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Man this would actually rain on someone parade... Not even cool :/

i have been a faithful time warner customer for the past 8 years. cable tv, internet and phone and i love my roadrunner however if this comes too pass ill be calling up tyhe dreaded verizon for lightining link and direct tv. i do alot of online gaming and since i already pay about 30 bucks a month for my internet and another 30 bucks for 2 subscriptions of world or warcraft i cant see paying even more too get screwed by yet another company that just wants too gouge me out of even more of my hard earned money.

I currently use Time Warner for Internet and cable TV, but will switch to DSL and DirecTV (way more HD channels) without hesitation if metered use comes to my area.

When cable internet first came out, a lot of us said they won’t be able to sustain the bandwidth, those down the line will get less if those above take more.
When I first got it was great, so much better than the ISDN I had at the time. Last year when my neighborhood went from 2 of us to everyone (I can see 16 different wireless signals) I started having problems with bandwidth, staying connected for large uploads and downloads, which I did mostly late at night. (I do high-end flash and video websites)
I complained to Comcast (we have nicknamed it CONcast round here). That I wasn’t getting the bandwidth and of all the drops, they said it was my equipment. When I started having troubles with the TV also, again it was my equipment. I showed technicians on their OWN test equipment how the signal, and strength would vary dramatically, they only replied “that’s normal, happens all the time”. Eventually Comcast fired me as a customer, just shut me OFF said they didn’t want my business, they knew I knew they were ripping people off.
A few months ago they started charging for a tech to come out and you pay EVEN if it is Comcast’s fault and not yours and it isn’t cheap.
This is another ploy to gouge more money out of the consumer. I understand profit, this is different it’s that they have lost market share through bad customer service to other companies. So instead of fixing their problems they will just charge more for less.
Like the commercial says “most people wouldn’t know HD if it climbed in their lay and called them mama.” They think we are ALL STUPID.

And here is something to think about: Yes it is from 2001,dinosaur days in the tech world, but it is real, and it could be our future. God forbid.

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I hope our country is ready for civil war because if we keep going in this direction. the rich is asking for it. do be fooled by this site its just a way to see how people will react. The big companys in the us have no care for there customers anymore. so its time to take our biz elsewear.(:

It's actually not that bad at all, unless you are an internet pirate. It's clear as day that a small amount of people are taking advantage of the system, and this would be a good way to stick it to the pirates out there who have no business downloading 100GB a month. No regular user would ever be effected by this, because no regular user will ever go over the cap. Even if you download from iTunes, or other legal sites.......you don't have anything to worry about. Besides, even if you DO go over the limit here and there by lets say...a gigabyte.........it's a simple buck. 1 dollar. Not a big deal. They have to find ways to get rid of the pirates who are running ftp servers and stealing all their bandwidth. This won't hurt anybody doing what they are supposed to, so don't worry about it.

Personally I will take my business elsewhere. This is a backwards approach to drain money out of an already damaged customer base, ironically their most solid customer base. It is not the low-end users who when the economy goes south will get rid of internet, rather those who use lower bandwidth. The general large users, myself included are those whom use of the internet would be akin to not having electricity. They WILL defect to another company, service or technology which can provide the same tech for a limited amount. I've seen techs wire unlimited cell phones to computers, put up towers in their backyard to intercept signals, the first chance that is open, a technology company will setup a new company that will deliver the same service via mesh-network approach. How do I know this, my company just completed its fifth city-wide tech network. Other companies such as ATT know this, and have launched an attack on cable by TVIP/VVOIP tech such has U-VERSE, offering quality cable via their internet service. Instead of limited service to the customers their approach is upgrading to FTTN (Fiber to Node) and FTTP (Fiber to the premises) . It is a lesson companies are slow to learn, and the reason Cingular led the charge on traditional tel-com's in the late 90's and early this decade. With the merger of Cingular and ATT this allowed an expansion not seen in years to the phone industry, and while version and others still hold their own is it any wonder that the trend in the cell industry is to move away from metered calling? Pick 5, Mobile - to - Mobile, and other program plans have been ramping up for the past decade. Then we have companies like Microsoft and Apple who's revenue streams will be directly impacted. This will cause them to lobby for regulations, also open the door for companies like Wal-Mart to step in (just as they did with dial-up) with services to the customers at less costs. What the article forgot to mention is that AOL and Time Warner are the same company, ie, its simply AOL trying to enforce its original business plan on its customers again. We all know how well that went the last time for their company.