qtime
@theplanet.com
| What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 Many months later, still the same issues in SoCal. Download speeds still erratic, often 1/2 to 1/3 of what it should be in the evenings and weekends.
To add insult to injury, TWC raised their prices in SoCal... and in this economy where everyone is hurting. Unbelievable. A $2.00 increase per month for internet and a 21% increase from $14 to $17 for Broadcast basic. And did you notice the Fees went up over 50%? What is going on? | |
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DslrMark
join:2000-06-29
Lawndale, CA | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 Your paying to get screwed...Just in life. | |
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maartena
Stacked.
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA | Welcome to the wonderful world of Capitalism at its finest. 
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join:2008-01-09
San Pedro, CA
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| Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 "Welcome to the wonderful world of Capitalism at its finest"
lol,lol just wait until obama and the gov run your internet, it will be twice the price your paying now, and If I say something derogatory about them I will be locked up as a terrorist, welcome to the brave new world | |
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skellener
join:2004-02-27
Sherman Oaks, CA
1 edit | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 Still 10/1 in Sherman Oaks. | |
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Premium
join:2003-01-20
Santa Ana, CA
| said by sprockin  :"Welcome to the wonderful world of Capitalism at its finest" lol,lol just wait until obama and the gov run your internet, it will be twice the price your paying now, and If I say something derogatory about them I will be locked up as a terrorist, welcome to the brave new world Tin Foil Hat anyone?
My service has been pretty much crap for the past 8 moths. Speed is ok but latency is becoming a huge issue now. | |
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unoriginal
join:2000-07-12
San Diego, CA | We also got notice in our bill that Turbo is going up $3 to $12.95 here in San Diego. | |
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dotditdot
@rr.com
| My basic broadcast price hasn't increased to $17 (yet?). However, the various "fees" were increased by almost $1 last month on my bill.  And yes, the speeds are terrible / inconsistent, the quality of the basic broadcast TV is terrible as well. | |
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Modred
join:2003-06-18
Huntington Beach, CA
| Like you, I was surprised to see broadcast basic go up to $17.00. It wasn't that long ago that they increased it from $12.00 to $14.00. I suspect they are using the switch to digital as an excuse.
I checked Verizon, and they offer broadcast basic for $12.95 per month. But, I would have been required to get set-top boxes for my old analog tv's, and they would have cost $12.00 per month.
Also, last week I was able to get Roadrunner Standard renewed for a year at $30.00 per month, and service has improved. So, overall, I'm moderately happy with Time Warner. I hope you get things resolved. | |
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@rr.com
| My internet service has been down for most of the past 4 hours. I'm in the Beverly Hills 90212 area code. The last time this happened the engineer said it was a bad amplifier outside. I can't believe anyone would buy phone service from these guys as their service is so unreliable. Six months ago I had a nightly outage for 4 days. | |
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| Jobeo
join:2009-01-27
| Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 yes i'm close by to you in 90232 ... for about the past 5 hours or so i've had seriously degraded speed... its running about 10x slower than it should...
i'm not even bothering to call the customer service line... its a waste of time and i'm sure as people come home from work and find it running so slow they will call... | |
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Rofo
@rr.com
| Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 I'm pinging various sites and timing out every 30 seconds or so. Problems started around 1:30pm. Called customer service and they admitted to having technical difficulties. Got credited $13 to my account. They told me it'll be over in about an hour or so. | |
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grumpy in LA
@rr.com | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 TWC sucks. Getting 350k down instead of 10MB. | |
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ScottG
join:2009-01-28
Los Angeles, CA
| Had similar issues yesterday but then I did a direct connect to my modem and took out my router.
Seems that my speeds were working then...
Very odd.
Don't know if you guys are running into the same problems.
Posted about it here:
»Wireless problem? | |
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grandmaster b
@rr.com
| Experiencing 700kbps speeds when I should be getting 10MB for the past two days. Have frustratingly called Time Warner numerous times. First I was told that a cable was being repaired in the area and I should feel fortunate that I even had service. Today I called and was told there was no record of any repairs being made last night and the techs alternated between saying they have no idea to faulting my computer to even claiming that they knew service was slow, and no they have no idea when it would be repaired.
