Comments on: Time Warner Wants to Gouge for Internet Access http://www.thoughtstook.com/2008/01/18/time-warner-wants-to-gouge-for-internet-access/ Sun, 07 Sep 2008 17:24:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.1 By: Absoblogginlutely http://www.thoughtstook.com/2008/01/18/time-warner-wants-to-gouge-for-internet-access/#comment-25 Absoblogginlutely Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:45:30 +0000 http://www.thoughtstook.com/2008/01/18/time-warner-wants-to-gouge-for-internet-access/#comment-25 Hmmm - would be nice if they actually provided a consistent service all the time then I wouldn't mind paying for it but when the service is so slow in the evening, why should I have to pay extra for the bandwidth that I'm using. VOIP doesn't use much bandwidth at all - the heavy hitters will be iso downloaders (but that tends to be fairly infrequent) and the warez users. The latter deserve to pay one way or the other for their downloads.... This plan effectively means each user pays for spam and windows updates - i'm sure Bill isn't going to help pay for the cost of windows updates and spammers aren't going to pay...... I'd also like to see how they are going to provide the billing interface - are they going to just give a total bandwidth usage or billed by application/host/port - that would give some people at least the ability to see how much their voip is increasing their internet costs. Personally I agree with you - its a way to force people to spend $30 on their phone service as opposed to $15 for vonage (or about $1 for skype) <em>Absoblogginlutely's last blog post..<a href='http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/Absoblogginlutely/~3/218599543/009239.php' rel="nofollow">Photography workflow.</a></em> Hmmm - would be nice if they actually provided a consistent service all the time then I wouldn’t mind paying for it but when the service is so slow in the evening, why should I have to pay extra for the bandwidth that I’m using.
VOIP doesn’t use much bandwidth at all - the heavy hitters will be iso downloaders (but that tends to be fairly infrequent) and the warez users. The latter deserve to pay one way or the other for their downloads….

This plan effectively means each user pays for spam and windows updates - i’m sure Bill isn’t going to help pay for the cost of windows updates and spammers aren’t going to pay……

I’d also like to see how they are going to provide the billing interface - are they going to just give a total bandwidth usage or billed by application/host/port - that would give some people at least the ability to see how much their voip is increasing their internet costs.

Personally I agree with you - its a way to force people to spend $30 on their phone service as opposed to $15 for vonage (or about $1 for skype)

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