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- EMFK, on 04/28/2009, -2/+67We're getting screwed in this country. Thanks cable companies. /s
- Nekura20x6, on 04/28/2009, -24/+88Sadly, you'll hit your bandwidth cap in 50 seconds.
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -1/+63What. The. *****. I'm paying roughly half that price for roughly 1/100 of the bandwidth. Goddamnit.
- fcukthisgame, on 04/28/2009, -2/+60Great. And for the other 298 million of us in the US?
- gizram84, on 05/30/2009, -9/+46cablevision doesn't implement a bandwidth cap. you are perpetrating lies to support a fake point.
- tornadojoe, on 04/28/2009, -1/+33I would suck 100 dicks a month for half that speed.
- evisr8r, on 04/28/2009, -3/+33Cablevision has no cap, at least in my town
- Jektal, on 04/28/2009, -1/+26Lately our Comcast cable has been sucking. Real bad. So my roommate called their support line. They're sending someone out today to check it out. All good. But...
Last month we went over the download cap: we exceeded 500GB, they called and told us that, and that the cap is 250GB. Said we'd get cut off if we went over the cap again, but didn't have any suggestions for how to monitor total usage in a multiple-PC environment.
So while my roommate was on the phone with their support, he asked where we were at with our bandwidth for the month. Their answer? They can't tell. Supposedly they only get bandwidth reports once you've crossed 250GB.
So our "unlimited" account ($50/month) is capped. And they don't provide any metering service for that cap. And they can't find out if we're in trouble until it's too late.
And no, we don't have any other high-speed internet options (satellite doesn't count) to switch to. - walgman, on 04/28/2009, -0/+23I would pay $100 a month for 3 regular Blowjobs a day. Would you swallow and where do you live?
- Bloodwine, on 04/28/2009, -3/+21Diggers have no sense of humor, apparently
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -1/+19And if you say "Japan" or some other ***** like that, I'm going to kick you.
- GQCarrick, on 04/28/2009, -1/+18Screw you Time Warner and trying to institute caps! It sure seems like other cable companies have no problems providing bandwidth, why do you? http://stopthecap.com/
- Solkre, on 04/28/2009, -0/+16Dugg for "The Price is Right" method of winning :)
- robertisaar, on 04/28/2009, -1/+16we like getting screwed in the US... if we didn't wouldn't we be demanding better products/services for better prices?
i pay 30 a month for 1MBs down and like 20KBs up(think of my share ratio).... and it rarely hits that, and i bitch to the ISP all the time, just so that they know we're not all pigeons that will take whatever they feel like handing out to us. - vision777, on 04/28/2009, -4/+19The free market at work. They give us as little as possible for as much as they can charge.
- york2600, on 04/28/2009, -2/+16A lot of people would consider themselves lucky if they could get 1Mbit.
- thatspsychotic, on 04/28/2009, -1/+15As long as cable infrastructure is not treated as a common carrier, like telephone lines and power lines are, there will never be true competition among Internet Service Providers.
Can someone explain to me why cable still isn't subject to common carrier laws? - JRowe3388, on 04/28/2009, -2/+15People pay $100 a month for iPhone service. I'd rather my money go to this.
- ryansmith18, on 04/28/2009, -1/+14In a heartbeat. It's only 40 bucks more than what I'm paying now, and it's literally 20x faster than what I'm getting now.
- Aooogah, on 04/28/2009, -0/+13Not really, the telcos have government sanctioned monopolies. Hardly a free market system.
- fasda, on 04/28/2009, -0/+12Aren't they required by law to send those out if they know of illegal materials?
- MisterFurious, on 04/28/2009, -1/+13Equivalent to Japanese DSL...
- gizram84, on 05/30/2009, -2/+14name one place you get speeds like that for a price under that.
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -0/+12Try going to Thailand.
- robertisaar, on 04/28/2009, -2/+14dugg for enthusiasm and a good laugh...
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -1/+13I used to work for Cablevision years ago as tech support, and I can honestly say they probably have the best internet service available in all of NY region.
They're voip is something else tho, but this was about 5-6 years ago. - ethamajin, on 04/28/2009, -2/+13Would you pay 100$/month for speeds like that?
