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Internet Providers Capping Downloads [message #378631] Fri, 03 April 2009 16:04 Go to previous message
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I'm sure a lot of you are aware of Time Warner capping internet downloads for a couple of cities. Time Warner only did this in Beaumont, Texas, and will expand to Austin and San Antonio, Texas and Rochester, N.Y. this summer. The service will roll out in four tiers, starting at $29.95 for 5GB per month, up to $54.90 for 40GB.


Not that this applies to me or most of you directly, but this is a pretty bad sign that internet providers will soon start robbing us of our money by setting expensive downloading caps.


Charter (the internet provider I use) has a large caps of 250 gb and 100 gb, and Comcast has 250 gb, which really isn't a problem for those of us who don't download 2 or 3 large torrents over-night every night, but I have a feeling that this will eventually lead to "pay per gb", where internet providers will be charging you money for every gb you download.


Knowing you, much like me, love to play games. Not only games, but online games which can often involve a lot of internet usage. There's a petition for Time Warner to stop this, and even though few of you use Time Warner, I think it would be a good idea to sign this petition so other companies will find out that this is a bad idea. http://www.petitiononline.com/UHSICP01/petition.html


By the way, I found out about this by reading an article at DVICE, http://dvice.com/archives/2009/04/time_warner_cab.php

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