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Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-3th-2008 22:43:55   
GoLeafsGo

 

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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080603-40gb-for-55-per-month-time-warner-bandwidth-caps-arrive.html

....end of the internet?

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-3th-2008 22:49:13   
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ORIGINAL: GoLeafsGo

Check it out..

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080603-40gb-for-55-per-month-time-warner-bandwidth-caps-arrive.html

....end of the internet?
Who cares about texas

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-3th-2008 23:02:41   
GoLeafsGo

 

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That's exactly why the 'trial' is being done there.
It'd be chaos if it were a place people cared about =p

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-3th-2008 23:09:56   
Gun_Senshi


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Status: offline 		where i live we have bandwith limit for years.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 0:18:47   
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Status: offline 		If these bandwidth limits catch on with other ISP's in other areas, how on earth to companies expect digital distribution to catch on? Even where I live up in Washington (20 minutes outside of Seattle, in a major suburban city), I have heard rumors of Comcast pondering bandwidth limits on its service. I guess people are using ungodly amounts of data consumption at certain points during the day and it's slowing down the network. This is just a rumor though, and I actually don't know if Comcast really has any plans to impose such restrictions. It still is something to think about for those who do a lot of gaming and downloading, and who might also watch a lot of streaming media over the web.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 0:21:24   
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Status: offline 		of course this is going to catch on.  bandwidth is money to providers, if they can nickel and dime you, then they will (hell just look at the 360 and live).  Althought this might not even mean too much to the average consumer, but downloading movies at a time will not become feasible.  

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 0:29:30   
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Time Warner Cable might find itself with few customers when these bandwidth intensive services become mainstream.


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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 1:42:25   
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ORIGINAL: Mystery_Person

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ORIGINAL: GoLeafsGo

Check it out..

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080603-40gb-for-55-per-month-time-warner-bandwidth-caps-arrive.html

....end of the internet?
Who cares about texas





I CARE ABOUT TEXAS SON!!! DONT MESS WITH TEXAS!!! @@%^%$^&#%&*@^*&^*(@$^^#&^%$^&@%@)(!(&@_@#_@&&#@^*^!)!@_@_#@@)&$@^(&@&!@&@&(@^

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 1:47:10   
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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 1:50:42   
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Status: offline 		badwidth limits are also counterproductive to digital distrobution. As movies, music, games, videos and whatever else become more commonplace and sizes increase with higher definition and technology people will be downloading more and more. Certainly big companies do not want people buying less of their downloadable crap.

That is why they trial it first.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 4:09:49   
LinuxGuru


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Status: offline 		This will never fly.

I am a Time Warner customer here in Los Angeles, CA, and I will leave them for another provider the MILLISECOND they impose bandwidth restrictions on me.

Capitalism just pushes too far sometimes, and the public needs to push back and make it stop.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 4:47:20   
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Status: online 		Australia has been living with this sort of system for years, its total BS but its the only way the ISP's can make a profit especially with high international data costs

One benefit about living in the US is most of the data that travels around is domestic rather than international so its a lot cheaper than over here to provide internet, but its obvious that bandwith supply is being outgrown fast by web 2.0 demand and things will only get worse

Governments need to do something about this and fast, otherwise the internet will need a serious overhaul

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 6:10:17   
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Status: offline 		They will try their hardest but it won't work.  Someone with a brain would just let their company continue to give out unlimited bandwidth and everyone would just flock to them.  That's exactly how the cell phone business is going... though they never had unlimited calls in the beginning, but soon these "minutes" will be non-existent.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 6:23:49   
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ORIGINAL: SpaceCowgirl

badwidth limits are also counterproductive to digital distrobution. As movies, music, games, videos and whatever else become more commonplace and sizes increase with higher definition and technology people will be downloading more and more. Certainly big companies do not want people buying less of their downloadable crap.

That is why they trial it first.


Counter productive? Hells no. This is as stated before nickle and diming. Basically to some degree ISPs are saying 'FU DIGITAL DOWNLOAD! WE'RE NOT MAKING MONEY ON IT!' So they introduce a tolling system via caps. They've been doing that for years in Canada.

Logically, you can argue with your ISP that as time has gone on and that better service and bandwidth rates that the scale of economies dictates that internet should be cheaper and your connction faster and the download limit larger. If you really want your unlimited bandwidth, you take up a legal case against all companies and have them try and justify why they're capping the limits given how the scales of econonmies work.

(Personally, I'm fortunate that my unlimited plan from the days of yore with Bell Sympatico is still kept going. Muhahahaha!)

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 15:04:44   
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Status: offline 		Boo hoo, we've had that sort of thing for years only most of our ISPs simply slow your service down to 56k speeds or below once your have surpassed download limit.

my limit is 50gigs a month BTW, any unused gets carried over to the next month.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 15:42:35   
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ORIGINAL: B Man

They will try their hardest but it won't work.  Someone with a brain would just let their company continue to give out unlimited bandwidth and everyone would just flock to them.  That's exactly how the cell phone business is going... though they never had unlimited calls in the beginning, but soon these "minutes" will be non-existent.


Great point B-Man.  Competition keeps driving the minutes up.  Internet company competition should hopefully keep pushing the caps up, should they ever become a reality. 

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 16:37:36   
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Status: online 		there is SO much bandwith that the ISP providers hold back, why do you think NA pales in comparison to the rest of the developed world when it comes to high speend internet.

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-4th-2008 16:47:01   
Gun_Senshi


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Status: offline 		i'm in europe and i have 20 gb download limit :/

but from 12 am to 6 am downloads don't count.


All ISps here have Downloadl imit cap

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-5th-2008 13:24:00   
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Status: offline 		bandwidth caps are old news, i pay $45/month for 60gigs at 7mbps (768-850kb/s) asymmetric bandwidth (7mb down, 1mb up)

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RE: Bandwidth limits may be here sooner than we thought.. - Jun.-6th-2008 10:58:05   
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Status: offline 		Instead in going forward, their going backwards with this technology

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