Time Warner is acting like a small child now that it has failed to force people into a tier system on their network. Somehow Time Warner is claiming that its rollout of “wideband” (DOCSIS 3.0) was closely tied to its network tiering. Basically Time Warner has turned into a kid saying “Well if I don’t get my way then you wont get what you want” of course this is really just creating more of a problem for Time Warner. People want more bandwidth and would be willing to pay. But why the hell would you pay for a DOCSIS 3.0 connection if you could not use it? What is the purpose at a 50 mbps connection if you can only download 100 gigs? Did Time Warner really expect people to take a speed upgrade if its only useful for a small amount of time do to caps? The biggest problem here is they ware UPGRADING their network. With that in mind why would they need to cap it as there should be more of a capacity and they should be able to easily handle the added downloads. Of course once again its most likely Time Warner doesn’t want you downloading content from the Internet and circumventing Cable. Well in the end Time Warner fails. Hopefully Comcast will take the cue and find some way to move more into Time Warner’s territory. The last thing I would like to point out is I do understand network upgrades are probably not the most easy thing, but I don’t think bandwidth caps are going to make a transition any easier.
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