Wireless.. What I fool I was!!

[dspete]

When we moved here from the Great SLC area to the peaceful-Cold -Snowy Tahoe area I signed up for Time Warner Cable Internet at the normal price of 43.00 a month for 12 mbps yada yada internet you know pretty much like Comcast. I never really hit 12 Mbps but about 9 on the download you know pretty average . Anywhoooo a rep from A4 Wireless came knocking on the door *knock *knock.....Hey we have a new service in the Tahoe area for internet we come install a dish like system point it at the tower and TA-DA fast internet. Well there sale was we run 7 - 10 Mbps down and around 2 - 3 up all this for 21.99 a month. WOW half price and the install was free so on January 8th a cold snowy day the installer came and did his thing in 2 feet of snow and within 2 hours it was rockin' as a matter of fact the first month Jan 9th to Feb 9th it was to me a great speed no problems, Then came month 2....yea it rocks for about 3 hours with people doing work kids playing XBOX Live a little Netflix then the brakes hit or as A4 Wireless calls throttling...Called A4 about this and they did there system check and said the signals great but you've hit your daily limit and we need to throttle you back? Well my family is no Internet using abusers and I'm not downloading Illegal files but they said we've hit our max!!
What a mistake!!!!Really thought I had a winner there but as usual backhanded smack and now I need to wait until the end of April to go back to Time Warner and that's because I need to be disconnected for over 90 days to get any good deal because I would be considered a new customer and now my little gripe about that why not say HEY!!! We want you back so here's what we'll do!!!!!!
And now I step down from the BOX and give it to the next person...

Oh I believe that BlueZone and Digis is equivalent to A4 wireless in the SLC area...

[CAwasinNJ]

Do they at least have a meter where you can view how much you've used so far in the billing period? It seems like everyone in the shared connection biz is doing this. That's a huge problem with systems like that as well as cable. Fortunately there isn't that issue with DSL, but that won't stop some companies from trying.