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Time Warner Cable 30Mbps
But only in developments in San Antonio
by Karl Bode Saturday 11-Feb-2006 tags: bandwidth · cable
Time Warner Cable is offering 30Mbps Cable tiers to some upscale apartment dwellers in San Antonio. In that market, the company will offer 10 Mbps service to Xtreme users for $69.95 a month, 15 Mbps service for $129.95 a month, and its 30 Mbps service for $199.95. Don't expect the tiers in other TWC markets however. The cable giant often offers services that aren't offered everywhere (see San Antonio 6Mbps and 2003's Roadrunner Xtreme). The article does state faster speeds (like a country-wide 10Mbps tier) are coming during the second half of '06.

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Blonco
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San Antonio, TX

Upload Please

Download speeds are nice but for the love of all that is Holy...give us more upload. 1 Mbps would be nice.

Romney2012
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Re: Upload Please

said by Blonco:

Download speeds are nice but for the love of all that is Holy...give us more upload. 1 Mbps would be nice.
Very high prices for download. But no upload increases?? I couldn't find any info on what the upload speeds would be in the news article. Anyone have info on that?
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attsbcisgay

join:2003-03-18
Beverly Hills, CA
Upload are as follow:
10/384
15/512
30/768
lol.
what a stingy corporation. sucks doesn't it?
That's terrible!!! I"m sticking with SBC pro at 3.0/512
for a mere 21.99 for the next 6 months.
RR can go to hell.
Newegg

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Lawrenceville, GA
Reviews:
·Comcast

Re: Upload Please

said by attsbcisgay:

Upload are as follow:
10/384
15/512
30/768
lol.
what a stingy corporation. sucks doesn't it?
That's terrible!!! I"m sticking with SBC pro at 3.0/512
for a mere 21.99 for the next 6 months.
RR can go to hell.
That upload is a joke. Should be like this.
10/1
15/2
30/5
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thender2
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Staten Island, NY

Re: Upload Please

said by Newegg:

said by attsbcisgay:

Upload are as follow:
10/384
15/512
30/768
lol.
what a stingy corporation. sucks doesn't it?
That's terrible!!! I"m sticking with SBC pro at 3.0/512
for a mere 21.99 for the next 6 months.
RR can go to hell.
That upload is a joke. Should be like this.
10/1
15/2
30/5
That's garbage. I'd rather have my 3/768 than their 15/512, just on general principle. All that money for the package and they're still so far behind.
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Kompressor
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FiOS runs at:
5/2
15/2
30/5
CraigBee

join:2004-07-23
Overland Park, KS
That is a JOKE! I was about to post a sourcastic remark that it would be 10/384, but its for real?!? You got to bit kidding me? This is why I left RR for Cyberonic about 18 months ago. I can get 6/768 dry line with Cyberonic. My god, you must get 30 meg down service for $200 to get 768 up?!? WTF

pcscdma
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Winterset, IA
That's worse than Mediacom's 20:1 ratio
5000/256

Youn might be able to get a UDP stream going at 30mb, but the ACKs for TCP will completely saturate the upload.
vic102482
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Upper Marlboro, MD
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said by attsbcisgay:

Upload are as follow:
10/384
15/512
30/768
lol.
what a stingy corporation. sucks doesn't it?
That's terrible!!! I"m sticking with SBC pro at 3.0/512
for a mere 21.99 for the next 6 months.
RR can go to hell.
That is terrible. Simply downloading would saturate any uplad stream on that type of connection.
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HappyBunny
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Long Beach, CA
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Well try having Charter, we are still stuck at 3/256. And what backwater am I in, you may ask?

Los Angeles.

They give stingy a whole new meaning.

G_Poobah

join:2004-01-17
Schenectady, NY
Here's the quote that shows you how totally out of touch the executives are..

"Although Xtreme's monthly rates of up to $200 likely put the service out of most consumers' price range, Henry said people with home offices, executives looking to connect to their corporate networks and die-hard online gamers will be interested."

1) A home office needs to be able to run services (mail or web or etc). All those are blocked in the home networks.

