Overage Charges
By jbg45638
@jbg45638 (88)
United States
July 6, 2008 1:06am CST
Time Warner and Comcast along with serveral other US internet providers considering overage charges. As of now they are testing the metered internet as we speak. Will you take it. Time Warner is considering a bandwidth limit as low as 5-40GBs upload and download combined and Comcast considering 250GBs upload and download combined per month. This is very low. If you websurf, webstream, shop for deals, itunes, netflix, etc etc chances are you will be facing overage charges.
If you are on a dialup connection and have it running 24/7 for a month you'll easily hit past 10 GBs if just downloading. This overage charge also considers upload so if you upload roughly 4 KB/s so another 10GBs is added to your bandwidth.
Now think about Cable where you can easily download easily 20GBs a day. If you play games on the internet you are lossing upload and download about 100KBs-1MBs per sec. If this goes into effect you'll be facing atleast $100 additional charge every month since they are counting both upload and download.
I want to prevent this from happening
How do you guys feel about it I am sure alot of you guys will be affected by this.
Other companies that are considering this are Rogers Cable, Verizon DSL, AT&T
1 response
@freak369 (5113)
• United States
6 Jul 08
I think that they might offer low bandwidth customers a reduced rate since they use less but to charge people for something that they use (since they are paying for the service to start with) won't fly with most customers. I see the adverts all the time "unlimited internet", I guess their idea of "unlimited" and everyone else's is completely different.
@jbg45638 (88)
• United States
6 Jul 08
Nope they are keeping the monthly rates as they are right now. No reduction what so ever. Look that the considered rage they are giving. Every user will easily exceed that. Since Download and upload are considered. If it was only download Comcast 250 GBs will be reasonable.
