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So you might or might not of heard of this, but Time Warner has decided to put a bandwidth cap internet usage in Austin (where i live). Now a bandwitdh cap may not sound so bad, but when you look at how ridiculous the plan is, it makes me rage.

The known rates have the highest bandwidth cap at $55 for 40GB. Then it's $1 for every GB you go over your cap. I've personally used 65GB in the past 7 days. Now they expect me to limit 40GB a month? i use on average 150GB a month. There is a 100GB plan that doesn't have a set price but it is going to be "significantly" higher that $55. Now they are doing this for a city of 750k people, They did a test for this in a city of 115k people.


Read this if you want to know more.

http://www.networkperformancedaily.com/ ... _caps.html

lol welcome to the cap
mines 60gb a month and its pretty hard to survive on that but you get use too it

BaronSengir wrote:lol welcome to the cap
mines 60gb a month and its pretty hard to survive on that but you get use too it

you poor thing, try 20gb a month and $4.99 for every extra 1gb.

That isn't too bad.

Australia = 60gb plan = $130AUD. Every Megabyte over 60gb costs $.15AUD. (1024*.15=153.6 which equals $153.6 per gig). I think anyway, I'm hopeless at maths.

Why should they even have caps? Is this just to make more money for them?

Seems gay either way, luckily my ISP has no caps lol, for now =x.

try 12gb a month for 70AUD

god i love telstra *hangs self*

You think you have it bad? Come to Australia for a while.

Ok, sorry you aussies, forgot about y'all.

But still, it's rediculous to start doing this out of no where, well i knew about it a year ago but, what ever.

W00t, here in Sweden we have no caps. Lucky us I guess

Change to a different company that doesn't have caps. That is, unless time warner has a monopoly in your area.

I thought caps were extinct.

Even if I wouldn't download shit like torrents I'd pass 40 gig easily. I feel for you and I'd get a new provider. Everyone should get a new provider in your area to send out a message.
Just like some provider who wanted to share their information with a copyrights company, I think 90% of the customers left.

chickenfeather wrote:Change to a different company that doesn't have caps. That is, unless time warner has a monopoly in your area.

They do.

woutR wrote:I thought caps were extinct.

Not in Belgium.
*Moves up North for no cap and green things.*

takolin wrote:

woutR wrote:I thought caps were extinct.

Not in Belgium.
*Moves up North for no cap and green things.*

You should get Scarlet, I have like 100GB for only 50 Euros

you gonna cry now?

45$ (canadian) a month with a 60gb cap and 8Mbits/s. I haven't been over but I've been to 95%~

The RoadRunner here has no cap hahaha, Time Warner loves us, hopefully they don't expand cuz I dld about 100GB or so a month and upload through server activity I use and I'm not gonna pay for extra, I'll switch to that shitty AT&T U-Verse lol ^_^ but so far Roadrunner has treated me right ^_^

so.. you live in texas huh?

Gaige wrote:The RoadRunner here has no cap hahaha, Time Warner loves us, hopefully they don't expand cuz I dld about 100GB or so a month and upload through server activity I use and I'm not gonna pay for extra, I'll switch to that shitty AT&T U-Verse lol ^_^ but so far Roadrunner has treated me right ^_^

U-Verse isn't shitty.. well only one part. The 'dynamic ip' is bullshit. They say you have it, but you can't really change the ip or I haven't figured it out yet. lol. Constant connection always <3 Even when downloading shit doesn't lag up.

TBH I like U-Verse, but then again.. it's that or comcast in my area. I can't really say anything then.

Edit : There is like a few others available in my area, but I'm not sure what they are.. I know AT&T DSL isn't available in my area atm(It's full) and U-Verse is only available if you can't get DSL. Something like that.

Gaige wrote:The RoadRunner here has no cap hahaha, Time Warner loves us, hopefully they don't expand cuz I dld about 100GB or so a month and upload through server activity I use and I'm not gonna pay for extra, I'll switch to that shitty AT&T U-Verse lol ^_^ but so far Roadrunner has treated me right ^_^

Don't be suprised if they start capping your city too. They are doing this as "tests".

ThatBluePerson wrote:so.. you live in texas huh?

Yeah, is there a problem with that?

shit, then AT&T here I come

good, if they are already 'testing' austin, maybe they won't hit me with it.
edit: then again.. i don't have time warner.

Gaige wrote:shit, then AT&T here I come

Another thing about AT&T.. their DSL is good if people in your area don't use the internet at all or just browse sites and not download. I used to reach 800kb+ at times when it's supposed to be around 550 ish.

U-Verse doesn't work like that.. I'm always at the same speed. =[

40euro 4mb/s no cap, im very very satisfied. I run sro on 2 pc watch youtube and download almost 24/7 and never have any lag or shit, i just love my internet company.

45$ for a 16/1 mb line with no cap here.

X-Lax wrote:
Yeah, is there a problem with that?

Sorry to quote this post, but was bit faster. Errrm, do you not have a onctract with them for 1/2/3/4/5 years ? Breaking the contract would be rules violation .. unless they are sneaky bastards and slipped in the odd fontsize 1 rule. Take them to court tbh.

But this shit was obvious thought, TW proved they don't give 2 shits about their customers though. Back in 06 when the viets got banned .. or 07 .. forgot now and joymax accidentally banned TW's ip range. Shame you can't go to a different ISP.


Oh and lol at Austria again. Shame on you aussies.