Finally some sensibility. I can't see why they think bandwidth caps would be "the best pricing plan" when they prices they came up with were worse than ever. It would take some extremely competetive per GB pricing to get me on the caps wagon.

The customer has spoken. And the customer is right.
Now, about those available data speed prices...

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They are just bullshitting us until they come out with something less extreme. They still want to line their pockets they just won't be able to quite as much as they hoped for.

ppl should still jump ship if there are other ISP options in their area. This move by TWC just delays the implmentation of a cap. They have to learn the hard way that even thinking about a cap like what was initially imposed is absurd. This way they will not have the excess marketshare to make any foolish decisions...

Unfortunately Ilive in an area where AT&T is the only other option, and having been a customer in the past, from experience its not an option for me.

The main deal breaker for me is, Uploading a file while downloading at the same time. I'm not even referring to Bit Torrent, if I am uploading a few files to my website, and I'm also downloading lets say a patch, my download speed is nearly crippled while uploading.

Sure it may seem minor to some people, but to me I can't stand it.
Oh and their equally unsavory "up to" 3Mbit down and 512Kbit up statement, When I had them I was lucky to get 2Mbit down and my up speed never got close to 512Kbit. I was close enough to the CO to get 6mbit speeds, yet couldn't actually get the full 3mbit.(6mbit tier has limited slots available)

So no AT&T please.

Yes! the little guy wins! I take offense about the being trained to enjoy their caps comment. The CEO's in their ivory towers assume we have no brains and will take whatever they decide to let us have. I think we have just proved them wrong.

"the best pricing plan for consumers" would be to leave the maximum usage level at the current pricing, without a cap, and lower the price for people who use low amounts of bandwidth. They will never be able to explain how raising prices are best for consumers.

*applauds* Thank you Time Warner.

Also, they don't need an intrusive program to tell you what you use monthly in bandwidth. A simple email from them would tell you. They have the ability to track it themselves. So much for caring to "educated the consumer" though.

I wonder how well these bandwidth monitors work on wifi accesspoints (with multiple pc's).

I also wonder howmany customers it will lose.
I guess they carefully analyzed the situation,and thought there weren't enough customers to start worrying.
I'd only say, if possible,get you and your friends to another internet connection!

No Problems with my Bell line. I pay $30 a month and get 6Mbit up and 1Mbit down with no bandwidth cap and no throttling. I will never switch to cable.

Correction: 6Mbit down 1Mbit up

horray, the consumer won...

$55 a month 30/5 never been "throttled" and I have CABLE. Everyone throttles at some point though...if its not our cable modem then its "throttled" at some peering point...so I guess every service provider is screwing their customers by not having unlimited bandwidth every hop a session takes....... The academics already figured out that it is counter-productive to throttle in a world with no politics and money but in the real world it must occur in some form at some point.

"Despite the tier program expansion being put on hold, Time Warner plans on 'continuing consumer education' on the matter, leaving the cancellation of the plan somewhat open-ended."

Yes, we are all stupid, stupid folk. TWC is oh so smart. In fact, they are shocked that they weren't smart enough to predict that their stupid costumers did not just take their abuse and said "Thank you. May I have another?" People just need to be "educated", read: swindled.

I've never been throttled either(with the exception of my plans max speed of course).....throttling isn't the main issue here, its the cap on consumption, and the overage charges. While most would prefer it the way it is now, Throttling would be preferred to overage charges IF we had to put up with caps, I mean if they cut it in half, I could live with 8Mbits down and keep downloading/streaming etc.

Doubtful..

Much like when you were younger and got caught doing something wrong, you don't stop doing, at least not right away. you simply try harder not to get caught.

Chuckie Schumer, man of the people - what a joke!

"I will make sure that any changes going forward are in line with..."

What a bunch of posing - TWC is free to setup pricing however misguided it is (unless they are gouging or violating laws). It's funny how he comes out with the statement AFTER TWC scrapped the plan - the guy is a joke! Next thing you know he'll have Cuomo shaking them down as well. Schumer had nothing to do with this and will have nothing to do with it - I hat politicians more interested in scoring points then doing their job.... this is not a federal issue that a US Senator should be dealing with - this should be left up to state government.

