 Review by Mchart 
UPDATED: 85 days ago
member for 5.8 years, 1734 visits, last login: a few hours ago
 San Antonio,Bexar,TX
 $29 per month (6 month contract)
 "Downstream Bandwidth / Price"
 "Upstream Bandwidth, Getting less downstream then advertised"
 "It's pretty good for the price, but the upstream bandwidth is a joke"
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After some escapades trying to get this service installed, everything is working as it should. A reasonable 5mbps downstream, but a joke of an upstream 512kbps. Service was advertised as 7mbps/512kbps. I'm getting almost exactly 5mbps downstream. This ratio is a joke. No serious filesharing can be done. (Albeit TimeWarner doesn't want people filesharing, but I could care less.)
Bottom line is that for the area this is all I could really get, and the price is pretty good. Compare to my other review however, and i'm unimpressed.
I have yet to actually see if this connection will be reliable or not; but from my personal experiance with any cable service (At least in the Chicagoland and mid-west area) it never was. Maybe TimeWarner is different.
Note that after doing a few different speedtests, i'm not receiving nearly as much downstream speed as I should be. It is hopping in and out anywhere between 2.5 to 5mbps. Fairly dissapointed.
Followup comments:  hottboiinnc
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join:2003-10-15
Cleveland, OH | Within Range you are within your range for download speeds. And the keyword is also UPTO. The only way they'd do something for download speed is if you were only getting 2 or 3megs down or lower. Upload is usually 512 unless you have have Turbo. | |
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