Time Warner Cable Bandwidth Caps Coming To More Cities (TWC)

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Source: Silicon Alley Insider

In Beaumont, it'd been testing caps of 40 gigabytes per month. That's less than it sounds, especially as companies like Apple (AAPL) and Netflix (NFLX) increasingly offer hi-def movie services. (A hi-def movie can take up about 4 gigabytes.)

We think Comcast's (CMCSA) caps are more reasonable -- about 250 gigabytes per month. But Comcast is mostly trying to manage its network and weed out pirates. Time Warner Cable seems to be looking for new revenue growth areas as subscriber growth slows.

Read more: http://www.alleyinsider.com/2009/2/time-warner-cable-bandwidth-caps

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If you listen to a lot of internet radio, watch some youtube videos, download from iTunes,
you will find that 40GB/mo is going to get you into the overcharge range very fast.

Download the free utility NetMeter so that you can see what you're using per day, and per
month. http://www.softpedia.com/get/Network-Tools/Bandwidth-Tools/NetMeter.shtml

As the article says, 250GB/mo is more realistic. So TWC's 40 is clearly a way to generate
more revenue from the moderate/average user of on line media.

[liberal N proud]

1. More strong arming from Time Warner

We started out with Adelphia who was driven out of business and customer were split with Comcast and Time Warner (no choice). We were stuck with TWC. The service overnight went bottoms up.

We really noticed deterioration with our digital phone service (Vonage). TWC claimed there were no changes.

But in the community where we live, the local phone company has that service tied up where you can't use anyone else which is what drove us to Cable internet service and Vonage. And TWC has the Cable service locked up so you can't chose any other service even though 2 miles down the road there are all sorts of other choices.

It's bend over time.

[SteelPenguin]

2. How is it

That in Europe and Japan they have average speeds much higher than we have here in America AND no bandwidth restrictions. All for generally less than what our cable companies offer?

[KillCapitalism]

5. We're pretty backwards.

Backwards compared to Europe and Japan when it comes to a lot of things. We have poor/low speed internet access, no high-speed trains, no universal health care, etc.

[SteelPenguin]

7. yeah

I mean...When I traveled to Europe in the 70's it seemed to me, at the time, like Europe was a bit behind. Stodgy. Inefficient. Now when I go there it's like I'm traveling into the future. The internet, the phones, heck even the escalators... Plus everything is clean, and the people seem happier. I come back to America and it feels backward, dirty, old, stodgy, inefficient....The exact opposite of what it used to seem like.

[closeupready]

10. lol, that's what 30 years of trickle down Republican government gets you.

n/t

[ananda]

3. This SO sucks! FCC??

Where is the FCC when you need it?

[high density]

4. I hope to be able to drop Time Warner Cable TV in the next year or so

I already get internet through a local DSL company and it is top-notch service. No caps and plenty of bandwidth for online streaming. I started a trial for Netflix's service with online streaming last week and it is quite good so far, but the content provided on it by Starz leaves something to be desired. Starz movies are often presented in the wrong aspect ratio with low, TV-like dynamic range for the sound, but Netflix's own content is great.

Time Warner is going backwards.

[Javaman]

6. This is why I'm dumping these bastards as soon as T-Mobile offers home internet.

time warner are a bunch of crooked pricks.

[Feron]

8. That's ridiculously low.

And here I thought that At&T's proposed cap of 150 gigs was pretty low.

[closeupready]

9. This sucks.

n/t

[w4rma]

11. They just don't want to pay to upgrade their lines. They'd rather pocket that money as profit. (nt)