baineschile
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | This is news?
This is news that we are waiting a product? It will be bigger news when it is actually LAUNCHED.
Also, rumor mill on the internet is that their top offer will be a 100/20 in NYC? Anyone else heard this? |
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rit56
join:2000-12-01
New York, NY
| A new meter
So they have a new speed test meter......looks fancy. They still charge to much for triple play. The cost of cable tv is absurd. I await FIOS as does all my neighbors in lower Manhattan. We talk about this TWC. You should experience quite a defection due to your outages (every Monday for the past month) of internet service and your yearly unjustifiable price increases. 16 units in my 20 unit building are switching to FIOS.. |
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Matt
Take me down to the paradise city
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join:2003-07-20
Jamestown, NC
 ·North State Commun..
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Re: This is news?
said by baineschile  :This is news that we are waiting a product? It will be bigger news when it is actually LAUNCHED. It's called "Holding their feet to the fire." The more attention that is drawn toward the fact that they haven't upgraded and are only planning on upgrading a single market, the better. |
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deadzoned
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join:2005-04-13
Baton Rouge, LA | Why bother?
I don't even know why they are even bothering with DOCSIS 3.0 because it's useless when you factor in TW's horrible cap and metering practices.
Seriously, it just makes their current offerings a bad deal and future newer offerings useless. |
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axiomatic
join:2006-08-23
Tomball, TX
| Missing the point
TW is missing the point of DOCSIS 3.0 anyway. The reason for doing it is to increase bandwidth so you dont have to implement caps and metering because there is no longer congestion on the network.
TW is so full of fail lately. I can;t believe I'm saying this but I am GLAD TW left the Houston area. Dealing with Comcast is far preferable to dealing with TW. |
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baineschile
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join:2008-05-10
Sterling Heights, MI | reply to rit56
Re: A new meter
Fios pricing is comperable to cable, so thats not really a just argruement.
The good arguement is what you get with Fios.....faster internet, more HD stations, etc |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
 ·Comcast
·Qwest.net
 ·magicjack.com
 ·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
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Re: This is news?
100/20? Sounds competitive...that'd place TWC squarely as the fastest-upload cable ISP in the US and put it on par with FiOS for the moment in terms of advetised upload speeds (though I hear FiOS peeps are now getting 25-35 Mbps up on the new rate plans).
Combine that with the fact that you can't cap and tier by GB per month in a competitive (read: FiOS) market and I'm hapy for NYC customers, once TWC gets off their lazy butt and does something. |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | reply to deadzoned
Re: Why bother?
Easy: they can't/won't cap and tier n FiOS markets. They'd lost all their customers to Verizon if they did. Unless of course they offered 100/20 for $50 per month with a 100GB cap, trading speed for transfer capacity and price. |
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jester121
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join:2003-08-09
Lake Zurich, IL
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·ViaTalk
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Re: This is news?
said by iansltx :Combine that with the fact that you can't cap and tier by GB per month in a competitive (read: FiOS) market What if Verizon decides to institute caps? |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
·Comcast
·Qwest.net
·magicjack.com
·BeeCreek Communica..
·Sprint Mobile Broa..
| Then we're screwed.
Kidding, kidding. Then someone else will try to roll out a high-end fiber network in muni NYC, since bandwidth is pretty cheap anyway.
Also, remember that Verizon is competing against Cablevision, who has already said they aren't going to cap. o if Verizon capped they'd lose customers in half their NYC market. That or they'd have to have dcaps in one half and no caps in the other. A messy siatuation to be sure.
Also FYI ALL TWC speed tests have had 100 Mbps for awhile now. The Austin one certainly does, and it's nowhere near DOCSIS 3 territory (nearest FiOS is in Dallas). |
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curls310
join:2007-09-26
Hillsdale, NJ | funk TWC
They're the worst cable company of them all... I've had them all in my area - Cablevision, TWC, Directv and Verizon. They sucked in service and product.
Thank goodness I live in an area not serviced by them. I'm a happy FIOS customer. |
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speed100
@rcn.com | rcn
even little guys like RCN will be launching docsis 3.0 before TW does. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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Re: This is news?
said by jester121 :said by iansltx :Combine that with the fact that you can't cap and tier by GB per month in a competitive (read: FiOS) market What if Verizon decides to institute caps? There is RCN in 1/6th of NYC. |
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sonicmerlin
join:2009-05-24
Cleveland, OH | TWC
I've had them for the last 7 or 8 years and my speed hasn't changed even once. Apparently years of technological advances that have made bandwidth exponentially cheaper year after year doesn't apply to TWC. |
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Cogdis
join:2007-03-26
Floral Park, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
·RoadRunner Cable
·Teleblend
·ViaTalk
| reply to baineschile
Re: A new meter
said by baineschile :Fios pricing is comperable to cable, so thats not really a just argruement. That depends on your location. |
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gorehound
join:2009-06-19
Portland, ME | reply to baineschile
Re: This is news?
and we are screwed in portland maine.i wonder when and if we will ever see this happen here............
and if it did it will probably be metered billing and that is a waste of time. |
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JonRup
join:2008-07-20
Hilliard, OH | Screw you, Time Warner.
And in the mean time our "turbo" connections here in Ohio only have a upload of 768kbps, great news. |
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djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
·PHONE POWER
·AT&T U-Verse
·AT&T CallVantage
·Time Warner VOIP
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to axiomatic
Re: Missing the point
TW is so full of fail lately. I can;t believe I'm saying this but I am GLAD TW left the Houston area. Dealing with Comcast is far preferable to dealing with TW. Well put. You should be glad - we lost Comcast and it has not been a good thing. It didn't seem so bad at first, prices got a little lower and the "former Comcast" network was reliable. But now we've seen Time Warner's true colors. Poor TV service progress and quality. Cherry picking speed upgrades by zipcode. And of course, their attempts to pioneer the dreaded consumption based billing.
The amount of work they put into making sure non-FIOS, non-UVerse areas get less value for their money in this area is truly pathetic. I chalked it up as a slow upgrade process for a while, but after two years of the same, their intentions are preetty clear.
My other option is AT&T, and while AT&T has their fair share of shortcomings, at least they try to offer their U-verse product more consistently across their territories.
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RARPSL
join:1999-12-08
Suffern, NY
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Re: This is news?
said by iansltx :Also, remember that Verizon is competing against Cablevision, who has already said they aren't going to cap. Also, unlike Comcast who "plans to have 65% of their markets covered by DOCSIS 3.0 by the end of this year -- and 100% of their markets DOCSIS 3.0 enabled by the end of 2010", CV is 100% DOCSIS 3.0 Enabled RIGHT NOW (Ultra 101/15 anytime/anywhere [in their coverage area] you want to order it). |
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iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO | Valid point, but CC serves a much greater (and more dispersed) geographical area than CV. |
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