1 edit | TWC Dallas, New Speed, Ultimate 75 Guys, just a heads up that I am now running Ultimate 75 for $90 in the DFW area. I called in because it looked like I was being overcharged for the Extreme tier ($79 vs what they are offering on their website of $59). Apparently they are calling this a "promotion". Anyway, while jumping through the hoops to get my bill reduced, I asked the agent what the cost of Ultimate was, and they said "which one". Apparently they offer Ultimate 50, and Ultimate 75 now. Unfortunately, the upstream speed is still the piddly 5 mbps on both of them. |
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2 edits | said by txfeinbergs:Guys, just a heads up that I am now running Ultimate 75 for $90 in the DFW area. I called in because it looked like I was being overcharged for the Extreme tier ($79 vs what they are offering on their website of $59). Apparently they are calling this a "promotion". Anyway, while jumping through the hoops to get my bill reduced, I asked the agent what the cost of Ultimate was, and they said "which one". Apparently they offer Ultimate 50, and Ultimate 75 now. Unfortunately, the upstream speed is still the piddly 5 mbps on both of them.
can you post a screen shot of speedtest?
I am wondering if Ultimate 75 is a stop gap speed until TWC adds two more downstream channels as right now they have 6 running on the downstream which is allowing them to offer the 75Mbps speeds. But I am wondering if there will a ultimate 100Mbps and an ultimate 125Mbps when they get 8 channels on the downstream for bonding. If Kansas City is to be followed I could see extreme being bumped up to 50Mbps. |
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bryan85
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San Antonio, TX | reply to txfeinbergs
awesome sauce! hopefully this makes its way to San Antonio soon. |
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| said by bryan85:awesome sauce! hopefully this makes its way to San Antonio soon.
Dallas has seemed to be at the top of the list for products since 2010 for some reason. Ever since 2010 Dallas has gotten things that the rest of Texas does not have such as several HD channels: E! HD, style HD, halogen HD, Fox Deportes HD, Ovation HD was added in 2011 but dropped on 1/1/13, Sportsman Channel HD. The Dallas area had an upgrade on the internet last july that added two downstreams for DOCSIS bonding so we have 6 downstreams and 4 upstreams. I would not be surprised to see some changes on the upstream very soon here as the upstreams are already bonded. I believe this upgrade is coming to San Antonio sometime after the analog cuts that are planned for later this month  It took a month from the analog cuts here for us to notice the two extra downstreams to popup in various hubs which someone posted on here one day and it took 3 weeks from then for the upgrade to reach the CMTS I am on. For some reason my area's CMTS is one of the last in the metro to get upgrades but we do get them. (I live in a Uverse area) Downstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status Modulation Channel ID Frequency Power SNR Correctables Uncorrectables 1 Locked QAM256 1 783000000 Hz -2.1 dBmV 37.2 dB 286 0 2 Locked QAM256 2 789000000 Hz -2.4 dBmV 37.3 dB 454 0 3 Locked QAM256 3 795000000 Hz -3.0 dBmV 36.2 dB 1146 0 4 Locked QAM256 4 801000000 Hz -3.1 dBmV 36.2 dB 1549 0 5 Locked QAM256 5 807000000 Hz -3.8 dBmV 35.4 dB 4924 21 6 Locked QAM256 6 813000000 Hz -3.6 dBmV 36.2 dB 2306 23 7 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB 0 0 8 Not Locked Unknown 0 0 Hz 0.0 dBmV 0.0 dB 0 0 Upstream Bonded Channels Channel Lock Status US Channel Type Channel ID Symbol Rate Frequency Power 1 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 10 2560 Ksym/sec 33000000 Hz 40.2 dBmV 2 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 9 2560 Ksym/sec 36500000 Hz 40.2 dBmV 3 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 11 2560 Ksym/sec 29500000 Hz 40.2 dBmV 4 Locked TDMA and ATDMA 12 2560 Ksym/sec 24500000 Hz 40.2 dBmV |
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| They have to compete with Verizon FiOS in Dallas. |
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| said by MURICA:They have to compete with Verizon FiOS in Dallas.
