The “Break it Down” Blog

In a move that will advance fuckup US broadband deployment Time Warner has decided to trial a bandwidth-capped consumption model starting in Texas.

The gripe most people have with their solution to the problem of being unable to grow their network at the same rate as some 3rd world countries is to make their top-tier 15mb/down service have a 40GB/month consumption cap. Any GB over will cost you $1/mo extra on your bill.

So with this service, using YouTube, some BitTorrent and maybe watching a few trailers, you can fucking wipe out your quota in 3 days… awesome.

The baseline 768kbps/down service has a 5GB cap putting us back in line with kick-ass dial-up modem days and bandwidth caps on par with India’s ISPs.

I’m really hoping that by 2050 we are able to compete for 27th place in world-wide connectivity and broadband dissemination; not that this idea isn’t awesome, and I don’t appreciate Time-Warners desire to walk us back to days of feudal Japan, I’d just like to be able to use my Apple TV without racking up a $100/mo internet bill.