[geeks] Why I hate Verizon Online

[Michael Parson]

On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 09:10:44AM -0500, Mike F wrote:
> Jonathan Groll wrote:
>> On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 12:32:01AM -0600, Bill Bradford wrote:
>>  
>>   
>>> I just can't beat $17.95/month for 3/512 DSL.  I've had maybe two outages
>>> in the past six to nine months that I can remember, and none of them
>>> lasting more than thirty minutes
>>>     
>>
>> I always get sickened when I read how cheap US bandwith is.
>>
>> Here in South Africa, because of monopolistic tendancies from the main
>> telecomms provider, I pay something like:
>>
>> ZAR490.00 (=USD $68) per month for 384kbps ADSL, 
>>
>> BUT and here's the clincher the above price is for an account with a
>> 4GiB international cap, so if I exceed total throughput of 4 GiB to
>> international hosts my account gets terminated unless I pay more money.
>>
>> Are there caps at all on the accounts discussed above?
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jonathan.
>>
>>   
> US DSL in general, and SBC/AT&T in particular, does not have any
> transfer limits. Cable internet service, however, does; download/upload
> too much on cable and you'll get a nastygram from the ISP.

I'm on TimeWarner Roadrunner Cable and I've *never* gotten a nasty-gram
from them bitching about my usage.  Even with torrents running for days,
sometimes weeks at a time.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson at bl.org