http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/ Engadget Comments for Time Warner Cable scraps broadband capping plan in Rochester, NY http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 3:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
I'm one of them.

Besides the fact that Speakeasy.net reports prove FIOS in off peak and peak times is multiple times faster than TW cable (and I've done tests myself. My Fios gets 18,000Kbps down and 8000 Up during PEAK - while TW Cable is usually around 9000down 1000 up on the 5 different locations I've tried) FIOS offers more and costs less.

NOW that NY'rkers have a choice... We are gonna give TW hell.]]>Apr 16th 2009 3:54PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 4:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
I read that as: "while we create fake internet brownouts to convince customers that these caps are necessary"]]>Apr 16th 2009 6:18PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
What concerns me more though is their comment about "while the customer education process continues."

Um....yeah.....I'm sorry, but I don't really see what more I could possibly be educated in how horrible the idea of a bandwidth cap on a landline service is.

Also, I'd trust any kind of bandwidth monitoring tool they could provide about as far as I could physically throw it. It just seems way too easy to me for them to have the tool fudge the results a bit to "prove to people that they don't use as much bandwidth as they thought so caps wouldn't be such a bad thing," then institute the caps and start springing nasty little surprises on people as their REAL bandwidth usage is being tallied instead.

(yes I know, where's my tin-foil hat, lol)
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I hope it's true though...gotta stop this snowball while it's still little.]]>Apr 16th 2009 3:35PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 3:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
...and TWC, if you try to continue pulling this shit, the internet will destroy your market. Take heed. The Geeks run the digital world. Our friends, family, and fellow nerds take advice and heed our warnings--when we leave, we'll take those friends, families and others with us, and you'll be left in an empty, distopian hell filled with AT&T advertisements and shitty, shitty cable.]]>Apr 16th 2009 3:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 3:32PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
http://www.dslreports.com/shownews/Time-Warner-Backs-Off-Metered-Billing-101948?nocomment=1
http://schumer.senate.gov/new_website/record.cfm?id=311573
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Especially after the evidence in multiple publications including Wired Magazine that it was pretty much an unjustifiable farce; it would prove to be a very foolish move on their part.

]]>Apr 16th 2009 3:45PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/ "According to the statement, Time Warner Cable will still be doling out usage meters to all customers. It's pretty clear from the language used that their effort to dramatically reshape broadband billing is far from over, and when it resurfaces, it will be with a better public relations campaign and a lot of selective data. However, what's also pretty clear that the Internet gives consumers the collective power to shape company policy for the better."

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I'm switching to FiOS or another company that won't cap me. ]]>Apr 16th 2009 4:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
I, for one, am very very sadden by the fact that they decided to stop this plan. Seriously, it would have been great. The company would of went bankrupt after everyone was "educated" into switching to Verizon. ]]>Apr 16th 2009 4:08PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 4:55PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 4:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 4:14PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 4:16PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 4:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
If Verizon can get approval to put FiOS in Philadelphia, PA the capital of Comcast country it can happen anywhere!!!]]>Apr 16th 2009 4:23PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/
Date: Saturday, April 18, 2009
Time: 11:00am - 5:00pm
Location: Time Warner Cable
Street: 1813 Spring Garden St‎
City/Town: Greensboro, NC

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All the ISPs including Time Warner suggest that they need to crack down on the small amount "abusers" that use unprecedented amounts of bandwidth. Fine, I don't think many people disagree with them. However, if that were really the truth and this cap experiment wasn't about sucking more profit out of their average users, then they would have set a decent cap of say 150-300 GB a month, and then had the cap progressively increase and and then removed altogether at the highest/fastest subscription. I would pay $99 a month for uncapped (or capped at 1000GB or something) 30-50 mbps service. Right now, I have time warner 10mbps (the fastest they offer in my area) and pay about $50 a month.

Unfortunately, based on their ridiculous capping suggestions (wasn't it like 10GB a month or something for the mid-tier), they obviously are only interested in blocking regular access to online TV streaming from the likes of HULU and online video rental as these services directly compete with their TV subscription and video on demand revenue. This is ANTI-COMPETITIVE, particularly since in the United States most people have a single, monopolistic cable provider (Since the republicans revoked the line sharing mandate) and so customers have no choice to go to an alternative provider to avoid the caps. This point is important to remember -- it is NOT just about increasing their average revenue per customer.. it is about illegal manipulation of the market through anti-competitive practices.



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... they will introduce a mandatory internet useage monitoring software package. It will be pitched as a user-convenience thing, but it will look and act just like what it is : spyware. Expect a ridiculous barage of on-screen nagging.

... they will start to sell that data from their spyware to advertisers and whoever the current Internet Police happens to be ( homeland security, the RIAA, whatever overachieving yet completely clueless Senator or Congressman wants it, and so on. ) at that time. Data is money, and TW loves money.

... look for the eventual "safety" features that will not only monitor, but actively cut you off from sites that are bold enough to break the ridiculously onerous and shortsighted Millenium Digital Copyright Act.


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Anyway, screw TimeWarner Cable. Their HD station quality ain't all that good either. Technology is supposed to advance usage, not set it back into the stone age. I jettisoned all of my premium movie stations (HBO, Cinemax, etc.) but kept my DVR service. With my internet connection I pay $140 a month. I barely watch TV anymore, but I do record a few shows a week on the DVR.]]>Apr 16th 2009 5:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/http://www.engadget.com/2009/04/16/time-warner-cable-scraps-broadband-capping-plan-in-rochester-ny/Apr 16th 2009 5:22PM