Originally posted by: spidey07
Surprise, surprise. You have to pay for what you use, it's not free and it's not all you can eat.
My internet contract says I have unlimited bandwidth for the set price. I am paying for what I use. Also, I restrict the majority of my downloading to late night (usually past 12am) to avoid any possible (but highly unlikely) burden on the rest of the subscribers around me.
One thing my friend mentioned to me (he used to work at Time Warner) is that one reason they're doing it is because some people didn't like the high prices of cable internet, but wouldn't sign up for their cheaper unlimited package (with slower speeds). So this is essentially the opposite of that. For someone that browses the web infrequently and doesn't do anything, this provides that same reduced service but in an opposite fashion.
But in a sense, that's just how the model works. Would it make sense for Old Country Buffet to charge you extra as you leave because they think you ate more than the
average bear (had to add in the Yogi Bear reference)? No, because that's a silly concept. The entire unlimited concept relies upon the people that don't use much furnishing the higher use rate of the fatties. IMO, Time Warner just wants more money without admitting it and they know they can do it. If they pull that crap in this area, I'll most likely just switch to Verizon DSL. As long as I can get ~500k/s+ with no poor disconnection issues (rather important to me as an online gamer), I'm happy.
EDIT:
I'd also like to add that this annoys me even worse because Time Warner refuses to remove the disparity inside their own regions. I pay the same amount for a 6Mb/s connection as Syracuse does for 10Mb/s connection and both places are in the same section of RR (STNY)!! When my friend was in a meeting at TW, he actually inquired about it and they said it wasn't on their list of priorities ( bringing the local area up to the same speed ).
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