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Time Warner Cablemetered internet trial starts this week
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article published on 3 June, 2008
Starting this Thursday new subscribers to Time Warner Cable broadband internet service in Beaumont, Texas will be given a monthly limit on downloads. For ever Gigabyte a customer exceeds their plan's limit by they'll be charged an additional $1. In the past company representatives have indicated that the reason for the change is that just 5% of users use 50% of the available bandwidth.
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trainmstr
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5. June 2008 @ 19:14 |
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I read somewhere that verizon with their fOIS service on the east cost says it literally makes no difference how much one downloads ..and is based on total capacity of the backbone.
Cable companies have overloaded their nodes ... say you get 10-15meg service ..but at "peak" times sometimes its less than 7.
Just like the music industry ..cable companies have refused to get with the times ... whomever rolls fiber or wireless to homes first is gonna win the big prize. Verizon is already proving it.
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5. June 2008 @ 22:04 |
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Just another reason I dropped Roadrunner a few weeks ago and upgraded to FIOS. Upload bandwidth is 12x faster, D/L speeds up to 2.2 mB/s!
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duke8888
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5. June 2008 @ 22:25 |
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This is just like the gas prices so this is high techs OPEC ready to take us to the cleaners....
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Sontiago
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6. June 2008 @ 00:08 |
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Last night, the channel 4 news in my area, Texas, announced that comcast is also doing the exact same test in small town in texas starting today.. All I can say is hopefully customer will leave these companies in droves and "maybe" these companies will realize how foolish their greed is.. OR maybe we should have fought harder for net neutrality.......
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6. June 2008 @ 00:40 |
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We got 2mbit DSL here, thats roughly 200KBPS, not 20000KBPS,10Mbit service is 900-1000Kbps.
With that said 2Mbit can be as low as 190 and as high as 320.
1.5MB is slower than 786, 786 comes out to nearly 6Mbit a sec, but I suck at math so why doesn't someone with a brain tell us the KBPS of a 1.5,2.0,6 and 10mbit connection?
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6. June 2008 @ 12:29 |
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Originally posted by ZippyDSM:
SProdigy
We got 2mbit DSL here, thats roughly 200KBPS, not 20000KBPS,10Mbit service is 900-1000Kbps.
With that said 2Mbit can be as low as 190 and as high as 320.
1.5MB is slower than 786, 786 comes out to nearly 6Mbit a sec, but I suck at math so why doesn't someone with a brain tell us the KBPS of a 1.5,2.0,6 and 10mbit connection?
Let's try to keep this straight with the nomencalture guys. "M" = Mega, "m" = milli, "B" = byte, "b" = bit. There are 8 bits in a byte. 1000Kb = 1 Mb. Therefore if you have a 1.5 Mb/s connection that equals 1500Kb/s. If you have a 786 Kb/s connection that's kilobits, which is smaller than Mb, or Megabits. I am assuming that you are talking about Kb/s here Zippy or my comments don't matter. However, in general the case of the letters "M" and "B" do matter when we're talking about size, specifically the letter "B". Usually when looking at network speeds I think they are generally given in Kb/s. Such as: 200 Kb/s, 786 Kb/s, 1578 Kb/s, etc. I haven't seen any displays of Mb/s and I don't think any networks/software report speeds in KB/s or MB/s (Kilobytes or Megabytes).
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6. June 2008 @ 14:29 |
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ChiknLitl
the way the sat DSL guy explained it a 1.5Mbit service will come out to about 150.0KBPS + up to 30%, when I was running un filtered I got about 220KBPS.
Most services do not donate the raw KB speeds but rather the general Mbit speed if that makes any sense.
Now would your 1-2"MB" DSL lines be mbit or Mbit, the designation I get lost on, dailup 45.0Kbps is 10 times slower than 45.0 KBPS on DSL since a 65kbps modem can only connect at up to 7.0KBPS on V92 tech on a crisp clean line with top of the line hardware, broadband speeds are gennrealy KBPS or is there something else I am missing?
