Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | reply to WOWer
Re: WOW and capital expenditures for the future?
I have a 40/20 at work and most things seem to max that out as well. Not everything, but most. Plus, FTPs from work to home will be much faster. That's huge for me. |
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WOWer
@wideopenwest.com
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said by jmr :
But most things that you will be downloading won't even be able to take advantage of that faster download speed (at least not at this point in time).
That simply isn't true. At work I have a 20mbps Comcast Business connection, and most things I download max out the connection. |
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The Joker
join:2003-08-01
00001 | reply to jmr
Youtube is still slow on HD with even 15 mb speed  |
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jmr
@wideopenwest.com | reply to Goober
But most things that you will be downloading won't even be able to take advantage of that faster download speed (at least not at this point in time). |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | reply to pparks1
I'm switching to the 50/10 just because I want things faster. I don't use very much bandwidth, but when I want something, I want it as fast as possible. |
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pparks1
join:2002-01-01
Westland, MI
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I've been with WOW for a number of years now. My reasoning has not changed over the years. I'm much happier with my customer service with WOW than I have ever been with Comcast. For me it's not about the price. It's not about the # of HD channels and it's not about my download speeds to the Internet. It's about good service when I call with a problem. Comcast undoubtedly offerered me more services, but dealing with them during a problem was a HORRIFIC NIGHTMARE.
It seems that lots of ISP's are going with huge download speeds, but introducing bandwidth caps. Right now, I don't see many servers and hosts on the Internet providing services which really take advantage of all that speed....and downloads are so quick anyway on my 15mbit connnection...that I just don't feel this needs to be any faster. I mean videos stream fine, Netflix streams fine, downloads are coming down at over 1MB a second, the Xbox360 is running just fine......what do you people do with all of this bandwidth????? I'm serious...I'm an IT guy myself, I download large Linux distros and the like....so I do USE my internet....but I just don't see the reasoning for the mad dash for 50 and 100 megabit speeds right now. |
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jmr
@wideopenwest.com | reply to imrf
Anybody have specific info on WOW! and SDV? When will they start to implement it? |
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI | reply to usa2k
Yup |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | reply to usa2k
yes. |
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usa2k
Please PRAY for Rebekah
Premium,MVM
join:2003-01-26
Canton, MI
clubs:
 ·VOIPo
 ·WOW Internet and C..
·Broadvox Direct
| reply to imrf
said by imrf  :said by jmr :
They need to get going on SDV
In the process. This SDV? |
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imrf
Premium
join:2002-06-06
Utica, MI | reply to jmr
said by jmr :
They need to get going on SDV
In the process. |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL | reply to usa2k
Re: WOW and capital expenditures for the future?
I agree that big changes are on the way. That's why I could only stomach a 1-year contract. |
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usa2k
Please PRAY for Rebekah
Premium,MVM
join:2003-01-26
Canton, MI
clubs:
·VOIPo
·WOW Internet and C..
·Broadvox Direct
|  reply to Goober
IP on-demand programming will change the face of the competition soon.
HD from cable may be nice, but not as pivotal as HD over IP, and HD On-Demand.
The HSI speed competition, will lead to IP-HD on-demand being viable.
IMHO WOW! may not be big enough/cutting edge enough to compete in 10 years ...
(Unless its going on in secrete development!)
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Jim, VoIP 12/2002, VOIPo 2/2007
FAH-Tool ... Pets ... USA2K site ... Artist-247 |
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Goober
Premium
join:2000-12-17
Naperville, IL
·Comcast
·WOW Internet and C..
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Re: WOW and capital expenditures for the future?
For that reason I'm leaving WOW again in a week.
Not much of a price difference, and with Comcast I'll get some extra HD and the opportunity to try out their 50/10 internet speed (albeit for a fairly hefty price premium).
I can handle a one year contract. I don't see WOW providing competition on the HSI side of things for a while, which is what kept me as a customer the last time around when WOW was able to provide the 16/2 speed. |
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dubbs
@bankone.com
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I would think if WOW wants to compete, it will have to dramatically increase its HD lineup in the very near future. How many did they add within the last year? Maybe 10 channels? Its big thing was always being lower priced then everyone else, and now there isn't that much of a difference in price amongst the cable companies here in Columbus (Insight, Time Warner, Uverse). |
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jmr
@wideopenwest.com | reply to Joe12345678
They need to get going on SDV |
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL | reply to karpodiem
For HD they still have a big analog line up that will get in the way.
They should do a big crush but keep most of channels in clear qam unlike comcast how forces you to get a cable or there box to get many channels and most of there HD. |
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karpodiem
join:2008-05-20
·WOW Internet and C..
|  I'm pretty happy with my WOW service. Looking back these past few years, I have no complaints.
One concern I have however is WOW's ability to perform capital expenditures in the long run - I'm not asking for DOCSIS 3.0 this year or even next year, but do you think WOW has enough saved up for them to eventually go this route?
Oh, and the Big Ten Network, in HD (in Michigan), would be nice. |
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