Originally Posted by RandyWayne (Post 482857)

I don't disagree with the philosophy behind putting a cap on net use but the caps seem awfully low. 5 gigs for a 768 Kbps and 40 for a 15 Mbps download plan? Comcast says the worst of worst bandwidth users on their networks are routinely exceeding 200-250 gigs a month. Why not make it 10 for the cheap plan and at least 100 for the top? That won't effect any possible software downloading and web surfing but WILL effect those who keep their bit torrent clients online 24.7.

Originally Posted by Praxeas (Post 482843)

TW is going to be doing a trial run in Texas of Metered Internet Access.

It will be like Cell phone usage. If you go over a certain amount of data transfer then you will be charged 1$ for each gig after that.

This is only with cable.

If you have an always on cable connection then everytime you turn your PC on you probably are downloading data. Windows downloads data. Virus scanners do. Then when you visit a website you download data....

What do you think?

Originally Posted by CC1 (Post 482864)

I have been reading where the explosive growth in TV online, YouTube, etc has really been causing congestion on the internet.

For that reason I am not surprised at this concept but I am disappointed.

They should be spending their energy and resources towards figuring out how to increase the internet bandwidth, etc rather than trying to limit it.

Up til now the internet has been a great level playing ground where a small church with an A/V department can air a webcast just as a major Hollywood Studio or TV network can and both can have the expectation that their webcast will be availabel to as wide an audience as possible.

We may end up with broadband access to webcasts becoming so expensive that only more affluent folks can enjoy that while common folks are limited to more basic use of the internet. That would be a shame.