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Originally Posted by chikorita157
Probably the only cable company that isn't doing caps right now is Cablevision (but don't allow seeding on bittorrent unless you turn on encryption), which is actually spending money on upgrading it's networks and giving free wifi in competition with Fios. The problem with Comcast and Time Warner is they would probably want to just save the money and continue to put restrictions... If they were to upgrade their networks to DOCSIS 3.0 or fiber optics, they wouldn't need to do these outrageous caps, bandwidth throttling, etc, but you know that won't happen, right? |
but thats their plan, be behind a generation of technology so when you do open up docsis, you charge not only for the modem, but triple book the lines with subscribers that continue to net you speeds of 10mb down and 1 up, and you know what I don't even get the 1/8th of the speed that time warner claims, and I live in a metroplitan area, go figure. Time warner and isps in general want to say that bits and bytes are rare and we need to conserve them, but the truth is they arn't as long as there is electricity running through those cables that set bandwidth will be there, its all about their future plan of not upgrading, charging more, this was never about saving users money.