mgbaker
join:2000-05-14
Charlotte, NC
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·Covad Communications
| News14 confirmation
»news14.com/content/top_stories/5···ult.aspx
MORRISVILLE, N.C. -- Time Warner Cable will dramatically increase the speeds of its award winning High Speed Internet Service, Road Runner. Road Runner Standard will see a 40 percent speed boost from 5 Mega bits per second (Mbps) to a blazing 7 Mbps. Road Runner Turbo will jump from 8 Mbps to 10 Mbps.
In addition to the increased download speeds, Road Runner High Speed Online residential service will continue to offer customers ten e-mail accounts, personal home page space, parental controls, a free suite of Internet security software and more. There will be no price changes associated with these speed increases. |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
| said by mgbaker  :» news14.com/content/top_stories/5···ult.aspxMORRISVILLE, N.C. -- Time Warner Cable will dramatically increase the speeds of its award winning High Speed Internet Service, Road Runner. Road Runner Standard will see a 40 percent speed boost from 5 Mega bits per second (Mbps) to a blazing 7 Mbps. Road Runner Turbo will jump from 8 Mbps to 10 Mbps. In addition to the increased download speeds, Road Runner High Speed Online residential service will continue to offer customers ten e-mail accounts, personal home page space, parental controls, a free suite of Internet security software and more. There will be no price changes associated with these speed increases. Sounds like News14 just cut, copied & pasted a Time Warner press release... I hardly agree that a 2 meg speed bump (down only) is a "dramatic" speed increase -but still welcome nonetheless. |
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mgbaker
join:2000-05-14
Charlotte, NC | News14 is owned by Time Warner, that's probably why. |
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Cod
join:2000-07-05
Greensboro, NC
| said by mgbaker :News14 is owned by Time Warner, that's probably why. aahh, makes sense. |
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tiger72
SexaT duorP
Premium
join:2001-03-28
Kansas City, MO
clubs: | reply to mgbaker
that's how all news is nowadays. News networks merely copy and paste press-releases and call it "news". |
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mgbaker
join:2000-05-14
Charlotte, NC
edit:
May 6th, @08:44PM
| That's true. Most networks, websites and newspapers hardly do their own reporting now, they simply use an Associated Press (AP) article. Go to just about any site, the "news" is some regurgitated AP article, usually. |
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RR User
@rr.com | reply to Cod
Yeah, I don't call it dramatic either, but for many of NC's users that TW is feeding out of it's own grubby hands, most will probably think it's a dramatic upgrade. |
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patcat88
join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY | reply to mgbaker
Some networks/stations are so cheap they don't even want to pay the AP, so they air free news from corporate interests. »en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Video_news_release |
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tasmithe
join:2002-09-16
Graham, NC
 ·tw telecom
·RoadRunner Cable
·RoadRunner Cable
| reply to Cod
I was told by the Greensboro office that the "triad" rr was going from 5 to 10 for standard residential and turbo was going from 8 to 15. Wonder why Greensboro is getting more than other areas in NC? I'm glad I'm fed out of that plant. I haven't checked the speeds yet, however. |
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teeezur
join:2000-11-25
Yadkinville, NC
| I'm on a triad rr connection. I rebooted my cable box and used speakeasy's speed test and got the following...
Download Speed: 5973 kbps (746.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 371 kbps (46.4 KB/sec transfer rate)
So it appears, at least in my area, that they only boosted the download speed...1 meg...not the doubling that the GSO office told you. |
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tasmithe
join:2002-09-16
Graham, NC | I didn't reset the modem but I'm getting like 5900....I was told that I didn't have to reboot the modem for this. Maybe this was the same person that told me we were going to 10. LOL ?? |
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