Charter cable to place caps on usage

[Special K]

Originally posted by: stag3
they're doing everything they can to get rid of video on demand, to bad no matter what they do, technology is going to move forward

This is what I was thinking. They are trying to cap bandwidth to prevent internet VOD from taking off.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

We may not have to get used to it for long. There is lots of talk about the government stepping in to stop this garbage love it or hate it.

Barack Obama and House Democrats talked big when it came to broadband expansion and net neutrality. Apparently, they made good on their promises and packaged net neutrality and broadband expansion provisions into an $819B USD emergency stimulus package.

No surprise but broadband was just axed from the bill along with a load of other stuff that might have helped the average person.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...imulus.cuts/index.html

Fully eliminated

$2 billion for broadband

 

[Eos]

Looks like the AUP was updated:

13. NO EXCESSIVE USE OF BANDWIDTH

Excessive bandwidth is usage beyond a reasonable level for the service subscribed to. Residential service usage will not exceed 100GB of bandwidth per month for Customers subscribing to Services of 15 Mbps or less per month and 250GB of bandwidth per month for Customers subscribing to Service over 15 Mbps and up to 25 Mbps. Charter reserves the right to revise usage limits or to implement additional usage limits. In the event residential usage exceeds the above-described limits Customer will be notified and required to either limit Customer?s bandwidth consumption to permitted levels/limits or subscribe to a Service with a higher monthly bandwidth limit if a higher limit subscription is available. In the event Customer does not limit bandwidth consumption to permitted levels/limits after notice of the same, Charter may determine, in Charter?s sole discretion, that Customer is using an excessive amount of bandwidth over the Charter network infrastructure for Internet access or other functions using public network resources, during any period of time, Charter may thereafter: (a) adjust, suspend or terminate Customer?s account or Service at any time and without notice; or (b) require Customer to upgrade Customer?s service level and pay additional fees in accordance with Charter?s then-current, applicable rates for such Service; (c) cap Customer?s usage or limit aggregate bandwidth available to Customer; (d) implement prioritization of traffic; (e) implement protocol filtering; or (f) use any technology to be chosen by Charter at its sole discretion including, but not limited to, packet-reset and/or other packet management technology, to slow Service to Customer for purposes of conserving bandwidth. Charter may also notify Customer of excessive use and request Customer to employ corrective or self-limiting actions to comply with this provision.

 

[slag]

Originally posted by: Xavier434

Originally posted by: DLeRium
So you can watch like 120 movies on a 250gb cap. It's enough. I have Comcast and honestly it's not too much of a cap. I've gone on download sprees and I still havent gone over. If you're trying to fill your 1TB HD then yeah you might kill the cap, but... for normal users even people who insist on HD 720p rips for their TV shows, it should be MORE than enough.

120 SD movies.

With all of the HD content being streamable through XBL these days and the massive booms that Netflix is getting that cap is going to be broken by a lot more people sooner than later. Each HD movie on XBL is about 8 gigs so that is 15 movies a month on a 250gb cap. Of course, that is assuming you do not use any of that 250 on anything else throughout the month. It isn't the end of the world for now, but I question where it will stand in 2 years.

Who has the time to watch a HD movie every 2 days? I think most people watch maybe 1 movie a week, perhaps 2 at most, but not one every day. There's such a thing as cable tv, movies on demand, OTA broadcasting, etc. 250gb/month is very very generous and i can't believe people are bitching about this.

 

[Modelworks]

Originally posted by: slag


Who has the time to watch a HD movie every 2 days? I think most people watch maybe 1 movie a week, perhaps 2 at most, but not one every day. There's such a thing as cable tv, movies on demand, OTA broadcasting, etc. 250gb/month is very very generous and i can't believe people are bitching about this.

Most people cannot get the higher tiers of service and will be limited to 100GB.