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Re: Stingy with the uploads much?
1Mbps is pretty generous for TWC... 512k is the highest upload speed offered by any company where I live.
TWC must have one of the most VARIED networks among all cable companies when it comes to speed.
Most cable operators now offer a near or above 1mbps upload option. TWC can't even figure that one out. More than just pathetic if you ask me.
I would love to see what kind of effect powerboost will have on customers that TWC is slapping a pathetic 20-40 GB cap on. |
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reelbigfish
join:2002-06-06
Boston, MA
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| It used to be the opposite. When I was in school, Time Warner in Upstate New York was at 3Mbps/384Kbps and Comcast was 1500/256Kbps, then 3Mbps/256Kbps. Comcast truly was the cable company left behind in upstream speeds until they upgraded to standard tiers of 6Mbps/1Mbps and 8Mbps/2Mbps.
TWC needs to make some moves and really needs to standardize more. I realize that the speeds are based on the local competition, but 512Kbps is quite paltry in comparison to most upload speeds these days. |
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Dogfather
Premium
join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
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For SoCal the RR Extreme tier has been 15/2 for $55 for a long time. I had it before switching to FiOS. And it was cheaper than Verizon's month-month price. Seems like this is a step backward. |
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ReVeLaTeD
Premium
join:2001-11-10
San Diego, CA
| said by Dogfather  :For SoCal the RR Extreme tier has been 15/2 for $55 for a long time. I had it before switching to FiOS. And it was cheaper than Verizon's month-month price. Seems like this is a step backward. That's what I'm on now. I might get the occasional speed degradation on Sunday, but other than that it's zip fast. Watching DownThemAll ramp to 2MB/sec on downloads without using the accelerator feature is a beautiful thing.
To the complaints about low upstream, it's obviously to discourage servers. You don't need that much upstream to download files, browse the web or read email - which is what the majority of customers are doing. A better question would be, why the severe lack of strong synchronous connections on the business side? I would expect to see 20/20 over there, but don't. Why not? |
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