Well Verizon Fios is not available in Dallas proper I believe as most if not all of the city of Dallas is at&t territory. I wonder if this part of getting a head start on Uverse's planned upgrades to 75Mbps and 100Mbps by the end of the year. Also TWC competes with a local coop in Greenville Texas that is a part of the North Texas cluster who offers a 50Mbps cable internet package and maybe TWC is trying to beat them there as well? |
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| reply to motorola870
motorola870
Is the Ultimate 75 available in the lowly LA market? |
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said by txfeinbergs:Guys, just a heads up that I am now running Ultimate 75 for $90 in the DFW area. I called in because it looked like I was being overcharged for the Extreme tier ($79 vs what they are offering on their website of $59). Apparently they are calling this a "promotion". Anyway, while jumping through the hoops to get my bill reduced, I asked the agent what the cost of Ultimate was, and they said "which one". Apparently they offer Ultimate 50, and Ultimate 75 now. Unfortunately, the upstream speed is still the piddly 5 mbps on both of them.
I checked several addressed in Dallas and I didn't see any online pricing of $59 a month for the Ultimate tier. It was the Extreme tier that was $59 that I saw.
Can you share a screenshot of the pricing that you saw online? |
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| Actually, if you read my original post, it was the extreme tier that they lowered from $79 to $59, it is only while pursuing that cost adjusted price that I discovered the Ultimate 75. No the Ultimate Tiers are not $59. Ultimate 50 is now $79.99 (which is what many of use were paying for Extreme), and Ultimate 75 is $10 more. Since I was already being overcharged for Extreme, I went from 30 Mbps to 75 Mbps for only $10 more a month. Not bad. |
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| said by txfeinbergs:Actually, if you read my original post, it was the extreme tier that they lowered from $79 to $59, it is only while pursuing that cost adjusted price that I discovered the Ultimate 75. No the Ultimate Tiers are not $59. Ultimate 50 is now $79.99 (which is what many of use were paying for Extreme), and Ultimate 75 is $10 more. Since I was already being overcharged for Extreme, I went from 30 Mbps to 75 Mbps for only $10 more a month. Not bad.
Ah, gotcha. I read it too fast. But cool to hear the news about 75 mbits through |
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bryan85
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San Antonio, TX | reply to motorola870
I am at 4 down and 1 up right now, 50/5. An upload bump would really help with my Dropbox content. Right now I use LTE on my iPhone or iPad to upload @ roughly 20Mbps. |
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 pizzFiber pleasePremium
join:2000-10-27
Astoria, NY | reply to txfeinbergs
would be nice to bring this to new york market |
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| reply to horseshoe
said by horseshoe:motorola870
Is the Ultimate 75 available in the lowly LA market?
don't know but I have read that TWC is slowly rolling out 3 more DOCSIS downstreams in LA so maybe after that is completed the 75Mbps tier will be released there. |
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Ultimate 75 has been available since Jan. 1. |
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| said by joeb99:Ultimate 75 has been available since Jan. 1.
Where? |
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I am seeing all these speed increases and they make me jealous.
Time Warner Cable here hasn't even rolled out D3. I am on Turbo 20/2 on D2. |
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I previously posted that I live in Dallas and have been getting a solid 20/1 on Standard on a D2 modem for over two months. I even get 4 seconds of 30 Mbps PowerBoost.
Dallas is the headquarters for AT&T and FiOS is available in several suburbs. TWC's Dallas cable plant is fairly current. That might explain why Dallas is often near the front of the line for the new stuff. |
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said by bluepoint:said by joeb99:Ultimate 75 has been available since Jan. 1.
Where? probably only in the 2 systems in the Dallas area (Dallas metro 860MHz system which covers about 5 counties and the 750MHz Greenville and Commerce Texas system which covers 1 county)
Dallas was the first TWC system have more than 4 downstreams for the internet so I would assume that NYC shouldn't be too far behind unless capacity is an issue. We got 6 downstreams on the internet while NYC got upstream bonding which came to Dallas about 3 months after 6 channel downstream bonding. |
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| Not all in NYC is 8x4, my area is still @4x4 so I guess it will be awhile before we see the updates. |
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| said by bluepoint:Not all in NYC is 8x4, my area is still @4x4 so I guess it will be awhile before we see the updates.
what modem are you using? If it is a SB6120 or SB6121 then no it won't show the additional downstreams. |
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