Time Warner Cable has a new way of dealing with its best customers people who use too much bandwidth: disconnecting them.

TWC is not the first company to play this game. Dave Winer wrote last year, "As long as I've been a customer of Comcast I've been writing how much I wish they'd sell their Internet business to a company that doesn't hate its customers so much."

Comments

[justcorbly]

How is a T-W customer supposed to measure how much of the company's precious bandwidth he is actually using?

I've been a T-W customer for a long time and they've never offered me a little gizmo that does that. Not that i wouldn't need to be convinced of its accuracy.

How much use is "excessive" use? Does T-W attach real numbers to that?

Of course, it's all kinda silly, because demands on the network change all the time. What's excessive at 3 pm is not so excessive at 3 am.

It's just one more example of the kind of arrogant behavior we should expect from a monopolist.

[liv]

Ed, if they pull that crap with me just once... I'm gone permanently This is pre-obama crap that got this country in the crap hole it is.

I don't care if I have to string freakin tin cans together to use the internet.... If they mess with me I'm gone. Forever.