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Derspankster @ 5th Jul 10:02AM:
Quite a Difference
What a difference between standard and premium! When and if they ever get to the Columbus, Ohio area, I hope they don't drop my standard to 4 Mbps from the 5 I get now.
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Doctor Four @ 5th Jul 10:13AM:
Time Warner, fix your network first!
As a soon to be former Roadrunner user, I can say that
Time Warner needs to repair its own network first before
offering speed upgrades.
What good is 15/2 when the service is down half the time?
Inheriting Comcast and Adelphia users and then adding
new customers on top of that, and implementing their
so-called QoS (traffic shaping), without making upgrades
to the infrastructure isn't going to cut it. And it shows,
from the ridiculously long times to wait for a tech to
come out (that is even if they do), to their attitude of
saying it is on the customer's end, to the long phone
hold times.
Service was rock solid when Comcast was in town. It has
gone to s**t since TWC took over.
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ke4pym @ 5th Jul 10:26AM:
Now that's worth the upgrade price!
I pay $49.99 for 5/384. I'd be willing to pay another $8 or so for 15/2. Now $8 gets you something on the order of 8/512.
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ignatiuskc @ 5th Jul 11:46AM:
More HD
I want more HD channels, not more Mbps.
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anon @ 5th Jul 12:08PM:
Re: Now that's worth the upgrade price!
Exactly!
I pay $39.95 for 5/384 (also a digital TV / phone customer).
For an additional $9.95 a month I can slap on RR turbo for 8/512. The measly increase in upstream isn't worth it in my opinion, and the 8 down is just a little extra bonus.
If TWC's Raleigh division changed Turbo to 8/1 or 8/2 I'd be calling up as quickly as I could to add it for an extra $9.95. I would love to have 10-15Mbps down to go along with that increased upstream, but if 8Mbps is all they can manage, I'd be perfectly happy with it as long as I can get 1-2Mbps up.
I'm really curious to know if TWC has any sort of national upgrade plan... other than only upgrading areas with immediate competition. If that's the case, I guess most of NC is going to be stuck on DOCSIS 1.1 for the next 10-25 years. :(
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davoice @ 5th Jul 12:32PM:
Re: Now that's worth the upgrade price!
said by nc rr user :
If that's the case, I guess most of NC is going to be stuck on DOCSIS 1.1 for the next 10-25 years. :(
Luckily Durham is ex-GTE Verizon territory. And they are seeing some FiOS deployment. That should motivate at least the Durham side of the Raleigh market. Too bad that won't help those of us in the Greensboro market at all.
I pay for Turbo and like many others wish they'd make it 8/1 instead of 8/512. 8 down is fine for me. But I came to RR from Embarq DSL (in Person County) where in e-podunk the speeds were 5x896. I can really feel the loss of upload speed since I telecommute.
}Davoice
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n2jtx @ 5th Jul 01:44PM:
Optimum Online
Standard Optimum Online already gets 15/2 BUT there isn't a heck of a lot out there that can push a sustained 15mbit/second to you so it is kind of pointless at the moment. BitTorrent is probably one of the few services that can fully utilize it.
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jc100 @ 5th Jul 01:53PM:
Ohio
Ohio went from 5 / 385 = 8 / 512 for regular last month
and premium from 8/512 to 15 / 768
wish we would get that better upload...
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chiefeyes @ 5th Jul 02:23PM:
Re: Ohio
Premier Buffalo, New York, customers in our Roadrunner/Time Warner Cable forum report they're now seeing the faster 15Mbps/2Mbps speeds ($57.95/month)."
Here in Maine , I get 8Mbps/512kbps for $59.95. In fairness, I should mention we also get a free tube of KY jelly monthly to help ease the pain ;)
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ke4pym @ 5th Jul 02:40PM:
Re: Now that's worth the upgrade price!
Interestingly enough, Verizon is in one county over and as far as I can tell, there is no FIOS deployments going on over there.
One county over and up has a lil ole mom and pop phone company (was CTC, now Windstream) offering 10/1 DSL for $29.99/mo for the first 12 months. TimeWarner just says "see ya" when you tell them about the deal (or has for a half dozen coworkers who've jumped on the package).
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ke4pym @ 5th Jul 02:45PM:
Re: Optimum Online
said by n2jtx :
Standard Optimum Online already gets 15/2 BUT there isn't a heck of a lot out there that can push a sustained 15mbit/second to you so it is kind of pointless at the moment. BitTorrent is probably one of the few services that can fully utilize it.
