Comments on: Time Warner to charge extra $1 per GB

By: VStar

VStar — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:00:10 +0000

Rogers telecommunication from Canada Sucks! Same with bell Canada Start acting just like Rogers. Limiting your customers to anything only ends badly.
With all these HD stuff on the net we all will be pay for going over the limit, if every ISP starts doing this. Ok, a 5 min trailer in HD is well of 200 Mb and I watch well over 2.5-3hr/day. For any ISP’s to do this to their customers is a downright thief, and should be put under federal review and charge. Then again the federal Gov never sides with the people/ losing side.
Things like this just make you won’t to do something, but you get lazy and start playing Assassin’s Creed, SC: Forged Alliance or The Witcher.
When you do stop and look at what the ISP’s or doing, it’s nothing more than a losing tactics to combat the torrent network. Example, game sizes or way up in the 7 GB and in the torrent world that translate into 17.5GB for some people that’s it there capped out, if you’re a seeder like me.
In other words F**K the ISP and their associates.

By: Bob of Jamaica

Bob of Jamaica — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 13:08:35 +0000

Hehe,
20Mbps / 5mbps unlimited download USD 31.30,
add USD15 for digital TV with it.

Yeeha, thank god I moved out of Belgium where it is
USD 84 for 3mbps / 756 kbps, capped at 22GB p/m,
still, its no Warner Cable

By: :)

:) — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 19:02:26 +0000

100/100 unlimited,
~37€
~$59

By: leecher

leecher — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:56:25 +0000

oh…

i got unmetered 16mb/1mb connection for 35 euros
plus 1 server 100/100 mb unmetered for 36 euros

My total traffic per month is about 10TB

By: Paulo Falcao

Paulo Falcao — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 15:26:10 +0000

My Plan

Max Upload 1.11 Mbytes (real speed test)
Max Download 3.75 Mbytes (real speed test)

Connection type – Optical Fiber

ISP – TVTEL

Country – Portugal, Lisbon

No download limit

Price 30 euros

By: common sense

common sense — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:08:41 +0000

Jeeze, use google much? All you have to do is do a google search and you come up with over 2.5 million pages and all of them are clearly saying that this only effects NEW customers, NOT existing ones.. Go here and read and stop getting your knickers in a twist

http://www.internetnews.com/infra/article.php/3722516

Quote: “The trial pricing model will only affect new subscribers, not existing ones.” unquote.

GAWD, you children make a big to-do about the stupidest things.

By: common sense

common sense — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:01:54 +0000

★★★RLSLogKing★★★ has obviously never been to germany – the public transport system is amazing. busses, trams, trains and an underground all working (almost) perfectly. a car certainly isn’t needed in a well developed country.
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BS!!! Look at England, they are more developed then you and they are now charging you to enter London in a car or Bus!
And Berlin is starting to look into doing the same thing and require ALL Germany’s major cities to follow suit. At least here in the US we can drive downtown and NOT have to pay some stupid idiotic sh%$$y tax just because we want to visit the courthouse or a doctor that may happen to have offices inside the new tax area.

Oh and if you are such a well developed country…then why do you need the autoban? Your country is such a dinky one that I can travel from one border to another in 90 minutes! Two hours at the most! Try that in Texas or Alaska or California or New York. ANY one of these states is two to three times LARGER then your entire country.

You may now remove your foot from your mouth.

By: cmsr

cmsr — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 13:02:57 +0000

It has been like this forever in Belgium. Kinda sad to see it spreading to the rest of the world.

But yeah I pay like 120 euros a month atm, for 30 GB base download and then 60 euros more for the usual 60GB i go over the limit each month here.

By: look mate

look mate — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:25:20 +0000

Dig a hole – in Australia we pay $150 per GB extra with the biggest ISP here [monopolistic market]. The cheapest excess rate is $4 per GB or shaped to dialup with other ISPs.

Don’t compain, you’ve had it golden rosy since the internet came out – it’s about time you saw the raw end of the deal [what it's like for better areas of the world [the further from the US the better]]

By: robin

robin — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:31:42 +0000

not nearly as worse as in belgium where everybody has caps
i have to do it with a lousy 12 gig a month..
i usually spend it in 2 days lol

By: xpsp1a

xpsp1a — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 11:29:39 +0000

4/768 flat + phone flat

22EUR in Croatia

ISP Amis

By: mickey d

mickey d — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 10:15:40 +0000

@44 Chris

100mb/sec both ways, 70$ in sweden

Who’s your ptovider? I have comhem and can only get 24Mbits

By: Viper-7

Viper-7 — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 09:26:57 +0000

@19 – Gaxx
“In b4 Australians saying incorrect information about Telstra/Bigpond” ??

Don’t know what the figures you quoted were, but they weren’t even close to Telstra’s current plans..

For ADSL2+ we pay $99.95 for 25gb, or $149.95 for 60gb, with 15c per MB excess charges.

This thread has been great for a laugh, I’ve had Americans for as long as I can remember waving their 10+ mbit connections with unlimited data in my face for aages, back when we were still on 56k modems with 300mb limits :<

Great to see the yanks getting a taste of it

More seriously tho.. That sucks :< I’d be leaving them ASAP if I had an option, even if I was under their old plan still.. As we’ve learned here these kinds of policies give you a very clear idea of whats motivating the provider. Money.

By: keiron

keiron — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:48:07 +0000

lol – Telstra in Australia charge 15c per Mb (That’s $150 per Gb) for over usage on some of their accounts – and they have some accounts with 300Mb (Yes – MEGAbytes) downbload limits.

Imagine that – $1500 to download a 1080p movie!!

By: Hugh Jardon

Hugh Jardon — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 08:23:11 +0000

I thought that TW(ats) were only really used by n0obsters, so this shouldn’t affect anyone here.