Talk:Bright House Networks

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Bandwidth Throttling/Trafic Shaping?

Bandwidth throttling is a huge issue right now for consumers and a lot of ISPs are doing it by restricting applications and limiting bandwidth for others, such as bittorrent traffic. If anyone has any information on whether Bright House does it or not, it should be posted. My personal experience is that it appears that Bright House may be doing it (in comparison to my use of Comcast and other ISPs), but I don't have solid info. Jamie 20:52, 9 July 2007 (UTC)

As a Brighthouse Networks Employee and subscriber I can tell you that we do not participate in Traffic Shaping. Charles 01:08, 24 July 2007 (UTC)

Brighthouse might not limit traffic but they have many issues with their service that I believe need to be mentioned. Multiple times a week their internet service will go down. Also, the quality of thier digital tv service is terrible. I have been to many customers houses, and have not seen one decent picture quality on screen (for both SDTVs and HDTVs). —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvferret (talk • contribs) 00:57, 8 April 2008 (UTC)

I disagree and believe you may be making a hasty generalization. The quality of all the services is, at the very least, similar to the other major cable/phone/internet provider, in my opinion superior. Not to mention multiple J.D. Power and Associates' Awards and the fact that Bright House Networks provides internet to almost every counties' school system and government in Tampa Bay. Also, weigh the abundant negative press the other major carrier has received in local media, most notably, Tampa Tribune. Charles 07:26, 23 June 2008 (UTC)

Hate to tell you, but you are wrong. My cousin still has bright house and has many of the issues I had. I switched over too ATT DSL and have had hardly any problems with them. JD Power means nothing. The internet at the schools here (in Orlando)...thats a joke. Problems with it all the time and usually pretty slow. I dont know about thier service in Tampa, but atleast in Orange/Brevard county, its pretty lousy.Dvferret (talk) 17:08, 18 August 2009 (UTC)

While it is possible that your cousin made have had service issues, they were not related to Bandwidth Throttling/Trafic Shaping. Charles 08:54, 19 September 2009 (UTC)

I never said they were related to throttling issues. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dvferret (talk • contribs) 01:06, 29 June 2010 (UTC)

Fair use rationale for File:Bright house.JPG

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Employee Number

Hi, I see that the ref page says 100 employees, which I think is wrong, I see their fleet of trucks ALL the time, the numbers on their truck's range from 1-450(highest I have seen), how do they have a huge fleet? and 100 employees, we need better research on the employee number. AntiVanMan (talk) 01:50, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

Yes, I also noticed the Employee number. That is way off. Being an employee in the Bakersfield division (the smallest division) I can tell you there's at least 100 just here. We have Installers, Contractors, Service Techs, PM Techs, Construction, locators, auditors, engineers, ect. This list doesn't even include all the departments in the office which also has its own call center. So yes the 100 definetly needs to be updated.

-Cableguy —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.85.225.224 (talk) 04:33, 14 January 2008 (UTC)

Problem is that Yahoo! is reporting "placeholder" information that is probably just pulled out of some financial "bot"'s rear end. This is because Bright House is privately held. If you just do a projection of their number of employees and revenue (another figure that can't be right), based on a pro-rate of Comcast and Time Warner, you'd have to imagine that they have $2.5 billion revenue, $250 million in EBITDA profit, and 8,000 employees. Just educated guesses. But, since this is Wikipedia, nobody will actually change the article here, since it's quoting a "reliable source" and there aren't other verifiable sources to supplant the bot-filled placeholder data. - John Russ Finley (talk) 20:36, 17 January 2008 (UTC)

Someone really should do something about these numbers as they are absurd. I tried to replace them both with 'Unknown' but I relizied I would screw up the page if I made the changes. I love Johns 'reliable source' quote above. I assume this means that if a 'reliable source' says the moon is made from green cheese, then from henceforth in the Wikipedia world it is made of green cheese. And the PTB wonder why Wikipedia has a credibility problem. 67.9.37.187 (talk) 11:47, 21 May 2008 (UTC)

News service discontinued

On Monday, June 23, 2008, Bright House discontinued their newsgroup service. Worth a mention? 72.189.248.245 (talk) 15:15, 26 June 2008 (UTC)

