Time Warner Launches Bandwidth-Capped Internet Plan

horsemen_ · Post by **horsemen_** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:14 pm

link

On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month will offer 15 megabits per second and a 40GB cap
Both downloads and uploads count toward the monthly total

40gb for 50 bucks isnt @$&* with everyone offering streaming video.playing games on line cpu games/xbox live ect... program updates. the public will never go for it
i think people will leave them for dsl unlimited like crazy i know i would drop them in a heart beat.
i know it says only new customers but for how long

blebs · Post by **blebs** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:28 pm

Opps, disregard, we have the packages, but not the caps.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:42 pm

Ya lame, at least the comcast invisible cap is quite high.

horsemen_ · Post by **horsemen_** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:01 pm

ya i dont know how much data is sent up and down when playing a game on line but i know after a couple hrs 2-3 times a week and norm web useage that 40gb will be gone

OSULLY · Post by **OSULLY** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:01 pm

I'm not quite done downloading the Library of Congress so I hope it's a while before they get to me.

brembo · Post by **brembo** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:03 pm

Lots of people ut there that look at the weather channel, do some light browsing and check email. The 30 buck a month plan would suit them fine and it's pretty cheap.

Post by **YeOldeStonecat** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:06 pm

horsemen_ wrote:ya i dont know how much data is sent up and down when playing a game on line but i know after a couple hrs 2-3 times a week and norm web useage that 40gb will be gone

4x computers in my house...2x of which are used like crazy....TONS of online gaming, (the boy has BF2, COD, and CS going probably at least..quite literally..12+ hours a day, on the weekends probably 20 hours per day) and then there's myself with my morning and evening gaming (BF2). Add to that XBox traffic. 3rd computer doing lots of surfing, me adding VPN and RDP traffic to clients and file transfers to clients.....my PFSense box reports (and it's very accurate) only 30.49 gigs (combined up 'n down) last month.

A_old · Post by **A_old** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:35 pm

YeOldeStonecat wrote:4x computers in my house...2x of which are used like crazy....TONS of online gaming, (the boy has BF2, COD, and CS going probably at least..quite literally..12+ hours a day, on the weekends probably 20 hours per day) and then there's myself with my morning and evening gaming (BF2). Add to that XBox traffic. 3rd computer doing lots of surfing, me adding VPN and RDP traffic to clients and file transfers to clients.....my PFSense box reports (and it's very accurate) only 30.49 gigs (combined up 'n down) last month.

downloading my css server config and maps and then uploading to a new server (admittedly not an every month thing) is 1.5GB

64bit · Post by **64bit** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 8:38 pm

Bad News! I downloaded 40 gigs last weekend alone <Lou Costello> Im a baaddd boy</Lou Costello>

CableDude · Post by **CableDude** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 10:16 pm

OSULLY wrote:I'm not quite done downloading the Library of Congress so I hope it's a while before they get to me.

MadDoctor · Post by **MadDoctor** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 11:38 pm

OSULLY wrote:I'm not quite done downloading the Library of Congress so I hope it's a while before they get to me.

I didn't know they had "pop-up" books.

*edit*

Do they? I mean congress people don't actually read words to they? Not read and comprehend that is......

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:20 am

Logistickkkaly, you can only offer so fast internet round eye.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 1:21 am

Kill bird/rat cintrol

Randy · Post by **Randy** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:08 am

thats some hurting plan 40 gb is nothing.

I pay 50$ i get 100gb per month 1mb up and 10 down

smoke about 3 - 4 gigs a day

plus whatever gaming and surfing you tube streaming news etc takes.

Mad_Haggis · Post by **Mad_Haggis** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:10 am

horsemen_ wrote:link

On Thursday, Time Warner Cable will begin testing a new pricing plan that caps bandwidth usage. Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable's executive vice president, said the plan will be launched as a trial in Beaumont, Texas, and will consist of several tiers. The first tier, at $29.95 monthly, will be a relatively slow 768 kilobits per second with a 5GB monthly cap, while a plan at $54.90 per month will offer 15 megabits per second and a 40GB cap
Both downloads and uploads count toward the monthly total

40gb for 50 bucks isnt @$&* with everyone offering streaming video.playing games on line cpu games/xbox live ect... program updates. the public will never go for it
i think people will leave them for dsl unlimited like crazy i know i would drop them in a heart beat.
i know it says only new customers but for how long

It's justr a Zero, or a One.

Ball back in your court?, is Jesus a fake, or faith?

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:13 am

Mad_Haggis wrote:It's justr a Zero, or a One.

Ball back in your court?, is Jesus a fake, or faith?

Going for the anti-god spam now? Interesting choice, please try personal attacks on the moderators next so your stay here will be even shorter.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:36 am

years from now fiber optics will replace cable internet, capless and speed is the future.

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:48 am

tHE_0ne wrote:years from now fiber optics will replace cable internet, capless and speed is the future.

Careful, AT&T would be happy to offer fiber with small caps and slow speeds.

tHE_0ne · Post by **tHE_0ne** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 2:58 am

YARDofSTUF wrote:Careful, AT&T would be happy to offer fiber with small caps and slow speeds.

verizon ftw

Joel · Post by **Joel** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:15 am

I'm happy I have RR Business. Also a 40GB cap is retarded. :P

CiscoKid · Post by **CiscoKid** » Wed Jun 04, 2008 8:45 am

I have no idea what my speeds are...I'm not picky as this point, but when I can affor dit, I'm getting a business grade DSL connection with static IP