Last January, the ISP Time Warner announced it would be starting bandwidth caps aimed at "collecting revenue from those who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth."
In June, they began their "metered Internet trials" in Beaumont, Texas and just last week the ISP announced they would be expanding the program to four other cities.
The original caps however, were 40 GB and ... [ read the full article ]
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What is it with all of the Australia people constantly reminding everyone of how much their isps suck? This whole bandwidth capping mess is pertaining to the U.S. In the United States Of America, ISPs have gotten everyone use to an all you can eat buffet of bandwidth for a set price. This is why there is such an uproar. Comparing our situation with Australia's is Irrelevant. We live in the U.S., NOT AUSTRALIA. Constantly saying how the US users should realize how good they have it is ridiculous. ISPs here in the last few years have been making speeds faster and advertising such to get people to pay for that high speed. Now, realizing that their equipment can't quite handle the load, instead of ponying up some of that money to upgrade their infrastructure, they'd rather find a way to overcharge their customers. If the ISPs in the U.S. would have placed a bandwidth cap from day one, then that would be another story. However, they get everyone hooked on this fast speed and then simply want to find a way to suck more money of out their customers.
Originally posted by AlmostOz: If you need 250 gigs, your obviously a massive pirate and really don't need 250 gigs.
Not sure why Americans are rioting in the streets. I pay $50 for 50 gigabytes and if you go over you get cut down to dial up speeds until the next month. Thats a pretty good deal in Australia.
Hmm, if you happy with youre 50 giggs, good for you! Keep youre oblivious opinion to yourself. Youre statement only crys attention.
i use to be stuck with a 50 gig limit when i was with a small rural american ISP for 50 bucks a month, that stung. and they didnt charge you extra for more usage, they straight up CUT YOU OFF after you went over twice. and no other high speed in the area aside from sat, so if you f#ck up your left high and dry with dialup.
but now i live in nyc and i get unlimited half megabit bandwidth for 40 bucks a month tacked on to my bundle. its actually kinda a good deal.
EDIT: half megabit speeds in reality when dling from warez sources, i think they said we had 6mb cable. most i have seen is one megabit from microsoft.com.
I moved to the Beaumont,TX area in November 2008 and opted for the highest tier called Roadrunner Turbo which is supposed to be capped at 40GB/month. I had to have the highest tier because I work from home and I'm connected to the my office via VPN. I looked at my usage and surpassed by cap every month except November. Here is a list of my usage each month:
November 08 = 14.82 GB December 08 = 77.79 GB
January 09 = 62.20 GB
February 09 = 24.89 GB so far
I was never charged an overage charge but I think this is because we are still in the testing phase or they are not charging me extra because I am already on the highest tier. I feel like I am pretty conservative in my internet usage. Alot of my usage is from my work. I do occasionally stream videos via youtube and other sites, I play some online games via xbox 360, and download software and the like. I am not downloading warez or bit torrents. I don't believe 40GB/month is a fair cap for most power users especially when other cable companies like Comcast are setting their caps at 250GB/month.
