Yeah, this is beyond stupid. What a bunch of idiots. This isn't so much a test of whether this is a good idea, this is a test of how many customers they will lose if they do it. I have some info for you Time Warner and its in my pants. If you do this c*** to me, i will switch to another internet provider. if they have caps, I WILL JUST STOP USING THE INTERNET AT HOME.

If they try this the gov't should step in and say its not allowed. these buttmutts have monopolies in most of their regions.

Get off Time Warner, cancel your high speed and tell them to stick where the sun don't shine!

40 gigs per month works out to 15k/sec of continuous download. That doesn't sound like a lot to me. Dialup can almost do that.

So they should change their marketing. Get a cable modem, if you want to use it a lot, you might as well get a dialup connection.

Not T/W so much as all you. Heaven forbid a company try something different! And it's only a test in one town. You people make it sound like you're going to wake up tomorrow and find your internet cut-off or something.

As to this is a test of how many customers they will lose if they do it., that's just plain wrong. If they wanted to test that, they would have changed EXISTING customers. You can't lose customers who haven't signed up yet. What it would tell them is how much it would affect signing up new customers.

But, I guess I missed the part where you were promised a lifetime of unlimited, high-capacity internet access. But it has been a while since I read the articles of confederation. Maybe it's in there.

starting to suck. I'm stuck with TimeWarner for the time being until Verizon FiOS gets put in my neighborhood. Their HD cable service is expensive and is rather compressed and pixelated. Now this capping on internet downloads. It's the pits. I could live with 40 GB download, but 20 is unacceptable. I could easily download that much video in a week if I wanted to. As the files get larger, the bandwidth gets smaller. Pathetic.

i hope TW clients will start to leave that company by the thousands...!!!!

Testudo, you really are a troll without a cause. This is a test to see how many customers they may lose. Potential customers are still customers, and they know at what rate new customers have been signing up. Once the new caps go into place, they can see how much that fluctuates.

You've also read where current customers may leave even though they won't be capped. It's called principles, something that is foreign to you.

I know if Insight does something like this in my area I will go back to AT&T DSL. I've been used to unlimited internet access since the AOL dialup days when they first introduced the $19.99 a month unlimited model.

Limits on Internet bandwidth is completely unacceptable.