Time Warner will offer at least two tiers of Internet service during its trial. The lowest tier will cost $29.95 a month for 768 kbps downstream speed and a 5GB monthly quota, and the highest tier will cost $54.90 per month for fast 15 Mbps downstream speed and a 40GB quota.
The company apparently didn’t mention the upstream data rates its metered Internet tiers will provide, likely because upstream data rates are typically slow on cable broadband networks because those networks were originally optimised for delivering downstream video feeds…
…But users of Internet P2P applications and streaming data services will need to pay attention, should they consider buying Time Warner’s metered Internet service. A gigabyte is only couple of hundred MP3 music tracks, fewer if they’re encoded at higher definition. A normal movie in standard definition is more than a gigabyte of data, and a single high definition movie might be up to six or eight gigabytes of data.
…But Time Warner’s metered Internet service will likely drive away high volume broadband users, who’ll probably prefer to pay for flat-rate DSL service that isn’t metered, capped or surcharged. But then, that’s perhaps Time Warner’s real objective anyway.
I pay $25 a month for their 756kbps down right now and it’s unlimited… they better not raise rates and get too creative or I’ll have no reason to keep them.
I live down the road from a Verizon CO. I want to head down to the office and be like, “Ok, seriously, WTF is wrong with you people, I’ll hang the fiber to my house myself.”
I dunno. Fios is available but I’m not getting it. Roadrunner lite is cheaper and all I do is browse so I didn’t feel any change when I downgraded from standard roadrunner to the slower cheaper version. :shrug:
FIOS TV was just approved in Tonawanda so we’ll see what sort of package deal they offer…
Not like it would affect you guys anyways. Most of you think you download a lot and abuse it, but I can assure you that you are far from it, even you Kevin
