[TriLUG] OT - TWC bandwidth caps on the way?

[Nick Goldwater]

If all of this is in the works and they are oversubscribed then why boost the speeds?
I sort of like the idea of no speed caps and perhaps 0.15 per gig... similar to Amazon pricing.

Nick


----- "Heath Roberts" <htroberts at gmail.com> wrote:

| Interesting. For $54.90 per month, you can use 15 megabits per second
| for 26
| minutes (40-gigabyte cap, assumed 10 bits per byte). If you include
| IP
| overhead, maybe 20-23 minutes per month. After that it's $90/hr, or
| $64K per
| month. That should certainly help "finance the needed investment in
| the
| infrastructure".
| 
| I know that broadband access has always been oversubscribed, and the
| providers have been extremely close-lipped about by how much, but this
| seems
| to say it's by a factor of 2000 or so.
| 
| On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:14 AM, Ben Pitzer <bpitzer at gmail.com>
| wrote:
| 
| > Suprised that no one has posted this here yet.  Could this be the
| end of
| > the
| > basically unfettered server functionality on TWC's network?  I'm
| thinking
| > that it may be, for me at least.
| >
| >
| http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jwm8wu3jZWZLcKfIlycqFqFegknwD9126HN8A
| >
| > Let the discussions begin.
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