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

[Greg Brown]

Fark it all.  Good thing I just spent $100 on the Roku and I'm sure glad I
rent movies on my Apple TV.   Ted Stevens was right... the Internet isn't a
big truck you can just dump something on.  At least not without paying the
truck owner, the driver, the driver's union, the highway tax, the fuel, new
tires for the truck, the driver's lunch, a tax for a worker to clean up the
roadkill hit by the driver............

On Tue, Jun 3, 2008 at 11:25 AM, Jason Watts <jsnonzzr at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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