And nevermind if people have multiple users in their households, especially if those people are gamers, too! Hopefully, that movement will die out quickly and the companies will listen to their consumers.
I was considering about posting this myself. It's completely ridiculous. Austinites aren't gonna stand for it. Its the largest group of technophiles outside of Cali, which on the surface makes them ripe to test this BS on them...but they're also VERY politically active. Politicians are already on the ball about this over there from what I've read.
One blogger speculated that this might be a shakedown of companies like Hulu, Netflix, or iTunes where they'd have to pay time-warner to have their sites not count against the cap.
The asshole in me wants to get into public records and find the CEO of Time Warner's home phone number and release the hounds... but I'd probably get in massive legal problems for it so I'm not going to.
Could you imagine the chaos if the poor sod's phone was ringing off the hook at all hours of the day and night with people who oppose calling to bitch at him?
If I have to, I'll go rent a wheel chair (I can't be on my feet for more than 20 or 30 minutes before getting hit by severe pain) and protest when I'm not working out front of the Texas Capital Building.
Ohhhh my god, this is ridiculous. I guess it would at least help break me of my internet addiction finally. I would be paying hundreds of dollars a month if this were to actually happen. I'd probably just end up cutting off my internet altogether and going to Starbucks. There would be no such thing as Free Wifi anymore, so I bet that wouldn't work, either.
i live in a time warner area, and yeah, i download about 10 GB for one game alone. then on top of that, my dad downloads movies that are ~10 GB per movie (that might go up now because we have a box that plays blurays) so that's about 1 game and less than 3 movies per month.
time warner is an absolutely pitiful ISP. our modem continuously gets cut off and their reparation crews are absolutely incompetent. they came to fix cables once because they were replacing them i suppose, and left with the connection not working -- at all.
this will just cause my dad to get phone service again to get DSL extreme which i absolutely adore.
I'm using AT&T but they're also testing metered internets (in the same area as Time Warner was). There's a new company out in Austin that's doing unmetered, however, they haven't expanded to where I live yet.
I don't know how much I use. Cassiel, myself, and Emrys don't torrent. We do play WOW and City of Heroes. I do upload large files and we have a plan that lets me have decent upstream because I have to upload very large art sourcefiles to places for print. Emrys watches stuff on Hulu. Sometimes I do the test client thing on WOW where I keep downloading new builds.
I still think we probably tear through more than 40gb a month easily. The AT&T cap is 150gb a month. It might be ok, but technology is going to keep getting better and things are going to keep getting bigger.
I meant to comment on your other post a while back. How's the car doin? Almost paid off!! Yay! I was thinking if you had gotten a Jimmy, that thing would have gone through 3 transmissions by now. Toyota FTW!
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One blogger speculated that this might be a shakedown of companies like Hulu, Netflix, or iTunes where they'd have to pay time-warner to have their sites not count against the cap.
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Could you imagine the chaos if the poor sod's phone was ringing off the hook at all hours of the day and night with people who oppose calling to bitch at him?
If I have to, I'll go rent a wheel chair (I can't be on my feet for more than 20 or 30 minutes before getting hit by severe pain) and protest when I'm not working out front of the Texas Capital Building.
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What a stupid, stupid, STUPID idea.
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time warner is an absolutely pitiful ISP. our modem continuously gets cut off and their reparation crews are absolutely incompetent. they came to fix cables once because they were replacing them i suppose, and left with the connection not working -- at all.
this will just cause my dad to get phone service again to get DSL extreme which i absolutely adore.
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I don't know how much I use. Cassiel, myself, and Emrys don't torrent. We do play WOW and City of Heroes. I do upload large files and we have a plan that lets me have decent upstream because I have to upload very large art sourcefiles to places for print. Emrys watches stuff on Hulu. Sometimes I do the test client thing on WOW where I keep downloading new builds.
I still think we probably tear through more than 40gb a month easily. The AT&T cap is 150gb a month. It might be ok, but technology is going to keep getting better and things are going to keep getting bigger.
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