Time Warner Temporarily Less Greedy By Public Demand

The recent PR Bay of Pig by Time Warner shows that there is hell to pay when you mess with the public's unlimited access to porn, eh data.

So this is what being a victorious Cuban commie feels like.* Cool :)

The main reason TWC pisses me off? Mostly their desire to have the cake, molest it à la American Pie and then eat it too. TWC like most other major broadband ISPs seems to have a quasi-monopoly in their respective markets. It's inevitable that greed and lack of consequences will lead to crap like 40GB monthly cap or this seriously-it's-legal-to-do-this BS. I would have sooo paid cash to see a TWC exec meeting right after this thing blew up in their face!

I have used TWC as my broadband ISP since... HOLY CRAP, it's been my first and only broadband ISP! I still remember when the cable connection first went live at 2Mb/384Kb so many years ago. Right now I am on their "standard" connection, 7Mb/384Kb. Hmmm... the same upload speed for a decade?! That reminds me... this time last year I was going through TWC Hell, mainly because the node I was on was at 99% saturation between the hours of 5 pm to 3 am, and also the entire weekend. I spent countless hours with TWC support, who seemed to have a fetish of telling people to reboot their modems repeatedly. I was finally referred to a "tier 3" tech rep who really knew what was going on. She told me the node was essentially jammed, conveniently during hours when I am actually home and might want to use my paid connection. It was literally slower than dial-up. No exaggeration.

Loooooong story short, after 8 months of continuously bugging TWC, they finally split the node or whatever and I got a usable connection. During this entire "incident", I was still paying the Roadrunner standard fee.

Well, you know what I did when I heard TWC's "customers need more education" BS? I fired up uTorrent and started downloads for every Ubuntu and fedora distro images known to mankind, repeatedly :)~

I think I went through 40GB in three days or so. And that's just download :)


*no offense to Cubans, victors, current or ex-commies