Comments on: Senator Chuck Schumer to Visit Rochester & Protest Usage Caps: Our View

By: Time Warner Cable Protests Planned - While Senator Chuck Schumer plans to speak in Rochester… | Voip Blog

Fri, 17 Apr 2009 17:12:52 +0000

[...] protest this weekend in front of the local Time Warner Cable offices. The consumer-created website Stop The Cap notes they’ve managed to get NY Senator Chuck Schumer to speak out against the caps in [...]

By: James Lang

James Lang — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 16:09:43 +0000

This makes me happy that some one on the BIG HILL in the most powerful city is taking arms to protect the people. Does anyone have information on how to contact the Government of Austin, TX. You can Email me at Lang79James@gmail.com so I can put it on my website so we can convince the local government it is in their best effort to stop TWC bandwidth caps. Now I urge you all be nice but get the point across that if they want our votes they need to fight for us. The power of the vote can be a very good motivator in their eyes.

By: Bradley K.

Bradley K. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:49:48 +0000

>>>>If consumers don’t want it, the company is going to back away from it.<<<<

Haven’t consumers pretty clearly said NO?

How much more clearly can we indicate we do not want this?

Seems like an ostrich sticking his head in the sand.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 15:38:10 +0000

Wrong, you need to convert to bytes first and then do the conversion.

Base2 1TB = 1,000,000,000,000 bytes / 1024 = 976,562,500 KiB / 1024 = 953674 MiB / 1024 = 931.323 GiB

Gigabyte(b10) != Gibibyte(b2)

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:53:42 +0000

Data transmission over a network is ALWAYS Base10, ALWAYS. Data storage is Base2. Tomato is measuring in Base10, just like every other router on Earth.

By: T.M.

T.M. — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:51:53 +0000

If you measure GB on the 1024MB scale, you can convert to TWC scale by multiplying your real MB reading by 0.976 and round up to the next whole number. to get the TWC equivalent.

By: Jason

Jason — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:51:20 +0000

Of course they do, ALL data transmission is measured in base10, NOT base2.

By: Rob

Rob — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:29:25 +0000

So in Time Warner’s world 1000Mbs = 1GB instead of 1024Mbs? How exactly do they get away with that? That doesn’t seem right.

So if you are using Tomato on your router to see how much bandwidth you are using it probably measure 1 gigabyte as 1024 megabytes not the 1000 megabytes that Time Warner uses. So the amount of data your router uses is even higher in Time Warner’s world.

Outrageous!

By: Diane

Diane — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 14:04:33 +0000

Has anyone gotten an answer about how much bandwidth their “tool” actually eats? I have asked good ole Alex from TWC and have not gotten an answer.

By: Craig

Craig — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 13:24:44 +0000

Assuming that during the “test” the gas gauge isnt driven lower then usual and after the “real” gas gauge comes out and your screwed.

Note: TWC charges for 1000Mbs = 1Gig instead of 1024Mbs