Milwaukee HDTV User Group

FYI, if you reboot your modem, you should be showing faster speeds.

They used to pad connections by 10%, so their 50 / 5 Mbps tier was actually 55 / 5.5 Mbps.

Now they seem to be padding them by 20%; I am routinely getting 60 / 6 Mbps on speed tests now.

Time Warner is apparently adding this garbage channel soon.

What a waste of bandwidth.

Well I didn't mention these even though I noticed them a week ago because I figured their addition to the guide was imminent but the incompetents at our TWC division still haven't added them to the guide and it's been over two weeks since the scheduled add date.

If you manually punch in these channel #s you can tune to them already. They aren't in the guide yet:

Fox Sports Detroit in Marinette on Ch. 1312
CSN HD in Kenosha on Ch. 1311
Revolt HD on Ch. 1264
Al Jazeera America HD on Ch. 1376

I've been talking to him about moving its hosting and keeping it running.

You can already do that.

All you have to do is stop watching Brewers games.

Problem solved! :wave:

Sounds good to me.

It's going to have to get worse before it gets better.

Hopefully Dish Network merges with them after this too...

Quote from: Jack 1000;59844Good article on Internet Broadband caps.  As of May 2012, it says Comcast raised the limit to 300GB's of download per month and now they don't enforce it.

How much data would that be considering movies and streaming?

http://gigaom.com/2012/10/01/data-caps-chart/

Jack

That would be approximately six dual layer Blu-rays or six 4K movies assuming you didn't use your Internet connection for anything else that month.

I hope you don't like PC gaming either as games like Max Payne 3 from Steam require a 30 GB download or Call of Duty: Ghosts is 50 GB.

Also, if you subscribe to a porn site, I hope you like only being able to download 100 movies instead of being able to subscribe to a porn site for one month, download the entire site, and then cancel your membership to that site. Under Comcast's stifling caps you can no longer cost effectively save entire porn sites whereas with a Time Warner connection you can subscribe to a site like Brazzers for $20, download their entire site, and be set with a massive catalog of 1080p porn for life.

Also, I hope you guys don't care about actually being able to back your data up to a offsite cloud storage provider so that you're not one of the legions of people crying when their hard drive fails or they get robbed/their house burns down/floods/gets hit by a tornado, etc.

I have over 50 TB of data I have to keep backed up to the cloud and Comcast would expect me to pay them $10,000 in overage fees or spend 14 years spacing out my uploading to use under 300 GB of data each month for 167 months in order to do that. To put that into perspective, you can buy EIGHTY 4 terabyte hard drives (yes, PHYSICAL products), for a total amount of 320 TB of storage space, and then rent a safety deposit box at a bank and store some of your data in there, for the same amount of money that Comcast wants to charge you in 'overage fees' to send 50 TB of data via the Internet.

Something ain't right with this picture. Remember in the 1990's when it was more cost effective to physically buy hard drives and pay for shipping to move data around than it was to just use your Internet connection? Comcast wants to take us all back to those days. Comcast wants to introduce us to an Internet dark age.

Quote from: Jack 1000;59836I have been talking to subs about Comcast's bandwidth caps.  They say in many markets,  they aren't even turned on, and I know one guy that downloads like 1TB of stuff a month and Comcast has said nothing, so I wouldn't worry about it.

Irrelevant. It isn't going to stay that way forever. Comcap is clearly on a path of rolling out a cap nationwide and implementing overage charges. You'd be a fool not to see it.

They want to strangle your bandwidth usage and wring out some extra cash just like the mobile providers, and as a monopoly they're in a position to do it. By the time this deal is completed I'm sure they'll have rolled out their caps and overages to more of their territory.

I couldn't give two shits about if Comcast has a better guide on their crappy boxes or not. That is wholly irrelevant. CableCARD tuners work on Comcast and on Time Warner so there is no need for a cable company provided box on either provider. A CableCARD tuner + Media Center interface blows away any cable company DVR. I see this much like the console peasants who get so excited over their new PS4s or Xbox Ones... who cares? You guys are literally debating over which pile of crap emits the least amount of odor. I've had a gaming PC for years that blows every console out of the water just like I've had a media center PC that blows away any cable company box. When such a superior option exists to you it's like fighting over table scraps when a nice juicy steak is sitting right there.

Have fun with the bandwidth caps, guys.

Comcap's latest scam is implementing a 300 GB cap and $10 per 50 GB overage fees on their subscribers.

So if you were to subscribe to Comcast's 300 Mbps tier and use it 24/7 the whole month they will send you a bill for over $20,000.

Meanwhile, on Time Warner, if you get their 100 Mbps tier and use it 24/7 for a month no ****s are given.

I hope you don't actually use your broadband connection for any sort of modern technology because your bill is fixing to shoot up like crazy.

Has anyone else noticed an awful lot of game shows popping up on NBC lately?

America's Got Talent? Million Dollar Quiz? Hollywood Game Night?

I think Time Warner was trying to tell us something by replacing NBC with the Gameshow Network.

The affiliates are always to blame.

They want to have their cake and eat it too.

They make more money from advertising than any cable channel because their networks have the largest audiences which is a result of them having the widest distribution because they are also available over-the-air.

The affiliates want their expanded advertising revenue and high carriage fees that cable-only networks get to boot. Cable networks have to have carriage fees because their audiences are not as large as the 'free' networks. They cannot make a sufficient income from advertising alone.

It's greed, plain and simple.

Plus, I completely despise the affiliate model anyway. They are leeches, nothing more. Their only purpose is to distract and annoy by constantly inserting themselves in-between me and NBC, CBS, etc. national programming.

I do not give two ****s about local "breaking news," "it's really cold today! Here's an annoying temperature gauge we're going to spam over NBC's programming for you! Because apparently cell phones aren't A Thing™ and you don't always have a mobile thermometer in your pocket at all times!" or "hey, check out our cool local channel bug! Let's just plaster that right next to the ABC logo on all ABC programming for you. Isn't that nice? Aren't you glad we're your source for ABC's programs instead of just getting it from ABC themselves?," or "well, there's obviously been a bad storm last night. Let's assume you're too stupid to have a quick look on the Internet to check if where you're wanting to go today is open. Instead we'll just annoy you with a squished picture and an endless scrolling list of places you don't care about that have closed today! Wheee!"

I want to watch network programming and I do not want to be spammed by this trash from a useless middleman.

Hah, WTMJ is ****.

Glad I've got satellite antennas, over-the-air antennas, and Internet access.

Good luck blocking all those other sources of NBC programming, WTMJ! I never watched your **** channel before and I will never watch it after this is all over. :wave:

Why would WMAQ be removed? It is NBC O&O.

EarthLink does not offer the DOCSIS 3.0 speed tiers.

The employees working at the Kenosha offices aren't the brightest people around.

Just use the online form to order one and they'll ship you a digital adapter from Milwaukee. You should have it in a day.