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6. June 2008 @ 15:36 |
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Hi Zippy. I could be out of my league here but I think that most speeds are relayed in "Kb"/s and "Mb"/s. Even the Comcast commercials adverstise "speeds at up to 16Mb/s". I haven't heard of any conversions or adverts with posted speeds in KB or MB/s (other than hardware transfers like hard drive or optical drive read/write speeds)but that doesn't mean they don't exist and it should be easy enough to calculate, being that 8 bits = 1 Byte. Now I'm not saying that my 1.5 Mb/s (Megabit) DSL connection ever gets up to that speed other than with a speed test. Usually I get up to 200-300 Kb/s DL speeds. Some routers let you type the network ID address of your router into your explorer address bar and access network info such as download and upload speeds. My speeds have always been reported as Kb/s, not in KB/s.
Capital "M" is Mega (10 to the 6th power, i.e., 1 Mb = 1,000,000 bits or 1000 Kb), lower case "m" is milli (10 to the negative 3rd power or 1/1000). There are no mb or mB designations.
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6. June 2008 @ 15:50 |
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6. June 2008 @ 18:26 |
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6. June 2008 @ 22:19 |
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7. June 2008 @ 16:31 |
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My bill at the end of the month would be $10,000 if I were metered.
No time for Leap frog!!!
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duke8888
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7. June 2008 @ 20:41 |
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Originally posted by Sontiago:
Last night, the channel 4 news in my area, Texas, announced that comcast is also doing the exact same test in small town in texas starting today.. All I can say is hopefully customer will leave these companies in droves and "maybe" these companies will realize how foolish their greed is.. OR maybe we should have fought harder for net neutrality.......
I spoke to Comcast and know someone in a management position and they will not be going that route all they are doing is a test study and they know it wouldn't be a good thing, it would kill the interent and business for one and all.
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7. June 2008 @ 21:21 |
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Originally posted by duke8888:
Originally posted by Sontiago:
Last night, the channel 4 news in my area, Texas, announced that comcast is also doing the exact same test in small town in texas starting today.. All I can say is hopefully customer will leave these companies in droves and "maybe" these companies will realize how foolish their greed is.. OR maybe we should have fought harder for net neutrality.......
I spoke to Comcast and know someone in a management position and they will not be going that route all they are doing is a test study and they know it wouldn't be a good thing, it would kill the interent and business for one and all.
Meh they'll find most people do not need more than 3Mb line and charge 3X for anything above it.
Copyright infringement is nothing more than civil disobedience to a bad set of laws. Lets renegotiate them.
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Mez
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9. June 2008 @ 08:57 |
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This is a test for new customers. Priced differently, it might be a good business move for them. My guess is they will not get many new customers. I think this is a great! I am thankful that they were not offering the cheap service for a fair price like $15. In my neck of the woods, cheap DSL goes for $22 which has much better band width than that. I might even go back to dial up if I was faced with that. This is what all the old cable companies want to do because they are cramped for bandwidth. I am sure this is in an area where they have no competition. If they tried to do that to me I would move to DSL in a heart beat. I don't think they will because there is competition in my area, THANK GOD!
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militantm
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19. June 2008 @ 18:05 |
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how do "they" monitor your usage anyway? they can pretty much just tell you your over and charge you for it and you have to take their word for it? I'm waiting for verizon or freakin u-verse. this is off the subject but in my nieghborhood I see at&t and still trying to loop folks into satellite tv contracts even though u-verse is supposed to be here soon, what's up with that? anyway I've looked at the prices for the fios and u-verse and the prices are no better than any other combo (tv/HSinternet/phone) package that's out right now. still a big rip off. you guys want your customers to stick around? make it less expensive, it's some silly wires for petes sake.
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19. June 2008 @ 21:33 |
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I like how people say there going to Verizon. I know some nasty secrets about Verizon's way of handling things.
if you want speed over some company Logging You go, Verizon. Im not gunna Go verizon. in the next 2 years im gunna be on afterdawn hearing people bickering about how Verizon Shouldent have to CAP peoples Internet or how they should not be aloud to monitor what your using your bandwidth for.
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