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Review by TransitMan See Profile

  • Location: Dayton, Montgomery, OH, USA
  • Cost: $150 per month
  • Install: about 7 days
Ultimate Speed. Good Price. NO CAPS!
None.
AT&T Still Can't Touch This.
Pre Sales information:
Install Co-ordination:
Connection Reliability:
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2/8/2013
Still going with TWC/RR on a double play option.
Upgraded to the 50/5 speeds late last year, and everyone here is happy with the connection.
Not looking to change anytime soon, as unfortunately no one can close to the speeds offered by TWC/RR.

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5/16/2011
Still with TWC/RR. Recently upgraded to the Extreme speed of 30/5.
Cable tech showed up, got the modems swapped, got into the web gui and disabled the router portion of the cable modem.
Did a speed test and it was 30Mb down/5Mb up.
Extremely satisfied, as are the kids now.
AT&T cellular customer service (my cell service is through AT&T Wireless) keeps trying to talk me into U-Verse, and I have politely told them that since they instituted the caps, there would be no way I am switching to them. Besides, they could not match the speeds being offered by TWC/RR.

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8/25/09
Still with TWC/RR. Still going strong.
With the exception of the hurricane force winds in OHIO last September, have not had any down time to speak of.
With Powerboost, I get anywhere from my rated 15mb down to as high as 28mb down.
Would like to see a bump in the upload department, but right now, it works.

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7/28/08
TWC/RR is still going strong.
No dropped line issues, no problems with speed or service.
Email is also a non-issue.
For this household, it is the best cost effective solution there is.

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12/24/2007
TWCRR is now the only high speed service in the house.
I have since dropped AT&T DSL service altogether.
Speeds are stable and rock solid.

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7/29/2007
Was with ELK via TWC until the roll-out of the new higher speeds. (15,000k down / 768k up)
After the speed bump, I started checking the pricing between the 2 for the top speed tier and RR by far was the least expensive. Easy choice there, dropped ELK and came back to RR.
An unfortunate lightning strike took out my cable modem, but after calling in (once I got the ATT line fixed - it suffered the same fate) was able to swap the modem out at the local office, no problems.
A week later got TWC Digital Phone after ELK dropped the ball on getting me a new ATA.
Very satisfied with my return to RR.
Would recommend them to those who can get it.

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1/25/2007
Ordered RR back about 2 months ago after having been gone for awhile.
Got the self-install unit. Easy and painless.
The only reason I got this is I have 2 teenagers who suck down bandwidth like some people drink water. Plus it gives the household a back-up in case DSL goes out (rarely).
Have only noticed minor slowdowns, no major outages.
In all, I am satisfied for the moment.
Also have my ELK True Voice connected to cable connection.

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Ordered my RoadRunner service via on line offering.
Received confirmation email as to date and time for install. That date and time came and went without installation. After several phone calls, I got a promise from the head RR person in my area for a new install the following weekend. Installer showed up early and within 3 hours I was up and running on cable.
After some tweaks to my system from IDSL, my speeds are running around 2.0m down and 384 up, the theoretical limit from RR.
Got a 3Com tail-fin modem, ugly looking thing, dynamic IP.
Run all this behind my Linksys router with no problems.

Bottom line recomendation, to those that have a good cable system and can get Road Runner, go for it. It is worth my time and money.

Will be switching to ELN via TWC by the end of the week.

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W8ASA
Biet Noi Tieng Viet Khong?
join:2000-07-31
Dayton, OH
·Time Warner Cable

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EL?

I have RR, too, and am very pleased with it here in Centerville. You mentioned that you were going to switch to EL. Will that knock out your $19.95 per month/1st three months from TWC? If you do switch, please post your experience. I think my wife just bought me a BEFSR41 for my birthday (26th), so I may check back here and get your advice. My e-mail is keng@techlock.com.

BTW, does EL also allow dial-up for your cable modem account? I travel frequently, and RR has it now, but limits it to 10 hours per month.

Good Luck.

TransitMan
MVM
join:2000-09-05
Dayton, OH

TransitMan

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Re: EL?

ELN has unlimited dial-up with the cable access plan.
Since I was never offered the $19.95 per month deal, I think it is a mute point.
When you get your Linksys, email me through DSLR. I will get back to you from there.

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Re: EL?

Hmmmm, makes me consider EL even more. I will e-mail you, probably on the 26th but maybe on the 25th, depending on when I actually get the box. If, in the next few days, you change your mnd about EL, definitely call TWC back and demand the $19.95 deal, along with the free installation. Good luck. I'm especially interested in whether or not your speeds change after going over to EL.
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said by TransitMan:
ELN has unlimited dial-up with the cable access plan.
Since I was never offered the $19.95 per month deal, I think it is a mute point.
When you get your Linksys, email me through DSLR. I will get back to you from there.

I did get the linksys for XMAS, and it only took about 15 minutes to set it up, including a careful read
of the instructions. I was surprised, and have not had any problems at all. It is the V2, and came with
1.39 firmware, which I don't think I'll reflash because "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" prevails with me.

TransitMan
MVM
join:2000-09-05
Dayton, OH

TransitMan

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Re: EL?

Glad to here that you got a Linksys for Christmas.
When I got mine (V2), it was firmware 1.36. Upgraded to 1.39 and probably won't go any further unless they make a significant change in the firmware.

Happy surfing my friend.:):):)
Alec232
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uhhh i have ATT and it sucks before mediaone was bought out by ATT i got pings of 50 most of the time and 20 at lowest and 70 at highest now i am very lucky just to get a ping of 99 for one second. Right now i am getting pings of 800 they said they never had any problems in the past but i know they are just a bunch of liars. The only problem i had with roadrunner before ATT bought it was it's bad tech support but now it is worse. The tech support useless this is what they say we are currently have problems in your area and thats it they won't explain whats causing the problem or anything else. At least at my dads office theres T1 for my X-box

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Re: EL?

said by Alec232:
uhhh i have ATT and it sucks before mediaone was bought out by ATT i got pings of 50 most of the time and 20 at lowest and 70 at highest now i am very lucky just to get a ping of 99 for one second. Right now i am getting pings of 800 they said they never had any problems in the past but i know they are just a bunch of liars. The only problem i had with roadrunner before ATT bought it was it's bad tech support but now it is worse. The tech support useless this is what they say we are currently have problems in your area and thats it they won't explain whats causing the problem or anything else. At least at my dads office theres T1 for my X-box
If I ping my RR pop server, I get 10-14 ms almost all of the time. The highest was 20 ms. Sometimes it comes
up 10 ms, which is FINE with me.
simplyone
join:2001-01-02
Staten Island, NY

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Earthlink??? why????

Earthlink has a limit on bandwidth of 500 MB's a month. A gamer goes thought that in a night! a person who uses napster or morpheus easily runs though that bandwidth.. wonder how much it will cost if you go over that limit?? think about it. Road Runner is an excellent service and unbeatable level 3 support.
Rick5
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Re: Earthlink??? why????

Earthlink has no limit on Bandwidth.

Also, Earthlink shares the same exact routing as Time Warner RR so there shouldn't be any difference in speeds...
pings ect.

~RRR

BrooklynZoo
For Everthing Else, There's Mastercard
join:2001-04-01
Atlanta, GA

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Can you paste a link to that information? If that becomes the case, so long Cable. Back to either DSL or dialup.