Rick: I certainly won’t go as far as Brett but I think a middle of ground solution could be to charge an extra $5 a month and I do not mean every year. After all my internet bill has been the same for years. Their costs to provide service may be going down but the costs they have little control over are going up just like for me and you. Think what it would be like if that energy bill make it through congress. Caps and tiers are certainly a VERY HUGE money grab for CEO salaries and stockholders and to protect their precious little catalog of video nothing more. At least around here there is a sure lot of extra capacity. Today is a perfect example it’s raining so think of all the people doing all the high data things people do video and games to pass the time. One would think my connection would be slow but an out of TWC’s system speed check shows the same speed numbers. (Speak easy test to NYC I used) When I see a slow down somebody usually dug up a main line somewhere and the story shows up later. Those you can’t avoid. So Rick let me know what you think of that idea. $48 extra a year I could handle. That being said the proposed granny tier should cost the same as a regular user, bandwidth being the cheap part of the equation. They still have to provide the wire, relays, switches, service, and who knows what else to a slow connection the same as a high data regular user. That being said all our modems are being throttled right now. How else could they magically increase speeds to turbo users? By telling the modem it can change speeds. They send commands to your modem all the time but you knew that. Same as a TV control box. Disclaimer!! Im not for any caps or tiers of any kind and would have to bail out if it did happen.

I DO believe that this issue is MORE IMPORTANT then a LOT of people think!!

If Time-Warner, AT&T, and Comcast are allowed to impose these “bandwidth caps” and Internet overcharging schemes NOW, then it will only be a matter of time before MORE Cable & Phone companies…large, medium, and small, will impose similar Internet Overcharging schemes!!

If you think this Internet Overcharging scheme is a “difficult nut to crack” NOW, how difficult will it be once the practice gets more widespread in the next few years?

That is WHY I say it’s better off to KILL this UNFAIR practice NOW…while it’s in its INFANCY…BEFORE MORE companies jump on the “Internet Overcharging” bandwagon!!

Dean

Continuing to publish good information about this to counter what the broadband providers (aka Internet Capping Providers) are claiming, however, is not – without that, one must accept their “data” which can be used to justify just about anything where there is monopolistic control.

Plus dropping to Standard is a way of hinting to TWC that their moves against their customer’s interests are not welcomed and they will be punished with less money for it.

That’s why I have it.