Comments on: HissyFitWatch: Cutting Off Customers Who Use “Too Much” in Austin

By: Tom

Tom — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:57:34 +0000

A lot of Austin TWC Internet customers either must be migrating to Earthlink , or perhaps TWC is using it’s influence, as supplier of bandwidth to Earthlink, to throttle bandwidth on my Earthlink Cable Internet. Any other Austin Earthlink Cable Internet customers experiencing this?

By: Stop the Cap! » Blog Archive » Call to Action: Austin - City Commission Meeting to Discuss TWC Metered Billing

Mon, 11 May 2009 19:37:57 +0000

[...] Residents of Austin need to make plans to attend a meeting this Wednesday the 13th at 6:30pm at City Hall to be sure your voices are heard regarding the possibility of Time Warner Cable returning with its metered billing and rationing plan this fall. It would also be a great time to call attention to the company suspending customer account for “excessive consumption” as we’ve documented. [...]

By: TC

TC — Fri, 01 May 2009 03:53:16 +0000

I’ll just leave TW for not having the NFL network. Guess they’ll still argue that point somehow.

By: Steven Houseter

Steven Houseter — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 03:23:59 +0000

I am a TW Turbo customer in San Antonio and I would guess I average about 400GB/Month bandwidth. I wonder when my day will come.

Some things worth mentioning is that I only run “Full On” during the non prime time hours of 12AM-6AM and its all upstream only. The rest of the day my upstream is set to 80Kb. I do not download much at all. Maybe about 5GB/Week.

By: Grangoire

Grangoire — Wed, 29 Apr 2009 16:42:50 +0000

“[Update 6:22pm EDT -- If you are in the Austin area and you have had your service cut off for "over use," please contact me immediately using the Contact form on the top of your screen. Thanks!]”

Not to be a smart-ass, but considering that many people don’t have multiple locations to access the internet, wouldn’t having your internet service cut off by TWC make using the contact form on a web-page a tad….I don’t know….IMPOSSIBLE? :-p

Reminds me of a notification email I was told to send out when I worked for my school’s IT department.
“You are receiving this email to notify you that your email account has been disabled due to dissemination of the ‘I love you’ virus.”

X-D

By: 44GB Of Bandwidth Per Week Is “Abusive” According To Time Warner Cable « NextGenGear

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:54:03 +0000

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By: Nach 44 Gigabyte war Schluss: Anbieter sperrt den Internetzugang | Basic Thinking Blog

Wed, 29 Apr 2009 08:38:58 +0000

[...] Ein junger Mann aus Austin (Texas) erlebte kürzlich eine nicht ganz so erfreuliche Überraschung, als er sich an seinen geliebten Rechner setzen wollte, um ein wenig im Internet zu surfen. Allerdings gelang es ihm nicht, eine Verbindung zu seinem Internetanbieter herzustellen. Weil er eine technische Störung vermutete, rief er bei seinem Provider an und fragte mal nach. Time Warner Cable, so der Name des Anbieters, teilte ihm mit, dass man seinen Anschluss trotz Flatrate aufgrund übermäßigen Download-Verhaltens deaktiviert habe. Demnach habe er innerhalb einer Woche rund 44 Gigabyte Daten auf seinen Rechner heruntergeladen. Das Fazit von Time Warner Cable: Diese enorme Bandbreiten-Nutzung lasse auf einen Missbrauch schließlich. Folglich wurde der Internetanschluss vorübergehend gesperrt. [...]

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 21:03:02 +0000

I live in Toronto, Canada & I have no cap for $36 a month. If my provider tryed to cap me I would burn them to the ground.

By: none

none — Tue, 28 Apr 2009 18:57:46 +0000

but stop wont some one think of the children
please please

LOL

thats going to be there next reason for caps

By: Time Warner throwing another hissy fit… « Zayne Humphrey’s Blog.

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 22:30:26 +0000

[...] Time Warner throwing another hissy fit… Posted on April 27, 2009 by Zayne Humphrey Just read it, I’ve already yelled my voice away about this. Fuck Time Warner. [...]