I'm in the 90036 zip code. | |
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grandmaster b
@rr.com | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 UPDATE: After 15 minutes on hold at 9:30pm, I was told that a node is down, they are trying to get things back to normal (so I guess substandard), and they HAVE NO IDEA when it will be fixed. | |
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join:2009-01-27 | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 i can confirm as of 10:06 PM in the 90232 just ran a speakesy speedtest and i'm back at 10mbit
hopefully all the trouble is behind us. | |
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grandmaster b
@rr.com | 7.6mb here, would prefer faster, but that won't happen. | |
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x22
join:2009-01-28
| Same thing happening here in Arcadia, 91007.
800k download for a 6M cable is very usual at peak time nightly. Speed becomes normal after mid-night. Called TWC every other day, nothing helpful.
Where is Fios or U-verse ? I even can not install Elite DSL. Damn it. | |
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ScottG
join:2009-01-28
Los Angeles, CA | Oddly enough I'm getting better speeds now too. | |
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Mdoc
Ehh... munch munch... what's up, Doc?
join:2007-03-27
Sterling, VA | Are ALL of you guys who've posted in this thread using RoadRunner service? | |
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x22
join:2009-01-28 | Shoot. Only 500K in this morning. Must be some thing happening. Usually daytime speed is very nice.
Again, ZIP 91007 area. Any one has similar problems? | |
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| lukeswill
join:2009-01-13
El Monte, CA
| Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 Same here in El Monte 91732... lastnight was horrible. But I don't have any other options to switch. Even ATT only offers basic 786k, I think they're pack with subscribers too (would like to get their 6.0 Mbps service). Anybody know of another company in the area? Thanks | |
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ScottG
join:2009-01-28
Los Angeles, CA | Things are looking good for me in the 90066. | |
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sigmanova
join:2003-07-21
Arcadia, CA
| is anyone still having DNS-related problems? about 40% of the time websites time-out and it takes several minutes before the site loads. it's getting to be annoying.
speeds through torrents and websites are blazing fast though.
i'm in Arcadia 91006. | |
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maartena
Stacked.
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join:2002-05-10
Orange, CA | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 Sigmanova: Try OpenDNS, I never have any issues  | |
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join:2003-07-21
Arcadia, CA | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 i'm already using OpenDNS but am still having problems with getting websites loaded the first try.  | |
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dotditdot
@rr.com | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 I was previously having the same problem with sites taking a long time to load. It seems like it finally cleared up Thursday evening. This was going on all week, I'm not using the RR DNS servers. I'm in 90066. | |
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Druish
@rr.com
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Like seriously. I've had around 6 tech guys come by already and none of them knows what the hell is going on.
Should I just send a complaint about false advertising?
I live in Panorama City, CA 91402 | |
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SLowEd
@com.br | What will it take for TWC to admit their network in SoCal cannot handle the traffic in the evenings? I mean this is getting ridiculous. Any one know how the LA City lawsuit is going?? | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA
·RoadRunner Cable
 ·DSL EXTREME
| Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 Email (pop-server & smtp-server) appears to be down.
$ telnet pop-server.ca.rr.com 110
Trying 75.180.132.60...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
$ telnet smtp-server.ca.rr.com 25
Trying 75.180.132.33...
telnet: Unable to connect to remote host: Connection refused
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wstcvnaca
join:2004-10-05
La Puente, CA
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Lately, I am getting this message from the cable modem troubleshooting page |
Ok, now I know I should not complain about the upload, but seriously I cannot achieve anything higher than 1746. My modem config upload is capped at 2048. When I had 10/1, the highest upload was 978, but that is much closer to the cap than 1746 is. I have also tweaked (DR TCP) my connection the day after the speed upgraded to 15/2. Is this high downstream level causing the upload to be off by 254 kb/s??? | |
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en102
Canadian, eh?
join:2001-01-26
Valencia, CA | Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 As far as connection to pop-server/smtp-server - it was actually Vista having a fit. My XP laptop and work gigE connection had no issues.
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hobgoblin
Sortof Agoblin
Premium
join:2001-11-25
Orchard Park, NY
clubs:
| Re: What the heck is going on in SoCal? - Part 2 said by en102 :As far as connection to pop-server/smtp-server - it was actually Vista having a fit. My XP laptop and work gigE connection had no issues. But you immediately assumed......
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