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

[bak]

Jeremy Portzer wrote:
>
> I really am not a TWC apologist.  I know they do a lot of stupid things 
> and are a huge company with a lot of power in the market.  But I do 
> think people need to realize that TWC's idea is NOT unreasonable - now 
> we'll see if they manage to implement it in a rational manner.
>   

Thinking about it a little more, it seems to me most of the outrage is 
centered around a few memes that seem to be in most folks' brains:

1-- They advertise it as unlimited service; now they'll limit it and 
advertise falsely
2-- They don't have any local competition in many areas; we get less for 
our money with little or no recourse to vote with our dollars and go 
elsewhere
3-- They're not really out of bandwidth; this is a mere money-grab that 
they feel they can get away with
4-- Folks downloading movies will compete with their VoD service; this 
is anti-competitive and meant to make other VoD offerings more expensive 
and less attractive to TWC subscribers
5-- They're limiting by total data in/out without taking into account 
any other factors

It's easy to see why it would give a subscribe a bad taste in his/her mouth.

Speaking for myself, I would rather pay more up front and be 
rate-limited down to 50% (still usable for VPN, can still download 
movies from Amazon or NetFlix or Xbox games) after 50GB than get charged 
per-GB.  Or have peak/off-peak taken into account when calculating 
usage.  ANYTHING other than just pay-as-you-go extra data.

--bak