Jee, this is rediculous! Where are you living anyway?!

Here there are so many I-Net providers who more or less BEG you to choose them as your provider that none of them could even THINK about pulling such a stunt without having all it's customers immediately switch to another provider.

An alarming development. Here's hoping it fails miserably, because if it doesn't I'm betting you'll start to see more and more providers jump on the bandwagon.

I already contacted my Congressman on this.

Hmm, switch to earthlink.

Where I live, I use Indo NetZap because there is no Time Warner. I don't like either way.

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Well, i read the linked article, and it states that it cost $1 extra for each gigabyte OVER the bandwidth usage limit the customer chooses to pay for. Fixed monthly pay of for example $30.00 for 20 GB/month + $1 extra for each GB that goes over the 20 GB (prices and limits are pure guesses). I have an unlimited bandwidth for a fixed monthly pay, so of course this worse than that, but not quite as terrible as you make it sound.

I'd already heard that they were rolling out the caps to other markets, but thanks for the heads-up that earthlink also services their networks. Just checked and they're available here, so if TWC decides to expand the caps to here I've got my exit plan

Figures, I just switched over to Time Warner a month ago.  And I don't have any other options in my area (aside from satelite, and I'd rather not have to resort to that, it's my understanding that satelite sucks for gaming.)  So I guess they have an iron grip on me.  Hope this falls through before they implement it in my area (if they ARE going to implement it in my area, it's kind of rural, so hopefully they'll overlook me until last and by then maybe we'll have other options).

A much better link for all the info can be found here.

It really sucks that Time Warner RoadRunner high speed internet is using tiered or metered downloading into Rochester. Just when we finally get a reason to have broadband with services like hulu, netflix, impulse and steam, this happens.

Think of people using consoles even...XBOX Live play much?

I hope there's enough of an uproar for that stupidity to cease.

I'm sure there will be an uproar (and likely lawsuits) once more people realize that this also puts Vonage at a major disadvantage to TWC's own digital phone service (which is most likely excepted from the caps).

Yipes. I feel bad for everyone who has no other option. Makes me thankful TimeWarner doesn't have anything over here. Yay Charter.

Let's hope the public/private outlash will make them change their minds, or it will only be a matter of time until the other giants follow suit..

The best weapon for stopping this evil  greedy pricing is by spreading the word to friends and family.   The more people who know the greater force we'll have for fighting against this  evil.

They've announced the next markets to get it

Greensboro NC, Rochester NY, San Antonio and Austin TX.

I'm in one of those markets, and they're losing my business.

That's the best way to get rid of this, vote with your wallet.  If they do this in my area I'll go back to dial up if I have to (though that will suck big time).

Edit: About their initial experiment with this, those stats probably aren't representative of actual usage, those people were probably told what was happening and curbed their downloading so as to avoid the charges.  That just shows that this policy will affect downloadable services adversely (Impulse, Steam, Videos).  Stardock should be more concerned about this, if the idea catches on then there could be trouble.  It's not the end of the world, though.  There will always be someone who comes along and offers the service at a flat rate so as to attract the unsatisfied customers of this tiered system.  I'm not worried.