I switched to AT&T last year.
I'm supposed to be "locked in" to my deal for the next 2 years, so I'd like to hear their bull excuse if they try to change me. I'm sure they've got some fine print on their side somewhere, though.
If they cap, I'll switch. AT&T sends me mail every goddamn week.
We should all find a freeware bandwidth monitoring software to see what we actually use.
My router actually logs my bandwidth and I can tell you that on average, which means I'm not doing anything super bandwidth hungry, I use about 700MB per day.
The problem is that I do other things that are bandwidth hungry, last month I used approximately 80GB which means I'd be selling body parts to pay if San Antonio was already metered.
I do have Road Runner Turbo, and if it doesn't have a higher cap limit I will my pants, but I'll talk about that in another post.
I put up that number of 700MB because it comes out to about 20GB monthly, and I think that would be a really easy number for your average Joe to get to.
Dex: I agree with you, I have a price-lock guaranty that means I can't do anything that would lower my monthly bill, I can't remove any services, and Time Warner is ing nuts if they think they are going to impose a cap on my usage while I have that price-lock guaranty.
I just switchd to them several months back because it was much cheaper than AT&T - if they impose a cap I'm simply moving back to AT&T considering they send me mail all the time asking me to go back.
Just for fun, my previous months bandwidth usage:
87GB
68GB
52GB
87GB
30GB (- 4 Days)
Is that on your bill? I'm clueless.
I'm also getting ready to drop my land line.
The internet should be free. Fing ridiculous what we pay to surf.
Exactly.
If I'm locked in for two years, they better be locked in for two years, otherwise they better rip up their stupid contract.
No, I believe I said before that my wireless router monitors bandwidth usage.
I also said that we should find some freeware bandwidth monitoring software so we can all get an idea of what we use.
Everyone saying they'll go to AT&T will get the same cap, they're also talking about doing the samething.
I'm like others, i'm locked in on a price. I work from home and better get options to have a higher cap. I wish Verizon was here.
A better idea would be to burn TW down.
Last straw for me with TW.
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I wonder how many people cancelling it would take for them to reconsider. Probably too many, but I would assume there is some threshold they have in mind in terms of how many customers you are willing to lose over a beta test.
Even if the number was modest they'll never get close. People are lazy and they're banking on the masses s ing out more money rather than go through the process of switching.
seems like an uber load to me (40GB), but I don't download movies or anything.
On the phone with my customer service rep, I asked: does Time Warner provide a place for you to check your conscience before you start to work?
His response: "I've never heard of a room like that."
hahaha that , avoid plans with caps and peak/offpeak and plans that count uploads towards the cap
its fukn bs
most of the time its the fukn company that holds most of the countrys internet infrastructure or a monopoly in the market... that .
im payin AUS$80 (US$56) 25GB PLAN down here with the monopoly, sure i can look around for a better product/service, but i prefer to talk to white ppl on the other end of the line when i have problems with the service, than dealing with some outsource person from asia. the monopoly.
If TW does this, I simply up my t-mobile phone from pre-paid to a monthly non-contract plan of at least $40, get a t-mobile@home landline and router for $10 a month, and drop TWC phone service. It would net out about the same as an capped TWC plan, but t-mobile gets the extra money, not TWC, and I get more mobile phone flexability.
I think they scared less of the Netflix Roku player, Amazon video rental, and of course HuLu. TWC, we have the highest godamn internet rates in the world and yet they still want us to pay more?
I switched to Grande about 8 years ago and it is really cheap compared to Time Warner.
I would love to go to Grande, but they only serve apartment complexes and I live in a house. If you want to hear about service, a friend of mine had Grande for a few years, and last year when gas got real bad, he called them up to drop them. He told them the reason why was he was planning a wedding and with the rise in gas prices, he had to cut his budget elsewhere. They told him that he is a valued customer and they hate to lose him since he had been with them for 3 years, so they put him on a hardship pricing plan. He got to keep all of his services (phone, inet, cable) and he only has to pay $9 a month. They did this indefinitely. This was last August and he is still paying 9 a month! That is a company that wants to keep its customers.
Any large company will go this way eventually. People who use a LOT of bandwidth are being subsidized by those who don't.
While agreeing in general that TW sucks diseased donkey balls, I've never figured why people get all righteous whenever this topic comes up. People using a lot of bandwidth means a provider has to get more connectivity to their backbone, upgrade infrastructure, etc. and none of that is free. Do you expect to be able to drive 100,000 miles a year for the same cost as someone who drives 6,000 miles a year? Feed a family of six for the same price as a single person? Pay the same each month for your iPhone as someone with generic cell phone on a 400 minute/month plan? Pay no more to live in a 5,000 square foot house than someone in a 500 square foot apartment?
Robert Heinlein (whose political theology I otherwise disagree with) said it best: TANSTAAFL. If you are using 10x what the average user does, someone's eventually going to have to pay for it, and expecting it to be everyone else is simply wishful thinking.
Read the article.
Yeah, I work from home too and that'll suck if I have to pay extra.
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