2) Executives looking to connect their corporate network require synchronous speeds. 30mb/.76mb is pointless for a home office worker. (and it violates their terms of service)

3) Die Hard Gamers care about ping times. 30mb is pointless, they just need pings.

Just for fun, "Right now most consumers are satisfied with regular broadband," Atlanta-based telecom analyst Jeff Kagan said. "That's fine for what they use the Internet for. But it's not going to be that way forever. At some point, consumers will be doing things like downloading whole movies." Well, DUH, we already DO download movies, music, tvshows, etc, pretty much everything digital.
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Jigsaw
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Cleveland, OH

Re: Upload Please

said by G_Poobah:

3) Die Hard Gamers care about ping times. 30mb is pointless, they just need pings.

Forget the Bling WE want the Pings:p.Really like you said having 30 meg will do nothing for a gamer.Now maybe say a 1 or 2 meg upload may help out a little thou.
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Sarge_0321

join:2002-06-27
San Diego, CA
This is a part of the point of the original corporate planned roll-out for residential 'internet'. It was to be as a means for offering products and services via a high speed network. It wasn't intended as a means for the end user to UPLOAD HUGE AMOUNTS OF DATA.

Your role is to use your remote control and order whatever is being sold through the TV. It doesn't take much bandwidth to send a product order request. The bandwidth would be reserved for the movie coming down the pipe.

So basically, they will provide a system that is adequate for receiving entertainment. Not any bandwidth intensive applications originating from the home.
fiberguy
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You obviously don't know much about TWC then because TWC isn't that harsh on people running servers or FTP or mail. They are probably the most loose when it comes to this. They do not block all those ports. In fact, they DO monitor the network and when servers are found, at most usually, they call up and ask what they are using the servers for. If the useage isn't tearing up the node, they move along.

And additionally, a home office does not always need to be able to run mail or web services on their connection. TWC offers that service on their hosted networks if needed.
raye
Premium
join:2000-08-14
Orange, CA

and 512 kbps upload?

You folks at broadband reports and/or the other journalists reporting on this need to include upload info. TWC is turning theri Internet access into another TV set for the home, all download, no upload.

Hall
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join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
kudos:1

Re: and 512 kbps upload?

said by raye:

You folks at broadband reports and/or the other journalists reporting on this need to include upload info.
The average customer doesn't know, nor care, about upload rates. Even my local TW's website doesn't list the upload rate (without digging for it). They talk about "Great news! Road Runner just got FASTER! With speeds up to 5.0 Mbps, it's the fastest residential speed in the area!" and "You now have a choice to go even faster with Road Runner Premium. With speeds as fast as 8.0 Mbps down". Put "upload" in their search box and you get NO results.

superht1

join:2001-02-22
Kennesaw, GA

Re: and 512 kbps upload?

said by Hall:

said by raye:

You folks at broadband reports and/or the other journalists reporting on this need to include upload info.
The average customer doesn't know, nor care, about upload rates. Even my local TW's website doesn't list the upload rate (without digging for it). They talk about "Great news! Road Runner just got FASTER! With speeds up to 5.0 Mbps, it's the fastest residential speed in the area!" and "You now have a choice to go even faster with Road Runner Premium. With speeds as fast as 8.0 Mbps down". Put "upload" in their search box and you get NO results.
That's kind of shady.. Scam.. Hoax. It's evil.

odreian615

join:2006-01-18
Chicago, IL

hopefully in 5 years all highspeed broadband

will be at least 15mps for under 49.99 I can only pray

ArchAngel21x
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Lincoln, NE

Re: hopefully in 5 years all highspeed broadband

15 Megs download speed under 49.99. Be patient.

15 Megs upload speed under 49.99. Keep praying.
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kba4

join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
Reviews:
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·AT&T U-Verse

nothing new...

it's the same old thing. how much you wanna bet that the UL is still a sh!tty 384Kbps (1/3Mbps! ooh!!)? TW doesn't get it. the US broadband scene doesn't get it. we're not even top-ten worldwide in broadband and this is why. stop increasing DL; it's useless to have 30Mbps. what is it good for? seriously! put some effort into UL improvements and i'll pay $70/mo.
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Hall
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join:2000-04-28
Dayton, OH
kudos:1

Cost...

