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Post by dkennedy on Dec 9, 2006 12:13:52 GMT -5
Time Warner Cable to Crank up the speed
December 7, 2006
Time Warner Cable Email to Road Runner Residential Customers
Time Warner Cable, the company that was first at fast and first at fiber optics, is increasing your speed again. We're doubling it in the new year ... for no extra cost.
In the first quarter of 2007, Road Runner will be doubling the download speed for its residential customers to 10 Mbps. Our Time Warner Cable Business Class customers will experience similar increases in speed.* The same monthly price that you've been paying will stay the same.
Increased speed. Same price. Great deal.
We haven't told the media yet. This is a special notice directly to you, our loyal and valued Road Runner customer. In the coming weeks, you'll see more information about this exciting improvement in your internet service.
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Post by hurnik on Dec 9, 2006 17:26:53 GMT -5
Too bad it's still more expensive than Verizon and in my area, we are WAY oversubbed. Even "local" to TW, at the current 8Mbps, I'm getting MAYBE 2 Mbps download. With Verizon FIOS I'm getting somewhere around 6-8Mbps to Verizon.
But it's good to know that they're responding to economic pressure.
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Post by rdf8585 on Feb 28, 2007 11:17:35 GMT -5
No boost yet here in Schenectady.
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Post by dkennedy on Mar 8, 2007 18:33:00 GMT -5
Download speed has gone up to 7135kbps today for me...upload speed has remained a constant 355kbps.
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Post by dkennedy on Mar 8, 2007 20:17:27 GMT -5
And WHAT A BOOST!!!
I just ran Network Magic on my main server at home after rebooting the Road Runner modem, here are my numbers between Sarataga Springs and NYC:
Download Speed: 9270 kbps
Upload Speed: 1066 kbps
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Post by hurnik on Mar 8, 2007 21:38:24 GMT -5
I get 9661 download and 1600 upload with FIOS and it's $10/month cheaper than TW. Of course, I 've had it for 6 months too, whereas it took TW this long just to finally crank up the speed? (last time when TW was supposedly at 4Mbps, I was getting about 20% of that to TW own servers). But it's nice to know that some people are at least getting the speed that they're paying for.
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Post by dkennedy on Mar 9, 2007 6:26:21 GMT -5
No FIOS this way yet  |
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Post by hurnik on Mar 9, 2007 22:09:37 GMT -5
Yeah, but you're getting some pretty good speed though. Apparently my neighborhood was over subscribed given the 20% QOS I was getting to TW. I just wish I had FIOS TV (how much longer?)
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Post by psternklar on Mar 10, 2007 6:32:23 GMT -5
I do not want to sound like a TW fan boy but FIOS customer service is horrible. Two times I have tried to move my RR and phone to them from RR and both times they messed up the date. I have missed two days from work. Each time they told me "we can do it in 2-3 more days". Both times they could not guarantee the "new" day. I think I will stick with RR fro now until FIOS gets their act together.
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Post by Skaggs on Mar 10, 2007 11:10:25 GMT -5
What are you guys using to measure your speeds? I have always used this website: reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.htmlCan you post a link to your method? Also, do you have to reboot your TWC cable modem to pick up the new increased speeds? |
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Post by dkennedy on Mar 13, 2007 6:43:30 GMT -5
I use Network Magic ( www.networkmagic.com) , you can download a free trial and I did reboot my cable modem before performing the test. |
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Post by Skaggs on Mar 13, 2007 17:09:46 GMT -5
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Post by MasterFX1 on Mar 13, 2007 17:14:48 GMT -5
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Post by dkennedy on Mar 16, 2007 5:07:00 GMT -5
Well it's official...Time Warner sent an email on the speed increase...
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Road Runner speed has increased
March 15, 2007
Time Warner Albany News Release
We told you about it before New Year's, and now it has happened.
Your Road Runner speed has increased. The normal speed has doubled to 10 megabits per second download and 1 MB per second upload.
For Road Runner Turbo customers, your speed has nearly doubled to 15 MB per second download and 1 MB per second upload.
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