• Time Warner Speeds up Internet in Austin
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[quote]AUSTIN (KXAN) — Time Warner Cable started rolling out faster internet speeds for customers in Central Texas. A release from the company says that more than 100,000 customers should have the faster service at no extra cost. That’s up to 300 megabits per second. Even more customers will see faster speeds next month. Information wars rage on in Austin area Texas-based AT&T said in a regulatory filing Tuesday the deal to buy DirecTV would let it build more fiber connections. The filing said its deal would enable an upgrade to 2 million additional fiber locations, and expand high speed broadband to 13 million locations.[/quote] [url=http://kxan.com/2014/06/03/time-warner-rolls-out-faster-internet-speeds-in-austin/]source[/url]
im glad these poor defenseless isps are trying to put a fight against the google/at&t gigabit tyrant
Meanwhile they're fucking over their customers in San Diego even more [editline]5th June 2014[/editline] Fuck you Time Warner
I love how TWC can skyrocket their speeds when other gigabit services roll into a city.
Improving just enough to lower incentives to leave their service.
[QUOTE=FullStreak12;45009928]I love how TWC can skyrocket their speeds when other gigabit services roll into a city.[/QUOTE] they should've just had it faster before wtf
its too bad in upstate NY TWC after the merge has CONSTANTLY been down.
Keep in mind thats 300 megabits distributed equally between the 100,000 customers
[QUOTE=Valdor;45009919]Meanwhile they're fucking over their customers in San Diego even more [editline]5th June 2014[/editline] Fuck you Time Warner[/QUOTE] I'm glad Bright House split off from them, though they're not much better.
Now do it in my area thanks and also stop shutting it off every 5 minutes.
I just got my new modem from crime warner earlier today. I had to be on the phone with condescending tech support scrubs for 2 hours to get the damn thing working. It took an additional half hour or so to turn off all of the shit integrated into the modem (the old modem was just a modem.) And the new modem is fuckin ugly and huge, it's 3 times the size as the old modem. My old speed was 15/2, my new speed is: [img]http://www.speedtest.net/result/3545969027.png[/img] (I live just south of Austin.)
[QUOTE=AJ10017;45010043]Keep in mind thats 300 megabits distributed equally between the 100,000 customers[/QUOTE] ~redact speedtest no fun allowed~ i could enter formula one races with this speed
You are reminded that speedtests are now bannable. Just before anyone else does it.
[QUOTE=AJ10017;45010043]Keep in mind thats 300 megabits distributed equally between the 100,000 customers[/QUOTE] Entirely depends on which tier of service you're on. The only people getting 300 mbit are the people that had the "Ultimate" plan tier before. Here's how the speed bumps work: ELP: 2/1 is now 3/1 (Everyday Low Price) - This is $14.99/mo Basic: 3/1 is now 10/1 - $29.99/mo Standard: 15/1 is now 50/5 - $39.99/mo Turbo: 20/2 is now 100/10 - $49.99/mo Extreme: 30/5 is now 200/20 - $59.99/mo Ultimate50/75/100: 50, 75 or 100/5 is now 300/20 - $79.99-99.99/mo Google Fiber rollout in Austin has been delayed for unknown reasons, it's months overdue. If the GFiber project collapses, I predict crime warner will either kill the speed bumps or massively inflate the prices because they can.
Fuck yes, I live close to Austin so hopefully this works out. Best speed I've ever gotten with TWC was 17.8 MB/s, average is about 8 MB/s. Advertised speed is 64 Mbit/s so I'm getting what I pay for and more.
So maybe this explains why my internet went out Monday night for 3~5 hours. ^^; At first I thought it was a mistake and they'd correct it eventually since the plan I'm on was 20/2 (actual speeds were 23.5/3+). Now I'm on 100/10. :D Still keeping an eye on Google Fiber but looks like they are only focusing on areas around UT right now (I live in Cedar Park).
[QUOTE=SirOrin;45011244]So maybe this explains why my internet went out Monday night for 3~5 hours. ^^; At first I thought it was a mistake and they'd correct it eventually since the plan I'm on was 20/2 (actual speeds were 23.5/3+). Now I'm on 100/10. :D[/QUOTE] I had the same outage, but it lasted less than half an hour here. Re-provisioning modems usually only takes a few minutes, but a network wide update probably takes longer. But in order for people to take advantage of 30mbit+ speeds, they need to have a DOCSIS 3.0 modem. Many people in the lower speed grades still have DOCSIS 2.0 modems and require a modem swap.
Please speed up here in Central Florida too pless.
[QUOTE=Brt5470;45009948]Improving just enough to lower incentives to leave their service.[/QUOTE] To be honest, if my ISP upgraded to 300Mbit/s and Google rolled Gigabit in I wouldn't give half of a shit of dealing with customer service and getting a new service installed because 300Mbit/s is about as fast as half my equipment can handle. It's not too bad a thing.
[QUOTE=GiGaBiTe;45010977]Entirely depends on which tier of service you're on. The only people getting 300 mbit are the people that had the "Ultimate" plan tier before. Here's how the speed bumps work: ELP: 2/1 is now 3/1 (Everyday Low Price) - This is $14.99/mo Basic: 3/1 is now 10/1 - $29.99/mo Standard: 15/1 is now 50/5 - $39.99/mo Turbo: 20/2 is now 100/10 - $49.99/mo Extreme: 30/5 is now 200/20 - $59.99/mo Ultimate50/75/100: 50, 75 or 100/5 is now 300/20 - $79.99-99.99/mo Google Fiber rollout in Austin has been delayed for unknown reasons, it's months overdue. If the GFiber project collapses, I predict crime warner will either kill the speed bumps or massively inflate the prices because they can.[/QUOTE] your taking me too seriously, it was a joke
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