$200 a month for residential internet service.... Somehow I don't see too many people jumping at that....

VikingBob

join:2004-06-05
Ste Anne, MB

Re: Cost...

You would be surprised at how many folks have more money than brains!
baylorguy

join:2004-09-30
San Antonio, TX

Re: Cost...

a fool and his money are always welcome

CableTool
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Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

Low uploads are pretty much the only thing keeping people from becoming a server....

kba4

join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

i got news for you, we're all operating servers. the scale is all you're specifying and why shouldn't i be allowed to UL fast if the technology exists and i'm willing to pay? i want more than 1Mbps up though or it's not worth it.
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Groveboy

@208.17.x.x

Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

What do you mean we all are? I'm not running a server.

kba4

join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

did you post here or not? you do send email with attachments right? ok maybe not mail but you've uploaded something in the past month right? the point is upload=server, download=servee. the future most definitely holds a bounty of media across trusted machines. we'll be swapping more than simple 3MB mp3's... home videos, real CD .wav audio, digital pics for example. on a petty 512 connection this stuff can take hours.
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GroveBoy

@208.17.x.x

Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

TomaTO ToMAto.

Just posting here does not make a server. A server 'serves' as in web pages for people connecting to your 'server'

Sending mail and uploading stuff is just that - uploading.

Not really a server.

kba4

join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
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·RoadRunner Cable
·AT&T U-Verse

Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

it's serving with a middleman- the 'legal server' between. i agree, it's not a warez ftp box but your PC is still serving files to another remote location, and utilizing most if not all your UL capacity.
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jap
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038xx

Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

You're fabricating meaning. A 'server' is a program or device designed to accept connections initiated by others for the purpose of supplying the requester with data of some sort. Technically, BitTorrent and several other p2p apps are functioning as servers. Other common residential traffic - mail, ftp puts, web-posts, etc. - are all client-based because they are initiating the request. The fact that requests for service involves upstream traffic means nothing.

It's the restaurant model: the customer (client) dictates what transactions occur and when. The server may refuse certain items, may set fixed terms of transaction, may kick you out of the restaurant, but never gets to decide what the client eats. One is in the proactive role (client), the other a reactive role (server).

kba4

join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

point taken. but the original point here is that we need more UL, not DL. i don't know what it is with US ISP's but most all of them just don't get it- all the consumer technology i've described (music, photos, movies) is pretty much useless with poor upstream to share it with others.
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Cheese
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Naples, FL
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

said by kba4:

point taken. but the original point here is that we need more UL, not DL. i don't know what it is with US ISP's but most all of them just don't get it- all the consumer technology i've described (music, photos, movies) is pretty much useless with poor upstream to share it with others.
And if it's warez, it's illegal to begin with. Most specifically, movie and music. Yes, people upload home made movies, but really, how often? No where near the amount of pirated material. And how big are photos the average human sends? Not very big. While fast uploads would be great, the only thing I really do is upload files to a game server, some of the files are big, not to big as to take hours to upload.

kba4

join:2001-10-23
Canton, OH
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

old thread time...lol

so should i take it you fall into the camp that agrees if you have nothing to hide, let the NSA (odd how that sounds like 'nazi' when spoken as a word heh) tap your conversations, etc.?

my point from the beginning is this: if we had higher UL, we'd send more movies and pics (legitimate and pirated, who cares if you're willing to be held accountable). the low capacity if our 'broadband' UL does inspire better compression algorithms, however, and i suppose that is one positive outcome of it all. but in the end i'd rather listen to full CD-quality 1440Kbps audio from the CD than a 320Kbps mp3 if i have the right to do so and our current broadband offerings in non-FIOS communities simply do not allow this reality.
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Cheese
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Naples, FL
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

said by kba4:

old thread time...lol

so should i take it you fall into the camp that agrees if you have nothing to hide, let the NSA (odd how that sounds like 'nazi' when spoken as a word heh) tap your conversations, etc.?

