Review by Mchart  UPDATED: 204 days ago member for 4.5 years, 1126 visits, last login: a few minutes ago
San Antonio,Bexar,TX
$29 per month (6 month contract)
"Downstream Bandwidth / Price"
"Upstream Bandwidth, Getting less downstream then advertised"
"It's pretty good for the price, but the upstream bandwidth is a joke"
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After some escapades trying to get this service installed, everything is working as it should. A reasonable 5mbps downstream, but a joke of an upstream 512kbps. Service was advertised as 7mbps/512kbps. I'm getting almost exactly 5mbps downstream. This ratio is a joke. No serious filesharing can be done. (Albeit TimeWarner doesn't want people filesharing, but I could care less.)
Bottom line is that for the area this is all I could really get, and the price is pretty good. Compare to my other review however, and i'm unimpressed.
I have yet to actually see if this connection will be reliable or not; but from my personal experiance with any cable service (At least in the Chicagoland and mid-west area) it never was. Maybe TimeWarner is different.
Note that after doing a few different speedtests, i'm not receiving nearly as much downstream speed as I should be. It is hopping in and out anywhere between 2.5 to 5mbps. Fairly dissapointed.
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