Dekar12
Gawd
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- Oct 2, 2003
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I dumped Spectrum/TWC because of this.. went with AT&T 1k fiber.. when I had Spectrum they would throttle me on Netflix, my online games, or just general browsing.. Sitting there watching a movie in HD and suddenly it cuts to pixelated SD and stays there. You call and complain and they state their TOS allows them to reduce service speeds during peak usage hours, but REFUSE to state or explain what a 'peak usage hour' actually is, or even when. Trying to hit various news web sites from CNN, Fox, to Reuters, anything.. would get a 'network not found' error for a good 5 minutes before I could connect again and read my morning feeds.
Started getting these odd notices about downloading copy-written content, and was denied access to my ISP until after I 'agreed' to not download copywritten material any more... I hadn't been online in over a week with my computer OFF while I was in California... wtf? Done with that insanity.
Thats great that you even had a choice of a different provider.
In my area, we have Verizon DSL as the only other viable "highspeed" product in our area. Close by there is Verizon FIOS, but it isnt in all areas here.
Spectrum inherited a large mess from TWC, problems that I don't think any company can just fix in a few years to totally correct every single issue.
My biggest worry is if this actually goes through with NY kicking Spectrum out of the state, who is going to buy the cable business? They are going to have the same exact equipment that is available right now and they are going to be in the same exact position as Spectrum was in a couple of years, because it will take billions of dollars to get what NY wants the cable company to do.
The smarter move is that NY fines the company, get paid and reinforce the details of their merger approval with larger fines if they are not complying in another year.