Comments on: Time Warner Will Cap Bandwidth Usage To 40GB http://techization.com/time-warner-will-cap-bandwidth-useage-to-40gb/ Matt's View On Today's Technology Thu, 19 Aug 2010 04:08:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: TSS Test » TWC: Overages- Not Charged Until You Sign Up to be Monitored… http://techization.com/time-warner-will-cap-bandwidth-useage-to-40gb/comment-page-1/#comment-524 TSS Test » TWC: Overages- Not Charged Until You Sign Up to be Monitored… Sat, 30 May 2009 06:07:56 +0000 http://techization.com/?p=104#comment-524 [...] Time Warner Cable is getting a lot of flack from this issue and rightfully so, but they’re not alone. The other ISP’s that are doing this are just as guilty. Time Warner Cable is being used as the guinea pig; they’re the ones who decided to go Nazi on their customer base and impose some of the stupidest limits on bandwidth ever. [...] [...] Time Warner Cable is getting a lot of flack from this issue and rightfully so, but they’re not alone. The other ISP’s that are doing this are just as guilty. Time Warner Cable is being used as the guinea pig; they’re the ones who decided to go Nazi on their customer base and impose some of the stupidest limits on bandwidth ever. [...]

]]> By: tom http://techization.com/time-warner-will-cap-bandwidth-useage-to-40gb/comment-page-1/#comment-16 tom Tue, 07 Apr 2009 05:54:47 +0000 http://techization.com/?p=104#comment-16 I wish it were only about stemming illegal downloads. But I suspect the truth is rather that this is more to protect their high priced video tiers than anything to do with illegal downloads. bittorrents currently utilize anywhere from 50 to 95% of a cable companies network bandwidth usage at any given time. If they were really so concerned about freeing up the network they would limit bittorrent usage with a bandwidth cap, charge more for it, or ban it on their networks all together. But their not going after bittorrents, the single largest network congestor, and that really does tell you their problem isn't freeing up their network. Look, if they give me a 25mbs unlimited download connection at a set price a third party could come in and offer me an IPTV solution that's cheaper than the combined internet/high priced video tier package my cable company now offers me. I'd dump my cable company's video in a heartbeat. It won't even take a 25mbs connection for a third party to do good enough for me to seriously consider turning off the video connection from my cable company. And that is was terrifies cable companies. All the rest is just a smoke screen. I wish it were only about stemming illegal downloads.

But I suspect the truth is rather that this is more to protect their high priced video tiers than anything to do with illegal downloads.

bittorrents currently utilize anywhere from 50 to 95% of a cable companies network bandwidth usage at any given time. If they were really so concerned about freeing up the network they would limit bittorrent usage with a bandwidth cap, charge more for it, or ban it on their networks all together.

But their not going after bittorrents, the single largest network congestor, and that really does tell you their problem isn’t freeing up their network.

Look, if they give me a 25mbs unlimited download connection at a set price a third party could come in and offer me an IPTV solution that’s cheaper than the combined internet/high priced video tier package my cable company now offers me. I’d dump my cable company’s video in a heartbeat. It won’t even take a 25mbs connection for a third party to do good enough for me to seriously consider turning off the video connection from my cable company.

And that is was terrifies cable companies.

All the rest is just a smoke screen.

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