through in a single HD movie from netflix.
Time Warner Cable has no corporate affiliation with Time Warner or Warner Brothers. Time Warner Cable was spun off into its own separate corporate entity some time ago.
momomorrellApr 3, 2009
I pay 50 a month for 8gb's of satellite internet!DO SOMETHING ABOUT THAT S#IT!
ganeshsugunanApr 4, 2009
except this is the beginning of them rolling out their digital content delivery system in a few months; People working for places currently doing that (i.e. itunes), would lose their jobs.
bob1029Apr 5, 2009
40gb/month is ridiculous. I MIGHT be able to tolerate 40gb/week though...<a class="user" href="http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4804/75059651.jpg">http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/4804/75059651.jpg</a>
rocfitApr 6, 2009
They ALREADY offer lower tier services... both a "basic" (2 Mbps/384 kbps) and "light" (768kbps/384kbps) version at reduced rates. But you don't see advertisements for those, nor do they make it easy to sign up for on their web site.
chinesedentistApr 8, 2009
Regardless of how much money this makes them in the short term, it's a horrible decision. If they go through with this I will cancel service with them and never lookback. If my new carrier tries it I will move on from them.If all my options are exhausted I still won't come back to TWC because they were the ones who started this in the first place.
mjesalesApr 9, 2009
exactly - which is more the problem. they are making it so you can use the up the cap even faster.At current RR turbo speeds of about 20mbit down, (and using 1000 instead of 1024 in the math), you can download about 216 GB/day -- which is just over 5 times the proposed cap at the big tier. Not to mention the lowest level which you could blow through in a single HD movie from netflix.
Closed AccountApr 13, 2009
Time Warner Cable has no corporate affiliation with Time Warner or Warner Brothers. Time Warner Cable was spun off into its own separate corporate entity some time ago.