[sldev] Cache speed experiment & results..

[Thordain Curtis]

Maybe I'm just reading this wrong, but the bandwidth is availible in tiers.
I haven't used Road Runner for some years, but it _used_ to be $50.00
PERIOD.  Now it's "* [T]iers will range from $29.95 a month for... 768
kilobits per second and a 5-gigabyte monthly cap to $54.90 per month for...
15 megabits per second and a 40-gigabyte cap".*  At 40GB per month, that's
40,960MB per month which (assuming your calculations are correct at 4MB per
minute) is 28 days straight access without ceasing activity.  Don't get me
wrong, I think Time Warner is shooting below the belt with a max 40GB cap,
but tiered access makes perfect sense.  Grandma who wants to read her GMail
from her grandsons and browse the internet for better sugar cookie recipies
shouldn't have to pay $49.99 a month, and she'll never use 40GB.

Also, they appear to be offering symmetric 15MBps for their higher tier plan
(probably trying to compete with FIOS) which is quite an upgrade from what
they used to offer.

I'm not defending Time Warner Cable here because for the most part I think
they're a bunch of idiots (having used their services for years), but I'm
hearing an awful lot of doom and gloom about "SL and the media-rich internet
going away now" and I just don't think that's going to happen here.  TWC is
the only major broadband service provider in the US offering a cap of less
than 100-GB/month, and they are doing this as a trial for two months where
they won't even be charging overage fees.  If their pilot program goes bad
(and tiered access for them has before) they'll likely ditch it.  If not,
AT&T and Verizon both sell 7Mbps DSL plans with unlimited bandwidth for
around $30.00.  My feeling is alot of people will be switching to DSL at
that point if they don't see the light.


On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 3:22 PM, Frans <mrfrans at gmail.com> wrote:

> 5GB doesn't sounds like much if you video chat and use services like joost
> and hulu.
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