[1st-mile-nm] Time Warner Cable tries metered Internet

[John Brown]

Hmm, so TWC sets up some pretty large PNG/JPG images on their various
websites (on net hosted) and watches the meter crank up.

Seriously, does this apply to those bytes xfered from TWC internal
servers ??

Does it apply to all protocols, or just web (port 80 / 443, the like)???

So if a THIRD-PARTY, non-TWC customer, mail-bombs a bunch of TWC
accounts with 10MB file attachments, does that count against your
quota???    If so, what right of self-action does the customer have to
force TWC to provide detailed technical information so that the customer
can recover from the third-party abuser, or at least attempt to...

The problem with quota's is that you have to define what you are
measuring and limiting.  TO broad a description and you have problems
like those above....

Whats the real issue here??  Is it that high bandwidth providers are
watching their transit get used up and thus impacting QOS for the client
base??  Is that bandwidth consumption limited to specific types of
applications ? (p2p, bit-torrent, etc)

There are practical considerations, and limits that all providers face.
 Question to the readership:

How do you propose a provider protect the overall health of their
network against those that "abuse".

Its like the person that goes to the Vegas Buffet and eats and eats and
eats.  There is a point where the provider looses money.  What do they do?



Carroll Cagle wrote:
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>   From:  Good Morning Silicon Valley
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> San Jose Mercury News
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> June 3, 2008
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> The meter's running 
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> By LEVI SUMAGAYSAY <mailto:lsumagaysay at bayareanewsgroup.com> 
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> Raise your hands if you want to sign up for Time Warner Cable's trial of
> metered Internet use. Anybody? Starting Thursday, Time Warner customers in
> Beaumont, Texas, will have to pay $1 per gigabyte if they
> <http://www.siliconvalley.com/news/ci_9456427>  go over their monthly
> allowance for uploads and downloads. A company executive said the monthly
> caps will range from 5 GB to 40 GB. How bad of an idea is this? Let me count
> the ways. It's like rationing food, water, air. Like telling us we can only
> have one plateful at a Las Vegas buffet. As TechCrunch says, Time Warner's
> going
> <http://www.techcrunch.com/2008/06/02/going-medieval-time-warner-begins-mete
> red-bandwidth-testing/>  medieval. Says GigaOm: Is
> <http://gigaom.com/2008/06/02/time-warner-cable-broadband-tiers-lead-to-fear
> s/>  Time Warner Cable crazy? For some of us, this is akin to trying to
> figure out how many minutes of the 500 we're allotted each month we've used
> up on our cell phones. It's possible to find out, but it's too much trouble.
> Imagine having to tiptoe around the Internet, trying to remember how much of
> your allowance you've used so far, and struggling to decide whether you
> should read this, download that or upload those photos. You'd think
> companies such as Apple would be up in arms over this. With these caps,
> iTunes users would have to limit how many songs, videos or movies they buy
> each month. (Or those songs could cost way more than 99 cents each.) And the
> timing's just ridiculous, as many of the cool things you can now do on the
> Internet -- watch movies on Netflix, laugh at silly videos on YouTube,
> listen to customized radio stations on Pandora -- require more and more
> bandwidth. Some think the experiment will fail.
> <http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/6/why_time_warner_cables_pay_per_use_inter
> net_experiment_will_fail>  Let's hope some good old healthy competition
> discourages other cable or telephone companies from conducting their own
> experiments, although Comcast, the nation's largest cable company, has said
> it's considering usage caps <http://www.siliconvalley.com/ci_9183822>  as
> well. The 250 gigabyte limit Comcast is mulling seems much more reasonable.
> That is, if you're into restrictions. But isn't this America? Me, I don't
> want no stinking limits.
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