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" You're used to paying extra if you use up your cell phone minutes, but will you be willing to pay extra if your home computer goes over its Internet allowance?"

According to Yahoo News, "Time Warner Cable Inc. customers — and, later, others — may have to, if the company's test of metered Internet access is successful."

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Horrible idea. :mad2:

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Ars Technica takes a look at the issue:

40GB for $55 per month: Time Warner bandwidth caps arrive

"Time Warner Cable will launch a trial program on Thursday which will impose monthly Internet consumption caps on new subscribers in Beaumont, Texas. Following a two-month grace period, cable users will pay $1 for each additional gigabyte consumed beyond the cap."

"Kevin Leddy, Time Warner Cable executive vice president of advanced technology, told the Associated Press that the variable billing model is being adopted to address the disparity in bandwidth consumption among Time Warner Cable users. Five percent of the subscribers are consuming half of the local line capacity, Leddy says."

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If they do this, it will be Satellite or DSL for me. :mad2:

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My dsl is much slower than cable. Every once in a while I check to see if cable is available at my address. I won't bother to check on that anymore. My usage has got to be 100 gigs a month, maybe more. That would be $115 a month on their new plan. Interesting how they figure a buck a gig is fair. Rapidshare is getting rich and for less than 10 bucks a month I can download 150 gigs of data that is stored on their servers but Time Warner wants 15 times as much for the data just to cross their equipment without them having to store anything on their hard drives. Bullshit

It seems that I am well within the top 5% users of bandwidth. What a change. I'm used to being at the bottom in every category. :lol:

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It seems that I am well within the top 5% users of bandwidth. What a change. I'm used to being at the bottom in every category. :lol:

Not true - you fit the category this young man first mentions :lol:

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It's alright. Some new mega company will come out without limits and steal all their customers including me. tee hee pretty funny though since the rest of the world incorporates bandwidth caps from their cable providers.

Comcast and Timewarner are simply greedy. They know the web is incorporating more video everyday.

I agree - some other company is going to come along ... but until then, we have to watch what these guys do

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It's a bigger issue for cable companies than phone companies. That is why you don't see AT&T pushing this. Everyone in the neighborhood is on the same cable whereas everybody in the neighborhood has their own individual phone line.

I guess we will just have to wait and see.

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