Charter makes a bid to buy Time Warner Cable for $78.7B ($56B without debt) - Polidicks

I would like to be proven wrong if you just provide the exact model number.

Holy shit no, I got a Free Router from TWC that boosts my upload to 20 Mbps and down to roughly 220 Mbps. The prices I'm seeing here are part of some twisted man's plan to really piss people off.

[QUOTE=ghost901;47813119]I would like to be proven wrong if you just provide the exact model number.[/QUOTE] I don't know what the goddamn model number is dude. I just proved you wrong. I posted a picture of our modem with a fucking coaxial input. All of those ethernet cables are outputs. Two computers, a printer, and the router.

[QUOTE=Paramud;47811625][img]http://u.cubeupload.com/Paramud/3Sw3Fd.png[/img] At this point I'd take a couple of tin cans connected with fucking strings if they were uncapped.[/QUOTE] 12mbps. 129.99$ a month. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH HAHAH OMG HAHAHHA STOP PLZ HAHAHHA OMG YOURE KILLING ME! HAHAHAHAHA!!!! 25 GB PER MONTH! I CAN USE THAT IN AN HOUR! HAHAHA! Ahhhhh damn... that's the funnies shit i've seen in a while. Thanks for the laugh bro. I get 100mbps and unlimited download per month for that much right now. Is that picture for real? Also question does speedtest show megabits or megabytes?

[QUOTE=ghost901;47812492]I know Comcast is terrible but here in Houston they offered me 150/10 for $72. These companies are adding caps because they're scared of loosing cable TV subscribers.[/QUOTE] Because no one likes paying $100 for shit TV. SlingTV is so nice.

[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47813156]I don't know what the goddamn model number is dude. I just proved you wrong. I posted a picture of our modem with a fucking coaxial input. All of those ethernet cables are outputs. Two computers, a printer, and the router.[/QUOTE]None of the At&t Arris modems are are fed by coax. It's either fed by VDSL2 or by an ONT through a WAN gigabit port. I can guarantee if you unplug that coax you'll still have internet access. The coax cable in the back of the modem feeds your TV receivers.

[QUOTE=ghost901;47813358]None of the At&t Arris modems are are fed by coax. It's either fed by VDSL2 or by an ONT through a WAN gigabit port. I can guarantee if you unplug that coax you'll still have internet access. The coax cable in the back of the modem feeds your TV receivers.[/QUOTE] Unplugged it. We lost internet Dad got mad Thanks

I wonder if anyone's started to float "too big to fail" in the FCC ? Because if either twc or Comcast or the third guy failed, that's half the US's cable industry right there

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[QUOTE=Steve Harvey;47812757]Wow. In what world is this acceptable?[/QUOTE] Southern California.

[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47813466]Unplugged it. We lost internet Dad got mad Thanks[/QUOTE] I still stand by what I said. AT&T does not provide coaxial DOCSIS internet services. None of their devices are equipped for that That picture you posted matches the description of the Arris NVG589. That coax port is HomePNA. The only reason I can think of someone loosing internet connection by disconnecting the coaxial cable is if there's a HPNA coax ethernet adapter somewhere in your networking. Apart from the 4 cat5 cables you have connected there, it looks like you also have 2 RJ14/RJ11 cables connected. All of AT&T's gateways have one VOIP port that supports 2 lines. That leaves the other port to being the DSL broadband port.

So the US is actually modern? Because our ISP supplied modem / router combo does have a coax input. [T]http://content.hwigroup.net/images/products_xl/207190/3/technicolor-tc7200u.jpg[/T]

I don't even know what the TWC provided router or modem looks like. They wanted me to pay monthly for them :v:

That looks like a typical DOCSIS gateway/eMTA. Most cable ISPs here will provide one for a monthly fee. Most of them are garbage though.

Kill the cable companies. It's our only hope.

How much do americans pay for their internet right now? We have 500/500 for 60 eur a month at home, no throtelling, no blocked ports, free usenet, no bs.

[QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47812556]...TO 5mbps or BY 5mbps? [editline]26th May 2015[/editline] Since when? In the 23 years I've had internet in 15 cities in 5 states I've never, ever had a cap. And just because it's "becoming" a thing doesn't make it acceptable. How the fuck can you put a cap on something that is infinite? It's not a resource. That's like a florist telling customers they can only sniff the flowers they buy once a day, or the florist will come and take the flowers away from the customer unless they pay an additional fee to sniff the flowers more.[/QUOTE] You've probably had caps before, you just haven't noticed them. Few ISPs actually enforce their caps, Charter included. Throttling can happen on the residential service, but it's pretty rare from what I can find. Business is completely unlimited. Anyway, caps exist right now because Internet video threatens cable, and most ISPs make most of their money off cable. They want to maintain cable priority. It'll change eventually, probably not to a better model, but away from caps. [editline]27th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=Snoberry Tea;47812671]AT&T does not. I've had them for years, no cap. Brighthouse doesn't. Verizon doesn't. None of the Bell companies I had back in the 90's did it. Century Link doesn't. Cellular carriers cap data because it's a completely different ball game than residential data. It actually matters on mobile networks because of how the infrastructure is set up and runs. It matters much, much, much less on residential and commercial networks. I haven't encountered a cap in 23 years of residential internet. We have AT&T now and they DO NOT have a cap. I'll believe that comcast does because they're the fucking devil.[/QUOTE] AT&T officially does have a 150GB-1TB cap on all U-Verse plans, depending on which one you buy, and DSL is capped at 150GB. See here: [URL]http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB409045[/URL] [editline]27th May 2015[/editline] [QUOTE=ghost901;47814337]I still stand by what I said. AT&T does not provide coaxial DOCSIS internet services. None of their devices are equipped for that That picture you posted matches the description of the Arris NVG589. That coax port is HomePNA. The only reason I can think of someone loosing internet connection by disconnecting the coaxial cable is if there's a HPNA coax ethernet adapter somewhere in your networking. Apart from the 4 cat5 cables you have connected there, it looks like you also have 2 RJ14/RJ11 cables connected. All of AT&T's gateways have one VOIP port that supports 2 lines. That leaves the other port to being the DSL broadband port.[/QUOTE] Nope, my grandmother uses U-Verse, and their networking is coax straight from the cable tube in her front yard to the coax modem indoors. I was there when they set it up, so I watched the guy do it. They only got one box, and that was the modem.

[QUOTE=woolio1;47816128]You've probably had caps before, you just haven't noticed them. Few ISPs actually enforce their caps, Charter included. Throttling can happen on the residential service, but it's pretty rare from what I can find. Business is completely unlimited. Anyway, caps exist right now because Internet video threatens cable, and most ISPs make most of their money off cable. They want to maintain cable priority. It'll change eventually, probably not to a better model, but away from caps. [editline]27th May 2015[/editline] AT&T officially does have a 150GB-1TB cap on all U-Verse plans, depending on which one you buy, and DSL is capped at 150GB. See here: [URL]http://www.att.com/esupport/article.jsp?sid=KB409045[/URL] [editline]27th May 2015[/editline] Nope, my grandmother uses U-Verse, and their networking is coax straight from the cable tube in her front yard to the coax modem indoors. I was there when they set it up, so I watched the guy do it. They only got one box, and that was the modem.[/QUOTE] In certain situations a Balun is installed at the pole and then a coax dropped to the NID. It is still carrying DSL signals. [url]http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21846510-att-u-verse-physical-connection[/url]

[QUOTE=ghost901;47816708]In certain situations a Balun is installed at the pole and then a coax dropped to the NID. It is still carrying DSL signals. [url]http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r21846510-att-u-verse-physical-connection[/url][/QUOTE] Right, but it uses Coax, which you said it didn't. If you could just admit you overstated earlier, we would all be able to move on.

Nope because from the NID to the modem is still twisted pair copper. Don't confuse the coax port on the modem for broadband feed. If you read the posts on the link I posted you would of known.