my point from the beginning is this: if we had higher UL, we'd send more movies and pics (legitimate and pirated, who cares if you're willing to be held accountable). the low capacity if our 'broadband' UL does inspire better compression algorithms, however, and i suppose that is one positive outcome of it all. but in the end i'd rather listen to full CD-quality 1440Kbps audio from the CD than a 320Kbps mp3 if i have the right to do so and our current broadband offerings in non-FIOS communities simply do not allow this reality.
No, I don't fall into that camp, I used to download and so forth, I don't anymore. It's not worth the hassle. And as far as the government spying, I am totally against that, if they feel they have something, they should have to get a search warranty just like anyone else. If they can prove it, great, if not, GTFO.
RadioDoc
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said by CableTool:

Low uploads are pretty much the only thing keeping people from becoming a server....
Well then, how about building the network so it doesn't unravel when people do run servers? SBC (for instance) doesn't seem to have any problem with that--it's even in the TOS that servers are permitted. How 'come cable is so scared of them?
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

From what I understand, it is a combination of limitations with the current DOCSIS and the fact that cable is a shared medium. There is a fear that people will try to max their upload potential 24/7 if we are allowed to use it any way we want.
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RadioDoc
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Re: Low Uploads = Bandwidth control

Precisely. But you'll never get any of them to admit that it's the real reason. They just keep on making excuses and blaming this design defect on their customers.
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DeeC
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said by RadioDoc:

said by CableTool:

Low uploads are pretty much the only thing keeping people from becoming a server....
Well then, how about building the network so it doesn't unravel when people do run servers? SBC (for instance) doesn't seem to have any problem with that--it's even in the TOS that servers are permitted. How 'come cable is so scared of them?
Well said

Ignite
Premium,VIP
join:2004-03-18
UK

Crappy Article

Oooo look it's probably a trial of DOCSIS 3, with a nice press release attached.

Quoting from the story:

quote:
Because the residences in an apartment complex are close together, the company can offer faster speeds than those it delivers to housing developments. Broadband speeds tend to drop the further the computer user is from network equipment.
Erm, no darling that'd be DSL that is affected by distance, not cable.

To be honest this is a complete non-event. It'd be far more appropriate to call this a technology trial and e-peen extending press release. Cheap asses charging 200 bucks a month to triallists too!

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Rshinra

@dyn.grandenetworks.n

Time Warner SA does have competition

This is kind of interesting because San Antonio is kind of unique because there are 2 cable companies with their own lines in this town. The other is grande communications. I think they have about 2/3 of the city wired now and they have good packages can get voice data and basic cable for like $75 a month and the best part the 3.0/384 tier is $20 but after a while you seem to get 8.0/512 service I guess they forget or something

Last Result:
Download Speed: 7056 kbps (882 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 414 kbps (51.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

their website isn't very up to date on pricing but they are covering most of central Texas now i think their high end tier is like 10/1 but I haven't talked to them in a long time because nothing goes down

so hopefully this will spark some nice price wars

thatnumber

@nycmny.fios.verizon.

what is it with $200 for 30mbit

What up with dat!
The top tier for consumers shouldn't be more than $100, and should be part of a system-wide upgrades with lowering prices every year. Anything else is wasteful and not worth the its weight in dog poop. Every year there should be a 5-10 megabit upgrade until we get to the 100/100 holy grail.

oldTDNickell5
Premium
join:2000-12-19
Federal Way, WA

Are you kidding?

