MikeStammer
No prison can hold me
Premium
join:2002-12-26
Aurora, IL | Screw cable
All the more reason to go with DSL. SBC does not cap!
--
Mike Stammer |
|
TrainBuff
The New Haven Railroad
Premium
join:2003-05-01
Buffalo, NY
clubs:  | Neither does Adelphia. |
|
Matisaro
join:2003-11-20
Troutdale, OR
| reply to MikeStammer
quote:
CNET and MSNBC touched on the tactic in September, and now Detroit Free Press columnist Mike Wendland tries his best to get answers from Comcast. According to Wendland, Comcast tells him that "less than one one-hundredth of 1 percent" have been kicked offline for too much downloading. But how many were simply warned? How do these users know how far to cut back their usage if the limits aren't defined? Is it unreasonable to desire a solid answer to what these mystery limits are?
It is unreasonable if the defined answer is far less than the flexable vague one. |
|
RavenTKR
join:2003-05-12
Cleveland, OH | reply to TrainBuff
I read that Adelphia s equally vague i their definition of excessive bandwidth, but unlike Comcast, Adelphia does not terminate user accounts because of excessive bandwidth, at least I have not heard or read it yet. |
|
zabes63
join:2003-04-05
Batavia, IL
| reply to MikeStammer
which is all well and good as long as SBC, in their infinite wisdom, sees you and your neighbors as being worthy of DSL service.
For those of us with no choice.....
--
Letting the Oil companies do what ever the hell they want is not an energy policyTri-City Broadband |
|
gaforces
United We Stand, Divided We Fall
join:2002-04-07
Santa Cruz, CA
 ·Cruzio Internet
| reply to MikeStammer
said by MikeStammer  :
All the more reason to go with DSL. SBC does not cap!
And neither do most other dsl providers 
Screw cable
amen
--
Shoot Straight, Fly Crooked |
|
The Deuce
join:2001-02-23
California
| reply to TrainBuff
said by TrainBuff :
Neither does Adelphia.
No, they just raise their prices until you cancel the service.
--
Brought to you by the Department of Redundancy Department. |
|
RavenTKR
join:2003-05-12
Cleveland, OH | That's true of almost if not all cable companies.
Haw you ever seen a cable company decrease their prices for cable/internet and other services they offer? |
|
m1k3
join:2002-01-31
Aurora, IL
| reply to MikeStammer
They cap, but it is a speed limit, not a distance limit. I had Ameritech(SBC) DSL for several years, I'm glad to switch to cable after my experience. They didn't try suspend my service, they just tried to degrade it without me knowing and kept raising the price at the same time. I first started paying $39 for their 768/128k and at the end they had me paying $50 for 384/56k and I didn't even know it! I switched to Comcast as soon as it became available in the area and for the same price I got more than double the speed. 1768/354. |
|
Bartolini
join:2003-10-15
Asbury Park, NJ |  I had the same DSL experience. I was wondering when I would be paying top price for 200/56k. I started out at 440/90k and never was able to get better. Now am on OptOnline and Jellin!.....5500/994k |
|
noochie
join:2002-08-11
Penn Valley, CA | reply to RavenTKR
Cox doesnt cap nor do they raise prices!! :P |
|
mph300
Two Thirds The Way There
join:2000-11-09 | reply to RavenTKR
Actually, Charter just lowered my cable internet from 59.95 to 39.95 AND incresed the DL bandwidth! |
|
wookie_geek
@xx.charter- | Yeah, and just wait til 1 Mar 2004 and see what the prices are then. |
|
CCCMTech
Premium,VIP,MVM
join:2002-05-17
Pound, VA
| reply to m1k3
Actually, we gain NOTHING by capping your downstream speeds. We provide you with a 24/7 ATM path flowing at your sync rate, most COs are backed with multiple DS3s or OC3s depending on the area. Our dsl routers (Redbacks as most people know them)usually have multiple OC3s feeding them and we currently have a OC192 for our backbone. We have no need to cap you. We set your speed limit based on your line's physical abilities and your purchased speed tier. Our routers have more than enough bandwidth to support you as you cannot hog everyone else's bandwidth (the reason cable caps).
If you were capped on downstream it was because of your line's physical abilities. One advantage to cable is the ability to boost the signal cheaply allowing for speeds over long loops. You were probably about 12000-15000 ft out and had to be capped to 768 to keep from dropping sync.
Also we now offer the deluxe package (768-1536/256-384) for $39 as well. It boils down to variables.
--
Thank you for choosing SBC Internet Services. My name is Rick. How may I help you today? |
|