[QUOTE=Mega1mpact;47814887]How much do americans pay for their internet right now? We have 500/500 for 60 eur a month at home, no throtelling, no blocked ports, free usenet, no bs.[/QUOTE] Here in Arizona I pay about $100 a month for 50 meg, but it's more like 2 up and 2 down in actuality.

[QUOTE=ghost901;47816904]Nope because from the NID to the modem is still twisted pair copper. Don't confuse the coax port on the modem for broadband feed. If you read the posts on the link I posted you would of known.[/QUOTE] So if there's only one data cable that goes into the back of the modem, which is the coax, and only one cable that leaves, which is the ethernet to the router, if the coax isn't carrying Internet, what is? If you can answer that in a way that's not skirting the question like you've been doing, we can end this here.

[QUOTE=woolio1;47818441]So if there's only one data cable that goes into the back of the modem, which is the coax, and only one cable that leaves, which is the ethernet to the router, if the coax isn't carrying Internet, what is? If you can answer that in a way that's not skirting the question like you've been doing, we can end this here.[/QUOTE] Point me to a single at&t u-verse modem/gateway that can take coaxial in and is not HPNA out. If you can we'll end it and I'll admit that I'm stupid

[QUOTE=ghost901;47819211]Point me to a single at&t u-verse modem/gateway that can take coaxial in and is not HPNA out. If you can we'll end it and I'll admit that I'm stupid[/QUOTE] 3800HGV-B, according to this guy. The coax port is dual-purpose. [URL]http://robertlathanh.com/2011/01/att-u-verse-for-the-curious-consumer-the-residential-gateway-and-wiring-options/[/URL] Furthermore, it's mentioned in the manual here. [URL]http://setuprouter.com/router/2wire/3800hgv-b/manual-1319.pdf[/URL] So... I guess you're stupid, then? Any amount of Googling would have saved you this trouble. Was it worth the argument?

[QUOTE=Paramud;47811625][img]http://u.cubeupload.com/Paramud/3Sw3Fd.png[/img] At this point I'd take a couple of tin cans connected with fucking strings if they were uncapped.[/QUOTE] [img]http://i.imgur.com/yEofYRC.png[/img] check this out :/

But that's a phone plan. Still terrible, but not really comparable.

you guys are complaining about no choice and getting nearly double speeds available in Australia in areas [I]with[/I] competition. My old house, I got 30/1 500gb for $80, new house is more money per month for 5/1 adsl. Old house is 20 mins from my new house, and I'm still only 40 minutes from Brisbane CBD. Old house was also 40 minutes to the cbd but that was because of shitty road and highway planning, it was geographically much closer.

[QUOTE=mokkan;47821961]you guys are complaining about no choice and getting nearly double speeds available in Australia in areas [I]with[/I] competition. My old house, I got 30/1 500gb for $80, new house is more money per month for 5/1 adsl. Old house is 20 mins from my new house, and I'm still only 40 minutes from Brisbane CBD. Old house was also 40 minutes to the cbd but that was because of shitty road and highway planning, it was geographically much closer.[/QUOTE] Yes... But you're in Australia. Things are just generally shittier there than ANYWHERE ELSE IN THE WORLD. I mean, dear God, if it's not the wildlife, it's the plants, or the government, or the land itself. Everything's trying to kill you or make your life miserable. You should be used to this by now.

[QUOTE=mokkan;47821961]you guys are complaining about no choice and getting nearly double speeds available in Australia in areas [I]with[/I] competition. My old house, I got 30/1 500gb for $80, new house is more money per month for 5/1 adsl. Old house is 20 mins from my new house, and I'm still only 40 minutes from Brisbane CBD. Old house was also 40 minutes to the cbd but that was because of shitty road and highway planning, it was geographically much closer.[/QUOTE] We have tons of competition over here, it's awesome. Speeds keep going up, huge fiber investments, better prices, etc. It still disturbs me that Canada and the US have is this bad.