- Elranzer, on 04/28/2009, -1/+11A BJ is a BJ is a BJ...
- devophl, on 04/28/2009, -3/+13I think you hit the nail on the head. There is NO incentive for US Internet providers to offer more than 6Mb/s at a price less than $50/month. High speed Internet is considered a luxury item in this country whereas it's considered a necessity in others. So we here continue to pony up the big bucks for minimal service.
The only thing that will break this will be offering HD video on-demand. But would cable companies do this and harm their cable on-demand offerings? Its unlikely. So unless the government pushes something, I think we'll still be sub-10 Mb/s in 2015. - EarlOfLade, on 04/28/2009, -3/+13You need to move to a "socialist" country where the competition between the providers are real and were they pay attention to what the people want and where the government provide incentives for the cable companies to offer as high a speed as possible for a price as low as possible. It benefits everyone. But we hate "socialism", so it's much more fun to pay through the nose for crappy service than to be called "socialist"..
- AbhorrentBanana, on 04/28/2009, -0/+9I love how Japan offers faster speeds for less per month. So happy to live in the USA!
- Totalchaos02, on 04/28/2009, -1/+10Yeah... no part of that was true.
- KennMac, on 04/28/2009, -1/+10Actually, Cablevision does indeed have an undefined bandwidth cap. I worked in TSG and eventually TechOps there and high bandwidth users accounts would be flagged for review. If the review determined that the user was "abusing" their service with P2P-like applications, their modem would be provisioned down to 5mbps/1mbps, often without any notification. When and if the user noticed, and called up to complain, the cap would be lifted. Just about none of the employees agreed with the practice, but employees don't make the rules there either.
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -0/+9Cable companies are nothing like a free market. You don't have a choice.
- HareBall, on 04/28/2009, -0/+9I have a 250Gb cap on Concast.
- hoffmann277, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8That's a load fasda. That infrastructure can be implimented in high density zones in the USA then such as LA and New York.
- inactive, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8They will throttle your connection if they detect that you're using your computer for server-type activities that hogs bandwidth contently but it'll have to be pretty extreme. All you have to do is call them back for them to take you off.
- rotarychainsaw, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8Get a router that can run tomato. You can watch bandwidth usage through that.
- samard2002, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8Awesome. That's the same rate at which customers are leaving Time Warner.
- doshindude, on 04/28/2009, -1/+9yay 1 mbps faster?
- jejones, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8Never been to Australia, I take it.
- orlyfactor, on 04/28/2009, -0/+8This is just one perk to living in NJ :D We endure the ridicule of a nation, but we download porn 20x faster than you :D
- NuBiXx, on 04/28/2009, -1/+8Dam I am so getting screwed by Comcast, $140 a month for 50/10.
- ohplease, on 04/28/2009, -1/+8No, Al Gore championed funding for Arpanet, which is now the internet. He helped create the internet, not invent it. He never claimed to invent it.
One of the cool things about the internet is you can search for information on stuff instead of blabbing incorrect BS on a forum for all to ridicule. - user500, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6you also have to consider their are large areas of high density in the USA too. They may not need ultra high speed service in no place Wyoming but most places on the coast as well as the Chicago- Milwaukee area are places of high density.
- catalysis, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6Most of the US can't get speeds over 3-6 Mbps
- ingoldsby, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6Could just be comcast. I'm on a Cox Cable 20mb plan and regularly get 18-20+mb.
- Aleman360, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6I'm more excited about the pricing competition this may cause than the speed bump.
In all honesty I'm happy with my 3 mbps down / 512 kbps up cable connection for now. I can do HD Netflix streaming with nearly instant buffering, play Xbox 360 and PC games online with no lag, and browse the internet just fine. The only problem is that it costs like $40/month, which is ridiculous compared to what CableVision is now offering. - inactive, on 04/28/2009, -1/+7I work for them, and yeah...we don't do that.
- Jektal, on 04/28/2009, -0/+6... porn?
Seriously, 2 IT/programmer types who do some work from home, play games, stream music, stream video, download TV with Miro (which uses bittorrent to auto-download new shows, so it's almost constantly downloading), Netflix, etc. It adds up... -
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