Piggie
I Actually use Windstream
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join:2005-11-23
Orange Springs, FL
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This was an overplayed announcement and probably a little premature, if you read the WS Forum. The news article here over plays it's readiness in the same way WS apparently reported it in Sunday's Lexington's Times also per the WS forum. I guess one can tell this from so many less than positive replies here. Premature announcements from anyone doesn't do any good when they state "available now".
It is being rolled out in Lexington, KY because that is there one big city and the a good bit of the rest of their national territory is rural.
There are also people that say that is available in other areas but none of them have actually seen their modems train to the new speed per posts in the WS forum.
Meanwhile probably the lot of us on WS will be on what ever speed we have for the duration, interim or however you wish to phrase it.
And last but far from least, WS has way to slow of upload speeds, in particular when you get in their higher tiers.
3m/384 is tolerable but once you get to 6M/384 then to achieve full download, one can not be uploading at all. For example with an upload throttle to 140kbps on a 384 up system, download will peak at best at 2M, maybe, more like 1.7 to 1.8. So anyone doing any uploading might as well stay on 3/384. And NO I don't do bit torrent, before some one jumps to that conclusion.
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| Speedstream 4200 Modem - 3m/384 plan | W98-W2KSP4-XPSP2 - All AMD | Buffalo WHR G54S with Tomato 1.13 | 3 downstream switches feeding 6 total clients (no wireless) | Including the Data port on the side of my neck | |
GVG
join:2006-09-19
Charlotte, NC
1 edit | OK, I took the plunge. I called WS and they say my area can get 12/786. I have a 30 day trial period, and no contract so I can cancel anytime. They say my line should be on by 5/2 so I will report back then how it compares to my 8/512 from Time Warner. I will be not only looking at speed but latency and jitter as I run 3 VOIP lines over my connection and latency to the VOIP server and Jitter can wreak havoc on the connection.
Can anyone tell me who the primary backbone for Windstream is? TW used to use Level3, but now they use their own network. |