I would never pay that kind of money for any speed.:(

15 Mbps service for $129.95 a month:(:o

kamm

join:2001-02-14
Brooklyn, NY

1 edit

Good ol' clueless retarded TWC

Still don't get it. They still don't fuckin get it - it's amazing how these utterly stupid idiots can keep their chairs - TWC is one of the most idiot-ridden companies...
jchambers106

join:2004-12-10
Kansas City, MO

Re: upload

the reason i think that TW doesn't increase upload is takes more fiber to handle upload speed which means they have to run more fiber to nodes an whatever and = lots of money at 2.00 a foot for fiber optical cable that's not cheap with dsl there is no fiber to deal with if u want faster downloads u go with cable if its faster uploads u want u go with dsl one of my cable friends told me that correct me if I'm wrong please
patcat88

join:2002-04-05
Jamaica, NY
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Re: upload

Ever heard about DWDM (dense wave division multiplex)? you can multiple the exisiting bandwidth upto 160 times.

dadkins
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Hercules, CA
kudos:18

Blah Blah Blah...

Symetrical is what people want!

2/2 - 5/5 - 10/10 - ???/???

WTF is this 30/512k shit? Lame!
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ViviTheMage
vivi
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Minneapolis, MN

ugh

wrothless, worthless. I cant wait for fios to hit everyone and these cable companys can disappear
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gigahurtz
Premium
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Palm Coast, FL

Not even news worthy..

This isn't even news worthy. I was expecting some reasonable prices but that is ridiculous. $199.95 for 30mbps service? Does TW not see FiOS/Optimum Online in the north east? I know it's probably not in the area but what happened to being LEADERS instead of followers. I can understand a little more for that speed but that is ridiculous.

I'll stick with my 5/384 package for $40 a month (although that's still kinda high).
Tristan9669

join:2004-08-07
Beverly Hills, CA

Comcast?

What about comcast will they upgrade around the same time?
BigRooster

join:2005-08-07
Rialto, CA

Re: Comcast?

Probably not. They've just upgraded last part of '05. TW and CC have the same mentality though: high download (if you can call 10mbit down fast anymore) and a slowass upload.

CPM
Broadband, DSL, cable

join:2001-08-24
Brooklyn, NY

Hmmm

You might see your upgrade in 2012 like our OOL.
scubascythan

join:2005-05-14

_

Wow, I'm jealous but I live in Canada where the speeds are standard across the country for one ISP. Guess in the states companies don't worry about getting service to customers but rather upgrades to those who already have them, sucks to be those in the rural areas.

idlewillkill
Go Blue
Premium
join:2005-09-28
North York, ON

Re: _

There is no ISP in Canada that provides identical speeds nationwide.

Frydays

join:2005-10-21
South Padre Island, TX

RE: Time Warner Cable 30Mbps

so there will be a speed increase all over texas where i live to when is this speed update?
majortom1981

join:2004-08-26
Lindenhurst, NY

I have cablevision

I always wondered why the other cable providers dont do what cablevision is doing. they all use the same equipment basically right?

How can cablevision offer 15/2 for 49.99 and 45.99 but timewarner and comcast cant?

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Tzale
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NYC Metro

Upload

The upload should be preferably 2mbps, 5mbps would be nice.

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MeMyselfI

@rr.com

FYI

I have worked for TWC for 11 years now, and boy has the industry changed. Anyhoo, TWC corporate has given a green light to all of its divisions to increase their speeds for the standard tier (currently 5000/384) to 7000/512. Upload increase is coming soon.
tt15
Premium
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Stillwater, NY

Re: FYI

I DO NOT BELIEVE YOU!!

Tzale
Proud Libertarian Conservative
Premium
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NYC Metro
said by MeMyselfI :

I have worked for TWC for 11 years now, and boy has the industry changed. Anyhoo, TWC corporate has given a green light to all of its divisions to increase their speeds for the standard tier (currently 5000/384) to 7000/512. Upload increase is coming soon.
If they can upgrade everyone to Docsis 2.0, like Cablevision's Optimum Online then they could provide 30mbps/2mbps.

Best bet? Wait for Verizon FIOS to come to you and get the 15/2 plan or the 30/5 plan for $54.95/month (not available in all areas).

-Tzale
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bluecat

@162.136.x.x
oh, okay, so upload speed is improving from pathetic to awful.
thank you twc corporate.

I'd drop twc in an instant if fios was available in my area.
grandpinaple

join:2006-01-03
New York, NY
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