"It is clear from the public response over the last two weeks that there is a great deal of misunderstanding about our plans to roll out additional tests on consumption based billing"

The one who's misunderstanding is TWC. I'm in a bandwidth-capped service and it ain't fun ... unfortunately, no one cares about other ISPs esp. in other nations like my ISP in Canada. Consider TWC customers lucky.

YES! I was thinking this would never end. Thank god! Hopefully this is a example of the power comsumers have.


We should also learn as a consumer, this if we make a stand as a group, we will win. Quantity over quality.

Don't think the consumer has won, if there's one thing I've learned in life it's that these greedy bastards in corporate America will bleed you any way they can. Sure they put there plans on "hold" for now because of the bad pr there getting on this but they will "educate" you on there new plans shortly, they will introduce something that won't cause as much outcry and will lull you into a false sense that you won. The only way we win is for this shit to never appear again, but I'm all too afraid we haven't seen the last of this. I only hope when this is revisited again that no matter how much "better" it appears to be that customers will perform a mass exodus to other providers that aren't playing ball with said provider in providing tiered plans. That is the only thing big companies like this understand, they could care less about our "whining", they only see more or less $$$ at the end of the day and move accordingly.

This sounds like upload bandwidth saturation. Basically, a little bit of your upload bandwidth needs to be used to request new packets to download, and if it is all being used to upload a file, your download speeds gets crippled like that.

The solution is to use a file transfer program which allows you to cap the upload speed a few KB below maximum, so that you have some upload bandwidth left to be used to request new parts to download. There are FTP programs which can do this, and any decent filesharing program or bittorrent client can do this.

I have the same problem if I don't limit my upload speed during uploads. Doing so eliminates it.

Traffic caps are used in countries where the infrastructure isn't as developed. (Like Ukraine, where I live.) But as the competition increase and the ISPs build their infrastructure, the price for internet goes down and traffic cap goes away. For example, 3 years ago, I was using Cable internet, with traffic cap of 2 GB for about $200/mo. Now I have 10 MBit unlimited traffic fiber channel to home for a mere $50/mo

I think TWC is out of cash to keep its infrastructure fulfilling demand.

I want to see someone fired for suggesting such an idiotic and consumer unfriendly plan.

Horray~

Looks like the US took some drugs to slow the spread of the bandwidth cap infection. Good, hopefully (and I know I'm speaking of the impossible) it will cause a trickle-down effect on Australia.

It's so hard not to envision a South Park style group of corporate swine making that lughlughlughlughlugh sound around a big boardroom table, so angry that the consumers have spoken out against them.

I guess the profit margin graph, with the 75 degree arrow will have to wait for next year.

I never knew Belgium had such a bad infrastructure just kidding. It's corporate greed that provide these stupid caps. It makes no sense. If they need more money, it's fine, I don't mind paying a bit more, but not to fill the pockets of the exec's. If they upgraded to a 100 or 1000 package while they roll out this stupid idea, but a bit better thought out, I could see it having use.

But why do we have to pay the superfat paycheck of people who just sit in an office. That's why I don't like it. And caps don't make sense at all. What's next paying to use the highway, blegh, someone thought about that stupid idea too.

If they just upgraded their network, this wouldn't be a problem. We are moving all the services to the internet and we can't use stupid caps, that will only prevent innovation, not increase it. And I don't need to know how much bandwidth I use, I use what you provide, sometimes I use more and sometimes I use less. What's the point? So you want me to know I shouldn't be downloading a file, because it's a few gigs (like the eve client that doesn't work, I downloaded it 10 times, that's already 20gigs of lost bandwidth).

You see, caps make no sense, don't implement it, it will only hurt the consumers.

It just goes to show that there is fundamentally something very wrong with the "business strategy" of most BIG corporations in the U.S. It's called blind greed. It's the same thing that cost us all so much with the Banking and Auto industries. This is the same we just caught it sooner.

Thank god. I wasn't in their target zone for a cap but I would have jumped ship if they did for those areas. The only power I have as a consumer is whom I conduct business with. If I were to leave now as some suggest due to likelyhood this will be resurrected I would loose that power.

You will all be sorry when you are downloading a file at 6KB a sec because your stupid neighbors are downloading 9 million torrents and taking up all your bandwidth.

40GB/month is not enough, but boy would I like to make people pay $$$ for being a jerk about their Internet connection.