Post by lady lynne on Mar 8, 2008 19:14:39 GMT -5
Posted on the sizzlingchat forum by da Boss
I received the April edition of Maximum PC magazine and found an interesting article titled "The End of All You Can Eat?" For those that use the net often this is a must read.
The End of All You Can Eat?
Time Warner Cable, AT & T and Comcast - three of the nation's largest Internet service providers - are reportedly considering changing their broadband service plans so that customers are billed on a comsumption basis, as opposed to the current business model: connection speed.
BroadbandReports.com recently obtained a memo leaked from Time Warner Cable revealing the company's plan to test such a concept with new customers of it's Roadrunner cable broadband service in Beaumont, Texas. In the memo, the ISP claims the change will "Impact only 5 percent of subscribers who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth."
Time Warner's assessment indicates that the commpany believes only a fringe element of it's customer base is using P2P file-sharing networks. The impact will be much broader, however, if it cripples the nascent online movie-rental market that Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and other companies have just begun to explore.
So after I read that, I decided to do some searching and came across some interesting information related to Comcast. I found this forum www.dslreports.com/forum/r19038478-Comcast-Bandwidth-AbuseLimits- Discuss-here-only where people were discussing the abuse of the bandwidth and limiting the amount of bandwidth used by Comcast customers. I checked out one of the links and it took me to this page www.dslreports.com/faq/14555 which is a FAQ on the matter of Comcast having bandwidth limits. Now I knew that Comcast does talk about 'excessive use' of bandwidth on their own site comcast.net but this looks like much more.
I received the April edition of Maximum PC magazine and found an interesting article titled "The End of All You Can Eat?" For those that use the net often this is a must read.
The End of All You Can Eat?
Time Warner Cable, AT & T and Comcast - three of the nation's largest Internet service providers - are reportedly considering changing their broadband service plans so that customers are billed on a comsumption basis, as opposed to the current business model: connection speed.
BroadbandReports.com recently obtained a memo leaked from Time Warner Cable revealing the company's plan to test such a concept with new customers of it's Roadrunner cable broadband service in Beaumont, Texas. In the memo, the ISP claims the change will "Impact only 5 percent of subscribers who utilize over half of the total network bandwidth."
Time Warner's assessment indicates that the commpany believes only a fringe element of it's customer base is using P2P file-sharing networks. The impact will be much broader, however, if it cripples the nascent online movie-rental market that Apple, Microsoft, Netflix, and other companies have just begun to explore.
So after I read that, I decided to do some searching and came across some interesting information related to Comcast. I found this forum www.dslreports.com/forum/r19038478-Comcast-Bandwidth-AbuseLimits- Discuss-here-only where people were discussing the abuse of the bandwidth and limiting the amount of bandwidth used by Comcast customers. I checked out one of the links and it took me to this page www.dslreports.com/faq/14555 which is a FAQ on the matter of Comcast having bandwidth limits. Now I knew that Comcast does talk about 'excessive use' of bandwidth on their own site comcast.net but this looks like much more.
