Reports are filtering in from Texas, Time Warner that began experimenting with bandwidth caps, and it looks like the Itunes store when visited from a Time Warner system is having issues. When taken in context of time warner’s caps on bandwidth.
When you consider that the average song is 5 megabytes in size, and the average 40 minute tv show is 500 megabytes in size (let alone movies topping out at 1.4 gigabytes in size), and how much money you want to spend, if an ISP caps you at 20 Gig’s a month, you can pretty much so wipe out downloading legal paid for material fairly quickly.
Not adding to than streaming flash movies from YouTube that tries to compress each video into a 100 megabyte chunk (regardless of what you uploaded, YouTube in their support pages says that each video is compressed down to 100 megabytes), standard surfing, those big reports when you are working from home (some power points top out at 10 megs), e-mail, and the host of other things that are done on the Internet including games, you pretty much so end up with a disaster looming.
If you are a big YouTube fan, make your own video’s, or a big Itunes or Unbox fan, bandwidth caps are going to hurt, not just in being chopped off the network or having to pay additional for additional bandwidth, but the quality and service of the store is going to suffer.
No one will think it is a Time Warner issue, they will blame the store. They will contact the stores customer service wanting to know what the issue is and why their service stinks. For once it will not be the stores fault if you live in Texas, it will be all time warner all the time.
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