Comments on: What Consumers think of Internet Bandwidth Caps http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/09/19/what-consumers-think-of-internet-bandwidth-caps/ Geek News Central is the technical weblog for Geeks. We Spin tech for the common man. With a twice weekly tech podcast Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:20:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Susabelle http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/09/19/what-consumers-think-of-internet-bandwidth-caps/comment-page-1/#comment-4232 Susabelle Mon, 22 Sep 2008 16:39:58 +0000 http://www.geeknewscentral.com/2008/09/19/what-consumers-think-of-internet-bandwidth-caps/#comment-4232 I live in the St. Louis metro area too. Dan is mistaken about multiple DSL choices. There is ATT, ATT, or ATT. Yes, you can go with the lone cable company, Charter, but if you've been a long-time (or even short-term) customer of them, you have experienced outages lasting not hours but days, and amazingly poor customer service that has netted Charter multiple BBB and FCC complaints. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> I wish there were more choice, it would bring everyone in line with what the CUSTOMER wants, instead of what the monopoly wants. <span class="mt-export2wp"></span> I don't have a problem with caps as long as there's a (reasonable) way to pay more for additional service. We don't used 20 gb of bandwidth in our house at the moment. I'm not producing new media, however, and I'm sure that's part of why I'm not using that much to begin with, even though I have five people, each with their own computers, and two extra computers just for grins. I live in the St. Louis metro area too. Dan is mistaken about multiple DSL choices. There is ATT, ATT, or ATT. Yes, you can go with the lone cable company, Charter, but if you’ve been a long-time (or even short-term) customer of them, you have experienced outages lasting not hours but days, and amazingly poor customer service that has netted Charter multiple BBB and FCC complaints.

I wish there were more choice, it would bring everyone in line with what the CUSTOMER wants, instead of what the monopoly wants.

I don’t have a problem with caps as long as there’s a (reasonable) way to pay more for additional service. We don’t used 20 gb of bandwidth in our house at the moment. I’m not producing new media, however, and I’m sure that’s part of why I’m not using that much to begin with, even though I have five people, each with their own computers, and two extra computers just for grins.

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