Having 2Mb/sec up sure would have made my picture uploads go a lot faster. Took almost 30 minutes to transfer a dozen or so images yesterday.
And it is kinda like the chicken and the egg syndrome. People don't have bandwidth so I'm not going to make a killer app. There are no killer high bandwidth apps because there are no systems out there to use it....
We need the bandwidth. Now.
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fireflier @ 5th Jul 02:52PM:
Better upload speed is a good start
My 5 Mb/s down is working fine for me at the moment, but 384 Kb/s up kinda sucks. I don't think I'd need 15 down but wouldn't mind paying a little extra to get 2Mb/s up! I'm not running a web site, torrents or other consistent-high bandwidth services, but being able to speed up photo/audio uploads for the occasional need would sure be nice.
Used to have about 1Mb/s up with Adelphia. Once RR assimilated their network in my area, the speeds dropped to barely 384 kb/s. I hadn't given much thought to decent upload speeds until that happened. :huh:
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davoice @ 5th Jul 03:11PM:
Re: Now that's worth the upgrade price!
You should take a look at what the former "Rock Hill Telephone Company" - now known as Comporium - is doing 1 county to the south. 9x1 is $100/mo w/o some sort of promo (same price for residential as for business) but at least it's offered. They're also stringing fiber to business customers who want 10+ mbps. The rates are reasonable for business class service. (Notice I didn't say "cheap". They're true enterprise class connections, not SOHO products.)
}Davoice
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anon @ 5th Jul 03:38PM:
Re: Now that's worth the upgrade price!
I knew Durham was served by Verizon, but FiOS deployment? Are they really? I must be living under a rock... I haven't heard anything about Fi0S in this area.
That would sure liven things up around here if TWC decided to roll an upgrade to the whole Raleigh division, and not just a lucky bunch in Durham. I'm in Cary, so the only competition (if you can call it that) is former Bellsouth. :(
I'd kill for 1-2 mbps upload. It would make uploading photos and video to my web server much easier, and make my video conferencing smoother. There are things I won't even upload or do since 384k just doesn't cut it anymore, especially since there are 3-4 people at once trying to share that piddly upstream on my home network.
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pimpinparker @ 6th Jul 01:12AM:
Re: Ohio
What a bunch of crap I only get 5 down 384 up, its good but not compared to 15/2
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punker @ 6th Jul 09:03AM:
Re: Time Warner, fix your network first!
said by Doctor Four :
implementing their
so-called QoS (traffic shaping)
(traffic shaping)
help me a lot
with torrent
i get BETTER DOWNLOAD 400Kbyte/s WHEN upload at 110-130KBYTE/S
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aldamon @ 18th Jul 10:09AM:
Re: Now that's worth the upgrade price!
said by nc rr user :
I knew Durham was served by Verizon, but FiOS deployment? Are they really? I must be living under a rock... I haven't heard anything about Fi0S in this area.
That would sure liven things up around here if TWC decided to roll an upgrade to the whole Raleigh division, and not just a lucky bunch in Durham. I'm in Cary, so the only competition (if you can call it that) is former Bellsouth. :(
How about this? Something is up if they want to run fiber across I-85. I live in downtown Durham, so I'm pretty psyched right now.
»www.wral.com/traffic/story/1603362/
Durham Officials Put Brakes on I-85 Shutdown
Highway construction generic
Posted: Jul. 17 6:28 p.m.
Durham — City officials scrambled Tuesday morning to stop what they said was a two-hour closure of Interstate 85 later in the day.
City Manager Patrick Baker said he was shocked to hear the state Department of Transportation and telecommunications company Verizon wanted to block all northbound and southbound lanes between Duke Street and the Durham Freeway from 2 to 4 p.m. Tuesday to lay some fiber-optic lines across the highway.
"I immediately saw some serious concerns, namely, a lack of notice," Baker said.
A Verizon spokesman said the company left a message with the Durham Police Department's communications division at about 8:30 a.m. Tuesday to notify police about the project.
The spokesman and a DOT spokesman both said Durham police misunderstood the message and blew the shutdown out of proportion. They said there were no plans for a two-hour shutdown, only a slow-rolling project that would have taken place in two 10-minute intervals between 2 and 4 p.m.
Baker insisted city officials didn't get anything wrong.
"The bottom line is there should've been plenty of notice. This isn't something you just make a call on (in the) morning under any circumstances," he said.
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