MottiKhan

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.

I already contacted my Congressman on this.

Hmm, switch to earthlink.

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.

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).

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

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).

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.

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.

I'm in Quebec Canada and here my service provider is Videotron and since they've had Braodband they've had caps. I pay 30$ a month for 20 gig. I can get unlimited but it's like 60$ a month.

So no big surprise for me I'm already used to it.

one good point though to this system is that my quality of my internet connection is garanteed. My connection is A1 all the time.

Hope you guys won't get hammered to much.

That's way better than Time Warner customers get, the 40 gig per month deal is close to $60 and there is no uncapped option.  So you've still got it better than Time Warner customers.  By the way, if those values are Canadian dollars that means you get an even BETTER deal.

That's exactly why they're doing it, though. Think about it. Netflix started offering streaming movies through the Xbox so you don't even need to buy another device, and they can actually stream in HD. There are other movie streaming sites as well.

Fast speed and a cap on usage is perfect, you can watch one HD movie stream and there goes 7gb of your 20gb cap in 2 hours!

Can you imagine how much money they'd make on overage charges this way?

For DSL up my way, you pretty much only got Verizon, perhaps some Earthlink though.  Cable however is only available via whomevers TV territory you are in.  So even if I WANTED Comcast cable internet...I cannot have it. I'd love to have the internet packages from about...1.25 miles to my east.  Their equal in speed service is $10/month cheaper.

Oh yeah..and both of those cable providers farm out their internet service to the SAME company.

Free pizza to those who help me move my house a couple thousand feet.

As the government here in the US gets more and more controled by big business (rather than the people) this was bound to happen.  Banks and home morgages; credit cards and 30% interest with hidden fees and surprise penalties; oil and power companies raising prices to extortionistic levels (while they make historical profits); heck even cell phones companies have pretty much followed the credit card companies lead (there are so many sneaky overage charges and hidden fees in my cell phone contract, I doubt even a lawyer could find them all).

Sure, you can change services, but as each company sees how much money there is too be made by the above practices, they jump on the band wagon too.  You can complain to the government (aka 65% companies 35% us), but they will just have a silent chuckle while they nod in agreement to playcate you.  Heck, we can't even get a life and death service (hospitals, health care, health insurance and medicines) taken care of because the huge greedy corporations have such a foothold in the lawmaking process now that they block most reform laws, and put more and more loopholes in existing ones.  So good luck with the internet stuff.

Like president Obama said in a recent interview, "the sad thing is, all of this is legal".  I think what he meant by that was, that over many years big business, using their vast influence in governement, has "changed" the laws to make and this type of "theft" technically legal.  And since you can pretty much run any business from any part of the world now, greedy corperate owners pledge aleigence to no country, let alone it's citizens, they are only loyal to their profits and the power that brings with it. . .