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

[Jason Watts]

Wasn't it posted by someone that when you guys got your rate increase, that
the bill increase was shortly to follow?

Subscriber:  "WHAT, my bill just went up $64k"
TWC:  "True, but you can download things a 2k quicker."

Heath,  if those numbers are right and they carry over to dsl... I guess the
only surfing I do will be done at from work.
On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 10:58 AM, Nick Goldwater <trilug at dogstar1.com> wrote:

> 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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