Blonco
Premium
join:2003-08-20
San Antonio, TX | Upload Please
Download speeds are nice but for the love of all that is Holy...give us more upload. 1 Mbps would be nice. |
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raye
Premium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA | and 512 kbps upload?
You folks at broadband reports and/or the other journalists reporting on this need to include upload info. TWC is turning theri Internet access into another TV set for the home, all download, no upload. |
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odreian615
join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL | hopefully in 5 years all highspeed broadband
will be at least 15mps for under 49.99 I can only pray |
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kba4
join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
 ·RoadRunner Cable
| nothing new...
it's the same old thing. how much you wanna bet that the UL is still a sh!tty 384Kbps (1/3Mbps! ooh!!)? TW doesn't get it. the US broadband scene doesn't get it. we're not even top-ten worldwide in broadband and this is why. stop increasing DL; it's useless to have 30Mbps. what is it good for? seriously! put some effort into UL improvements and i'll pay $70/mo.
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH | Cost...
$200 a month for residential internet service.... Somehow I don't see too many people jumping at that.... |
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CableTool
Poorly Representing MYSELF.
Premium
join:2004-11-12 | Low Uploads = Bandwidth control
Low uploads are pretty much the only thing keeping people from becoming a server.... |
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kba4
join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
·RoadRunner Cable
| i got news for you, we're all operating servers. the scale is all you're specifying and why shouldn't i be allowed to UL fast if the technology exists and i'm willing to pay? i want more than 1Mbps up though or it's not worth it.
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VikingBob
join:2004-06-05
Ste Anne, MB | reply to Hall
Re: Cost...
You would be surprised at how many folks have more money than brains!  |
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TKJunkMail
Enjoy the sun
Premium
join:2002-03-03
Avalon, NJ
 ·Sprint Mobile Broa..
·Comcast
| reply to Blonco
Re: Upload Please
said by Blonco  :Download speeds are nice but for the love of all that is Holy...give us more upload. 1 Mbps would be nice. Very high prices for download. But no upload increases?? I couldn't find any info on what the upload speeds would be in the news article. Anyone have info on that?
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Ignite
Premium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK
clubs:
·BlueYonder Interne..
 ·Be There
| Crappy Article
Oooo look it's probably a trial of DOCSIS 3, with a nice press release attached.
Quoting from the story:
quote:
Because the residences in an apartment complex are close together, the company can offer faster speeds than those it delivers to housing developments. Broadband speeds tend to drop the further the computer user is from network equipment.
Erm, no darling that'd be DSL that is affected by distance, not cable.
To be honest this is a complete non-event. It'd be far more appropriate to call this a technology trial and e-peen extending press release. Cheap asses charging 200 bucks a month to triallists too! |
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attsbcisgay
join:2003-03-18
Beverly Hills, CA | reply to Blonco
Re: Upload Please
Upload are as follow:
10/384
15/512
30/768
lol.
what a stingy corporation. sucks doesn't it?
That's terrible!!! I"m sticking with SBC pro at 3.0/512
for a mere 21.99 for the next 6 months.
RR can go to hell. |
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attsbcisgay
join:2003-03-18
Beverly Hills, CA | reply to Ignite
Re: Crappy Article
upload not disclosed cause all this great download is just a scam like anything else in life. after they get ya to pay they could careless whether you are pleased or not. |
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techman01
join:2001-05-06
Bohemia, NY
1 edit | I'm very content with 30 down / 2 up for $55 a month from Cablevision
I will be switching to Fios once available for 30 down / 5 up for $59 a month here on Long Island(Competition is great) |
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G_Poobah
join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
| reply to Blonco
Re: Upload Please
Here's the quote that shows you how totally out of touch the executives are..
"Although Xtreme's monthly rates of up to $200 likely put the service out of most consumers' price range, Henry said people with home offices, executives looking to connect to their corporate networks and die-hard online gamers will be interested."
1) A home office needs to be able to run services (mail or web or etc). All those are blocked in the home networks.
2) Executives looking to connect their corporate network require synchronous speeds. 30mb/.76mb is pointless for a home office worker. (and it violates their terms of service)
3) Die Hard Gamers care about ping times. 30mb is pointless, they just need pings.
Just for fun, "Right now most consumers are satisfied with regular broadband," Atlanta-based telecom analyst Jeff Kagan said. "That's fine for what they use the Internet for. But it's not going to be that way forever. At some point, consumers will be doing things like downloading whole movies." Well, DUH, we already DO download movies, music, tvshows, etc, pretty much everything digital.
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Hall
Premium,MVM
join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
·EarthLink
·AT&T Midwest
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| reply to raye
Re: and 512 kbps upload?
said by raye :You folks at broadband reports and/or the other journalists reporting on this need to include upload info. The average customer doesn't know, nor care, about upload rates. Even my local TW's website doesn't list the upload rate (without digging for it). They talk about "Great news! Road Runner just got FASTER! With speeds up to 5.0 Mbps, it's the fastest residential speed in the area!" and "You now have a choice to go even faster with Road Runner Premium. With speeds as fast as 8.0 Mbps down". Put "upload" in their search box and you get NO results. |
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Newegg
Supreme Ideology
join:2004-11-14
Atlanta, GA
| reply to attsbcisgay
Re: Upload Please
said by attsbcisgay :Upload are as follow: 10/384 15/512 30/768 lol. what a stingy corporation. sucks doesn't it? That's terrible!!! I"m sticking with SBC pro at 3.0/512 for a mere 21.99 for the next 6 months. RR can go to hell. That upload is a joke. Should be like this.
10/1
15/2
30/5
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Rshinra
@grandenetworks.n
| Time Warner SA does have competition
This is kind of interesting because San Antonio is kind of unique because there are 2 cable companies with their own lines in this town. The other is grande communications. I think they have about 2/3 of the city wired now and they have good packages can get voice data and basic cable for like $75 a month and the best part the 3.0/384 tier is $20 but after a while you seem to get 8.0/512 service I guess they forget or something
Last Result:
Download Speed: 7056 kbps (882 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 414 kbps (51.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
their website isn't very up to date on pricing but they are covering most of central Texas now i think their high end tier is like 10/1 but I haven't talked to them in a long time because nothing goes down
so hopefully this will spark some nice price wars |
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RadioDoc
58ef2c0
Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11
·AT&T Midwest
| reply to CableTool
Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control
said by CableTool :Low uploads are pretty much the only thing keeping people from becoming a server.... Well then, how about building the network so it doesn't unravel when people do run servers? SBC (for instance) doesn't seem to have any problem with that--it's even in the TOS that servers are permitted. How 'come cable is so scared of them?
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CraigBee
join:2004-07-23
Overland Park, KS
| reply to attsbcisgay
Re: Upload Please
That is a JOKE! I was about to post a sourcastic remark that it would be 10/384, but its for real?!? You got to bit kidding me? This is why I left RR for Cyberonic about 18 months ago. I can get 6/768 dry line with Cyberonic. My god, you must get 30 meg down service for $200 to get 768 up?!? WTF |
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thatnumber
| what is it with $200 for 30mbit
What up with dat!
The top tier for consumers shouldn't be more than $100, and should be part of a system-wide upgrades with lowering prices every year. Anything else is wasteful and not worth the its weight in dog poop. Every year there should be a 5-10 megabit upgrade until we get to the 100/100 holy grail. |
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