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Re: Faster Speeds?

Also with WOW you get 3 IPs, not just one. I am wondering when they will stop that. I have all 3 of mine in use. One is for a standalone wireless router, one for my main wired router and one has a Linux server on it with one NIC directly on the Internet and one in the DMZ of my wired router.

If you like to play with stuff, having 3 IPs is nice, granted that most people would never use more than one.

I am pretty sure Comcast will not give you 3 IPs.

So whats the advantage of having three different external IP's besides running a home business web server?

Using a router that assigns 192.168.0.xxx IP's would work just the same.

Another company boosts speeds. Lowest tier will be 15/5, versus WOW at 2/1.

»Leaked Memo: New Cablevision Speeds Arrive July 15

The 50Mbps is expensive in general. Midcontinent here in Rapid City has a 100Mbps that is cheaper than WOW's 50Mbps tier.

Friend of mine has Comcast. She hates it. It's down more than it's up. She's always calling the tech at least once a month to either fix her phone or fix her internet.

According to the BBB, Comcast scores a B- while WOW scores an A+.

really time to bump speeds. even the small carriers are beating them.

2/1 to 15/2.
15/1 to 30/5.
30/3 to 50/10.
50/5 to 100/20.

they could even keep the 2/1 on as an economy package for lower income families for $20/month or something.

One can only hope...

The 2/1 tier is a joke in this day & age. That's slower than DSL. Should be 6 or 8meg minimum, unless their network has some serious capacity issues.

Except WOW offers at least 80% speed guarantee where what you compare it to is a bunch of up to speeds, so you'll never get those speeds. Sure they have boosters for the first how many seconds of your action, to fool the speedtests, but that doesn't guarantee you crap.

I agree on the speeds they need a bump, all I have is internet from WOW.
50/5 should be around $65 a month.

WOW may offer at 80% speed guarantee but when I left Comcast I was always getting 100% of my rated speeds if the site I was communicating with could handle it, even when I had the 50/10 tier.

I agree that Wows tiers should be more closely linked to Comcast. I think these tiers should move up at the current prices similar to previous posters.

2/1 should become 8/1.
15/1 should become 1 30/5.
30/3 should become 1 50/10.
50/5 should become 1 100/20

Just heard an ad on the radio today gloating at their internet variety. It really upset me the way they offered speed for anyone, with so many speeds. They currently don't have any speed for your average user. Even for the most basic user on the modern web 2 just isn't enough, but for most people 15 is overkill. Not to mention they only offer 4 speeds. Time Warner by me has 6, so I hate that WOW is pushing the variety thing. Anyway the 4 speeds should be

4/1
12/2
30/3
50/5

I think they should add a fifth and have it be like 75/8 or something.

This would give them wide range and still be relevant to most users.

Going from 2 to 15 is to much of a jump especially when most typical users would fall in that range.

The price jump from 30/3 to 50/5 is also too high. They need one or two more offerings and space them out better and have the pricing match and would be good.

If they offered faster speeds.. they would have to start adding a bandwidth cap which none of us want.

the only people who want the 100+ meg speeds are the heavy users. bandwidth caps would have to be in place to protect the network.

It's the upload speeds they really need to increase. I'm fine with 15 down at the current prices, but it should be 2 up MINIMUM. 5 would be nice but probably wishful thinking in that tier. I don't even upload that much but not waiting forever when I do would be lovely.
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agreed. up speed is the bigger issue. these horrible upload speeds are no good for multiple gamers in the house.

They wouldn't have to add caps. Caps don't solve the bandwidth issue. Dynamic throttling does. If its peak time and your capping out your speed the whole time they can and should slow you down until overall traffic decreases. But my main use comes at about 2-5 am. I could sustain 100mbps the whole time and it wouldn't matter.

I also specifically said 75 in my post. I don't need the speeds, but having 50 be the premium tier priced out of line with the rest isn't really modern at all. Hell, uverse is adding 45, then. Will have 6 speed options. So wow will have less choices and almos the same max option as uverse. That's embarrassing for an up and coming cable company trying to grow. Sure they have been around a while, but only recently have they started buying other large companies and growing.

I question that too. The fate of the cable co as we know it as soon as 5-10 years from now is unknown. Can't believe they spent close to a billion expanding in the current state of the industry.

Plus speeds of 50 or more will be needed sooner than later. 4k streaming. Xbox one and ps4 will have physical media still. But will be pushing online downloads too. Those games will be 20+gb probably. Ps4 has that game streaming and live streaming your gameplay. Just think I'm pushing the boundaries of 30mbps now. Where as just 5 years ago I was thrilled to upgrade to 4mbps on WOW. Demand is greatly increasing. Video quality is going up, games are getting bigger, households have more and more devices sharing the bandwidth. The days of the family computer is over. My household of 3 people often has 5 or 6 devices using the connection at once. Streaming Netflix while playing an online game, someone else is downloading something on their pc but using iPad in the other room. Needs are going up. They always will be going up.

Innovation. As we get faster speeds, we will get services we can even imagine right now.

For instance it opens up new possibilities for cloud services. Right now I only backup txt files, spreadsheets, etc... If I had faster services, I'd move my MP3s, movies, etc to the cloud.

Streaming video is going to become more and more the norm. It would be nice if streaming was instantaneous, rather than watching a buffering scale.

I wasn't saying the need wasn't there.

I was saying if they increased our speed, the people with the increased speed would hog all the bandwidth just because they can. That means WOW would have to place bandwidth caps on the network in order to protect their network and other subscribers.

I don't want bandwidth caps.

I call BS on this. Just being upgraded to faster speeds is not going to change how a given person uses their internet connection. It will allow them to do what they are already doing that much faster and maybe even relieve congestion on the network.

Just like if they raised the speed limit on the freeway. You would not drive more 'just because you can'. You would just spend less time using the freeway per day and you'd even increase it's capacity because people are spending less time driving on it.

And another company bumps speeds. Tier by tier, WOW has to have some of the slower caps in the USA.

»Time Warner Cable Bumping Speeds Slightly