kd6caeP2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Palmdale, CA Reviews:
 ·Vitelity VOIP
| TWC should at least offer more speed I've been a TWC subscriber since July 2008, when I had TWC business class 15/2 speeds. Since then, I've had to dump business class do to some kind of rediculous packet shaping that TWC was doing on their network where I couldn't sustain an FTP or HTTP transfer as it'd always get reset.
Back then the top residential tier here in Socal was 10/1. But now the top tier for both business and residential cable customers is 15/2, and has been that for some time. Of course residential does have powerboost, but to me that's a complete joke and is only good for downloading short files of a few megs. It doesn't really help if you're trying to download a multi-gig file when having faster speeds on a constant basis would be useful to have.
I'd like to see Time Warner increase top tier speeds here in Southern California to at least 20 mbits downstream and 3 or 4 mbits upstream which I'm sure could be done without even going to Docsis 3.
Why isn't Southern California getting any kind of speed increase whatsoever after over 2 years? I very well may downgrade back to standard tier because really I'm not sure there's all that much of a difference between the 2 options. What will it take for TWC to actually give customers more? Maybe the shareholders actually working for TWC? I don't know, I'm just wishing something would happen. |
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| At least you get 2Mb up... that's 266% of my upload on turbo... |
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 djrobx
join:2000-05-31
Valencia, CA
kudos:1
·VOIPo
 ·Verizon Wireless..
 ·RoadRunner Cable
 ·AT&T U-Verse
·PHONE POWER
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What will it take for TWC to actually give customers more? Even AT&T is able to get me a 24/3 connection. I was very turned off by Time Warner's "surgical" approach to upgrades in the LA area, and I'm not sorry I dumped them. AT&T may also be taking the cheapest route with their VDSL upgrade strategy, but at least I can appreciate that they're trying to innovate. The U-verse TV product has some flaws, but it's got a lot of potential. It would be amazing with just a bit more bandwidth.
Time Warner in my area is still shoveling buggy DVR software that Comcast delivered in 2003 on DVRs with 160gb of space. TW seems very content with being as mediocre as possible. Now they're going to hold DOCSIS 3 over our heads as a bargaining chip for caps? REALLY? Pathetic.
If Time Warner is so cash starved, why has Comcast been able to upgrade their customers without the ridiculously low caps and without all the whining from their CEO?
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kd6caeP2p Shouldn't Be A Crime
join:2001-08-27
Palmdale, CA Reviews:
·Vitelity VOIP
| reply to kd6cae
I wish Comcast still had a presence here in southern California. At least they give their customers decent upstream and downstream options, something TWC obviously doesn't want to attempt to try and do. Why have only New York and Dallas seen D3 upgrades? They make no sense to me, but as they're the fastest consumer internet around I'm stuck with them. |
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cramer
join:2007-04-10
Raleigh, NC
kudos:7 | reply to talz13
Actually, he most likely didn't. I have a site using TWC:BC @ 1M up. At 500k they start dropping traffic. Confirmed by one of their network engineers... that's how the network is setup. |
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rradina
join:2000-08-08
Chesterfield, MO | reply to djrobx
AT&T does the same type of "surgical" upgrades. I can throw a stone at houses that have U-Verse. They are beyond 20,000ft from the CO just like me. Unfortunately, the two subdivisions were built 10 years apart and they didn't exist when my subdivision existed. AT&T must have installed remote terminals in their subdivision but ignored mine. It's now been two years since they announced U-Verse in my area and nothing has been done to bring U-Verse to my subdivision.
Finally Clear is offering service in St. Louis. For the first time in 11 years, I actually have a competitive choice for HSI. $40/month for 6/1 service (slow compared to Charter's 8/1 with speed boost) but it's cheaper. Charter charges $49/month, Clear is $40/month.
By this time I would have thought AT&T would be more of a competitor to Charter in my area. They've done nothing in all that time. |
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