free rr turbo for a year

[the block]

For those interested, I just got free road runner turbo for a year because I complained my cable bill was too high and will be leaving for fios when(ever) it arrives. I complained to the guy in the live chat and he said he'd make a note on my account for the next point of contact to help me and gave me the number to the sales department. I called them, the woman I talked to didn't seem to have any idea what the online chat guy was talking about, and then I told her he was going to give me free road runner turbo, and then she was like ok. She looked up the promo code for it and applied it to my account. Said it was free for 1 year, and I just need to reboot the cable modem when I get home. I was ok with that, it should speed my usenet along, and after a year if fios isn't available to me yet, I will just call and complain again. Good luck.

[Chris Miller]

What's the difference between RoadRunner and RoadRunner Turbo?

[the block]

Regular RoadRunner is 10Mbps down (bursts up to 15Mbps), 1Mbps up
RoadRunner Turbo is 15Mbps down (bursts up to 25Mbps), 1Mbps up

[xzi]

1Mbps up. LAME again, $20 more. Nicely done TW.

[Chris Miller]

Mar 7, 2011 11:30:47 GMT -5 the block said:

Regular RoadRunner is 10Mbps down (bursts up to 15Mbps), 1Mbps up
RoadRunner Turbo is 15Mbps down (bursts up to 25Mbps), 1Mbps up

It's still only 1 Mbs up? It's odd how the PowerBoost™ bursts only work for 15 - 20 seconds at a time. Basically, it's long enough to skew the speed tests so that you'll get results like


After the PowerBoost stops, how long do you have to wait before you can get it again? I''ll keep the FiOS, I get the same speeds 24/7.