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Internet Providers Capping Downloads [message #378631]

Fri, 03 April 2009 16:04

BlueThen
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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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		Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Fri, 03 April 2009 16:04
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: nikki6ixx on Fri, 03 April 2009 16:26
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Lone0001 on Fri, 03 April 2009 17:32
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: _SSnipe_ on Fri, 03 April 2009 18:17
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Fri, 03 April 2009 18:19
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Canadacdn on Fri, 03 April 2009 18:51
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: nope.avi on Fri, 03 April 2009 18:52
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: NukeIt15 on Fri, 03 April 2009 21:08
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: cnc95fan on Sat, 04 April 2009 16:23
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Genesis2001 on Sat, 04 April 2009 18:08
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: DarkXc on Sun, 05 April 2009 00:46
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Goztow on Mon, 06 April 2009 03:37
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: nopol10 on Mon, 06 April 2009 05:51
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: jnz on Sun, 05 April 2009 02:52
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: mrÃ£Ã§Ä·z on Sun, 05 April 2009 03:01
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: cnc95fan on Sun, 05 April 2009 16:18
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: DarkDemin on Mon, 06 April 2009 18:41
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Gen_Blacky on Wed, 08 April 2009 21:40
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Canadacdn on Fri, 10 April 2009 19:32
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Fri, 10 April 2009 20:28
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: nopol10 on Sat, 11 April 2009 00:04
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Ethenal on Sat, 11 April 2009 20:05
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Ma1kel on Sat, 11 April 2009 16:21
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Sun, 12 April 2009 06:34
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Ma1kel on Sun, 12 April 2009 14:49
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Canadacdn on Sun, 12 April 2009 16:51
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Lone0001 on Sun, 12 April 2009 17:47
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Sun, 12 April 2009 18:38
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Lone0001 on Sun, 12 April 2009 20:43
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: slosha on Sun, 12 April 2009 21:33
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Canadacdn on Sun, 12 April 2009 23:08
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Ma1kel on Mon, 13 April 2009 16:07
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Fri, 17 April 2009 13:18
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: BlueThen on Wed, 22 April 2009 20:11
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Lone0001 on Thu, 23 April 2009 12:36
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: Canadacdn on Wed, 22 April 2009 21:26
		Re: Internet Providers Capping Downloads By: nikki6ixx on Wed, 22 April 2009 21:36

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