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[Nvyseal]

images/news/internet.jpgSome customers of Time Warner Cable in Beaumont, Texas, may soon end up paying more for their Internet access than other customers.

In a test of metered Internet access that's set to begin Thursday, subscribers who go over their limit for uploading and downloading material will be charged $1 per gigabyte, according to an Associated Press story, citing a Time Warner Cable executive.

The trial run for the metered Web use was expected. The company had said in January that it would test the new pricing model in Beaumont as a way to limit the use of peer-to-peer applications on its network. Cable companies and P2P services have long clashed over bandwidth demands, especially for the transfer of large video files.

The tiered pricing will work this way, for the Internet portion of subscription packages that also include phone or video use: At the low end, users will pay $29.95 per month for service at a speed of 768 kilobits per second, with a 5GB monthly cap. At the high end, users will pay $54.90 per month for service at 15 megabits per second, with a 40GB cap.

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[m.oreilly]

what a bunch of

[Camaro]

I completely agree Mo, I hope they get shot down by there customers, or should I say lack of.

[WFO]

Guess it depends on your habits. I'm paying $50 a month now for 6MBs and no cap that I'm aware of. I probably would not max out the 40GBs so I'd sure like the extra speed.

[m.oreilly]

WFO, on Jun 5 2008, 04:33 PM, said:

Guess it depends on your habits. I'm paying $50 a month now for 6MBs and no cap that I'm aware of. I probably would not max out the 40GBs so I'd sure like the extra speed.

yep, speed is cool, but in this household, with movies/torrents/streaming tv and the like flying around, we would probably soak up the month real fast...

[Tweak]

I hope this doesn't catch on, I can kill the 40GB thing in a single day on some occasions...I'd have to start selling organs to pay the bill, and I don't have many organs left that haven't been replaced or repaired......

[Nvyseal]

Tweak, on Jun 5 2008, 07:26 PM, said:

I hope this doesn't catch on, I can kill the 40GB thing in a single day on some occasions...I'd have to start selling organs to pay the bill, and I don't have many organs left that haven't been replaced or repaired......

and i dont think that, the little organ is worth much either

[Tweak]

Stream enough TV shows, youtube, and download enough of whatever...it'd be a very expensive bill each month.

[WFO]

You guys could always go "burn and return."

[Camaro]

WFO, on Jun 7 2008, 09:43 PM, said:

You guys could always go "burn and return."

at almost $5 per rental that gets expensive too.