Not really because they had been using newshosting for a while anyway. On June the 23 their use of newshosting just became a lot more explicit. 97.96.59.27 (talk) 23:32, 2 July 2008 (UTC)

News service clarification

To clarify this issue, Bright House Networks continues to provide their Road Runner customers with newsgroup access at no additional charge through Newshosting.com right here http://www.newshosting.com/bhn-en/. 70.126.196.118 (talk) 23:03, 30 October 2008 (UTC)BHN Insider

Another carriage dispute in the making- with the News Corporation networks/stations

well Bright House Networks and Time Warner Cable seems to be facing a possible carriage disputer with the News Corporation owned cable networks and TV stations. this will start on January 1, 2010. in fact Fox has started a campaign to demand there viewers to make Time Warner Cable & Bright House Networks not pull the News Corporation Cable channels and FOX and MyNetworkTV O&O Stations off of Time Warner Cable and Bright House Networks. in fact here's that site: http://www.keepfoxon.com--Boutitbenza 69 9 (talk) 21:22, 19 December 2009 (UTC)

More sources: Orlando Sentinel post Jerr (talk) 00:03, 23 December 2009 (UTC)

This happens to all carriers all the time. It does not seem encyclopedic. If you surf to http://www.keepfoxon.com its geared towards Cablevision subscribers. The idea is to scare consumers into calling their provider when the provider is trying to negotiate lower prices on behalf of the subscriber. In other words, Fox wants more money and in the end subscribers will have to pay for any increases. Charles 04:18, 3 October 2010 (UTC)

Ownership/Naming

We say
> All of the systems now owned by Bright House were owned by the Time Warner Entertainment - Advance/Newhouse Partnership but, under a deal struck in 2003, Advance/Newhouse took direct management and operational responsibility for portion of the partnership cable systems roughly equal to their equity.

But that's not quite accurate. A friend of mine -- I'm trying to figure out a suitable way to source this -- was employed by them all the way back to when they were Vision Cable, competing with Paragon in Pinellas County, FL, and tells me her paychecks have *always* said "Advance/Newhouse Cable Partnership", whether the branding was VC, TW or BH.
--Baylink (talk) 03:54, 14 March 2011 (UTC)

Sorry for the content removal:

I regret the removal of two sections from the article. User talk:BHNtechXpert forgot to add references to the dispute section and has since been removed with respect to WP:NEUTRAL. Fairly OddParents Freak (Fairlyoddparents1234) 23:02, 29 November 2012 (UTC)

Removal of "Awards and Recognition" section?

I'm not an experienced Wikipedian, but I feel like the "Awards and Recognition" section needs to go. It's an advertisement. It doesn't cite any sources, it's got a skewed POV, and it doesn't contribute anything meaningful to the article. Would I be violating any rules of etiquette if I just gave it the axe? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 107.10.250.11 (talk) 06:39, 30 November 2012 (UTC)

Tampa Bay systems

[ I see I've already addressed this above on a different point. Sorry ]

> and the Tampa Bay/Orlando Time Warner Communications (previously Time Inc.'s American Television & Communications before the Time Warner merger) systems in Florida.

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With the exception of the Paragon homes Bright House picked up in St Petersburg, all the Bright House customers in Pinellas County FL were always customers of Advance/Newhouse, which has owned the major primary cable company in the county since before I moved here in 1981. Vision Cable, then Time Warner, through a marketing agreement tied to the usage of the Road Runner trademark, and now Bright House; I've known people who've been employees in all three regimes, and all tell me their paychecks have been made out by "Advance/Newhouse Cable Partnership", for the entire 35 years. So I have to assume the quoted graf above is inaccurate. I don't have a quotable cite, but I don't see one on that either. So unless someone can provide one, I'm going to take it out.
--Baylink (talk) 00:07, 26 May 2015 (UTC)

Page name

This article was moved from Bright House Networks to Bright House Networks Spectrum, but I have reverted the move - for identical reasons as spelled out at Talk:Time Warner Cable#Page name. --- Barek (talk • contribs) - 00:02, 2 February 2017 (UTC)