This discussion at broadbandhelp.com
[TWC] TW Officially Announces Packet Shaping for All RR Users
From Time Warner's Help DeskTIME WARNER ANNOUNCES INTRODUCTION OF PACKET SHAPING TECHNOLOGY NATIONWIDE
June 6, 2007 -- Time Warner today implemented a network management tool to improve the operation of the network for all subscribers. As a result, a small minority of users may experience slower speeds during peak hours when using certain applications that consume lots of bandwidth. You can address this situation by reducing your use of bandwidth-intensive applications during peak hours. "Peak hours" are generally in the evenings.
"Packet shaping" technology has been implemented for newsgroup applications, regardless of the provider, and all peer-to-peer networks and certain other high bandwidth applications not necessarily limited to audio, video, and voice over IP telephony. Road Runner reserves the right to implement network management tools for other applications in the future.
and this one from ZDNet
Leading ISPs sign up for Goodmail antispam service
Five of the largest Internet service providers in the U.S. plan to start charging businesses for guaranteed delivery of their e-mails, in a bid to combat spam.
Goodmail Systems, which provides a service called CertifiedEmail, announced Thursday that it had signed up Comcast, Cox Communications, Time Warner Cable's Road Runner and Verizon as customers. E-mails certified using the system will be marked with a blue ribbon to show they come from a trusted source, thus bypassing spam filters--a privilege that will cost the sender a quarter of a U.S. cent per e-mail.
The voluntary plan is aimed at large corporations and financial institutions whose mass mailings are most likely to be caught in spam filters. Nonprofit groups will be able to use the service for roughly a tenth of the commercial rate.
show that while the reality-based community keeps talking, corporations will act, creating a new reality to be analyzed and reacted to.
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ISDN Pricing
The Baby Bells never wanted something like the current scheme for DSL or fiber (Verizon FIOS). You pay more, per month, for your theoretical top upload/download speed. They wanted pricing to reflect actual bandwidth used, period.
The ISDN model worked for businesses who used ISDN because they couldn't afford T1 pricing, but needed the network speed and Internet access.
Since Bells had to go to the local government to get permission on the pricing scheme, their attempts failed. But this latest scheme is the way they will get it.
It's their right since they own the network, but it blows.
The Baby Bells never
Unfortunately, what they promised was real broadband for cheap, just like Korea has.