[citation][nom]Buzzcut[/nom]I'm debating whether to give these guys a try. One problem is that you can't see their plans ahead of time. It was news to me that they cap data AND have speed tiers. $10 a month for 10GB is appealing if I'm getting 12 mbps. Not so much at 1.5 mbps.Also, I need about 25 megs per month. How much is that going to cost me?Maybe this isn't really cheaper than my AT&T DSL? 6 megs down, 1.5 up for ~$50 a month. Under 30 ms latency.[/citation]
it all depends on what you are doing. For me personally, it would be an awful deal. We do not have television or cable TV in the house because we find it much cheaper and convenient to watch what we want, when we want, via download services like netflix, hulu, or station websites. Because of all that video streaming we can easily hit a few hundred GBs per month for the house, and when we were really into a few HD shows at the same time we actually streamed 1TB of internet in a month, which was pretty shocking to me.
At 1 cent per MB that would be a $10,000 bill with this 'free' plan, while through TWC it was $45.
However, I work at a nonprofit that provides computers for low income families, seniors, and students. For many of them this is their first computer, and for many of them all they are doing is simple research online, email, and some social networking... for that type of use I could see this really helping them out. The cheapest deal in town right now is $20/mo for 768kbps DSL (which requires a phone line), or $25/mo for 768kbps cable (no phone line). $25/mo is a huge price to pay when you are on a fixed income (of which food and housing eats 90% of), and I am sure many of them could save a ton of money on this type of plan.
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