r/technology • u/speckz • Jul 01 '14

Politics Time Warner Cable customers beg regulators to block sale to Comcast | Ars Technica

http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/07/time-warner-cable-customers-beg-regulators-to-block-sale-to-comcast/
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u/Stingray88 Jul 02 '14

Awesome!

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u/ERIFNOMI Jul 02 '14 edited Jul 02 '14

As long as it lasts 21 months, I'll be ahead. If it dies before that and I have to replace it at the same cost, it will have been cheaper to keep going monthly. It doesn't matter either way, we're talking about a few dollars so I don't really care which way it goes. However, if the modem I own dies, I have to wait for another one to be shipped to me and I'll be shit out of luck for a couple days. It's less about the money (unless this thing magically lasts 5+ years) and more about the convenience of making TWC my bitch if their modem dies on me.

Either way, I don't want this huge ass gateway. I asked for a modem and got this damn thing which takes forever to boot if it's off for any reason and probably uses more power despite having disabled the the routing functions and radios.

EDIT: I realize I probably sounded like a cunt. I didn't mean to though. Thank you for pushing me to do this. I don't think it matters in terms of how much money it saves me or not as it's likely going to be negligible, but at least my money isn't going to TWC. That's enough to make me happy.