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This is awful…we're advancing backwards! One of the main selling points of broadband (compared to dial-up) back in the day was unlimited minutes, and now they want to take that away -- talk about bait and switch! These companies clearly do not have a strong customer focus. What customers want is to be able to get online and use their PC without thinking or worrying about their usage. I can't imagine getting near the end of the month and having to consciously avoid the Internet because I'm near my limit from something I downloaded earlier in the month. Boycott any company that does this!

boo!

I exceed the cap as a single user watching streaming movies that I PAY FOR!. The newest truck time warner is using is to increase packet error for netflix. It started about 3 weeks ago. I get one bad net packet every second only while watching netflix movies. The timing is too regular to be 'random' and only happens to netflix streaming. As a customer that is easily part of the so called one percent users that exceed the monthly amount I am pissed. I bet their usage limits are closer to 10 percent of customers. With a house full of teanagers all gaming and watching streaming video, the bandwidth cap is a real pain. This is about greed and control, not infrastructure problems. The largest city in the state is 65K people. There is no issue with bandwith usage here but they are still limiting the users. I am willing to bet that the top bandwidth people are not as much a majority as they cry fowl against. Where are the 'real' statistics? Not what they tell us but what is actually happening?

Sorry about that!! Dude!! Google : http://www.indiabroadband.net/

Good point Lokeusa ;-) I think the best solution is for ISP to have as much field tech who install and secure it, it is more important than phone support, seriously, this would be great. Customer would be happy, and they wouldn't have to deal with the annoying Geek Squad, you can't imagine how they get frustrated on the phone with someone, the insults are flying pretty high... O_O

Otherwise...
Wifi !! LOL !!! Especially with Comcast it looks alwauys unprotected, my neighbor from Turkey got her router wide open, at the garage where my bro-in-law go do some mechanic works, the Wifi point of the neighbour is also wide open. It is a Lynksis router. LOL!!!

At least Verizon already got WEP protection with their Westell Modem/router, not the hardest to break, some 15 years old can break it in 5 minutes watch youtube. LOL!!! But at least it is unbreakable for someone "normal".

Give a laptop to your 16 years old daughter if your home network doesn't work properly and if no one set up the wireless LAN, she going to click on the taskbar and find out some Wireless Network, without knowing anything, she is going to double click on the closet network and she "fixed" the internet :-D LOL!!! But totally doesn't know why it is so slow... I've seen this...
Totally innocent and AIMing with friend about her sweet 16 with the neighbor Wifi.
LOL!!! You can see everything this days!!

i beleive that these data caps ecouradge wifi theft and acess theft it tells people to take from those who havent exceeded yet. i personally do not support it todays home networks arent secure enouf to integrate these mesures if they intend to do this then people need to be traind by the componies to secure there networks so unauthorized acess doesnt happen and a bottom line its always about more money the more greed they have tha more they will push

My first message disappeared, Wireless WIMAX and FIOS are hi-tech compared to cable, they need to cut their cap to be a little more attractive, cable companies don't real good deal.
They should be happy and graceful local government let them install their coax network, btw, not true full-duplex, YUCK!