Saw this in the paper. Guess it's finally official. Looks like TWC put the smack down on U-Verse:



[Edited on November 15, 2010 at 8:35 AM. Reason : (Charlotte Observer)]

11/15/2010 8:34:21 AM

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"rates set to increase $3/month in December"

motherfuck

11/15/2010 8:41:26 AM

Ah yes, but my uverse has no contract. So, I will sit very happy at my 12mbps

11/15/2010 8:43:31 AM

god damnit, bring that shit to raleigh. uverse does every road in my neighborhood but mine. i would take 30mbps/5mbps in a heartbeat

11/15/2010 8:53:53 AM

I too would love to see these speeds in Raleigh for twc

11/15/2010 9:48:46 AM

how about during peak hours?

11/15/2010 9:59:15 AM

^^^^ at base prices twc doesnt do contracts either (unless you're a tard and manage to step into one somehow). They mostly do contracts on the intro-rate discounts or other discounts you might have negotiated with them.

[Edited on November 15, 2010 at 10:02 AM. Reason : a]

11/15/2010 10:02:09 AM

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"rates set to increase $3/month in December"

Unsurprising...mine have gone up almost $20 in a year.

11/15/2010 11:30:22 AM

AH TWC is deploying DOCSIS 3 finally. Lets see when they start offering 150MB rates.

11/15/2010 3:27:32 PM

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"Looks like TWC put the smack down on U-Verse:"

yeah but by having TWC you still have to put up with dealing with TWC

and not being able to stream ESPN3 without having cable service or at all to your XBOX360....

and that's why i am about to switch to UVerse

11/15/2010 3:43:27 PM

^Don't have a 360 and actually Time Warner Signature service in Charlotte is amazing. Probably some of the best customer support I've ran into. Everyone is located in Charlotte and I was given personal call back numbers if I ever had any trouble or further questions.

^^I'm happy with 50. While 150 would be nice I can't see myself needing to download that much information that quickly. I'm more pleased with the 5mbit upload. U-Verse only offers up to 3 as their highest offering.

[Edited on November 15, 2010 at 4:24 PM. Reason : s]

11/15/2010 4:21:10 PM

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"and not being able to stream ESPN3 without having cable service or at all to your XBOX360...."

I bought PlayOn a long time ago for Hulu and that worked very well with ESPN3 on Saturday.

11/15/2010 6:02:52 PM

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"how about during peak hours?"

Yeah, no fucking shit. My TWC crawls from about 5-8:30 most days. Youtube is unusable in the evenings.

11/15/2010 6:22:02 PM

^That's due to you tube servers not TWC. There's some videos I'm assuming that are on particular servers within youtube that just suck no matter when you try to access them. At least in my area I've got a pretty consistent 50mbit 24/7.

When I hit a slow youtube video I always double check my connection and 95% of the time it's just Youtube being slow and TWC is always fine.

11/15/2010 7:06:54 PM

Call me when they catch up to Charter communications:

down/up/cost
25/3/$55
60/5/$100

11/15/2010 7:39:28 PM

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"down/up/cost 25/3/$55 60/5/$100"

Um aside from TWC being 50/5 for $99 instead of 60/5 TWC is better.

30/5 for $55 instead of 25/3 with Charter. Which is probably what most people would get anyway.

Oh and they give you a DOCSIS 3.0 Dual Band Gigabit Router/Modem. It's actually a decent router/modem:

http://www.amazon.com/Motorola-SURFboard-Gateway-SBG6580-Wireless/dp/B0040IUI46/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1289866999&sr=8-2

I know I know they really charge you monthly for it but it's a hidden cost. It works great. Only reason I'm not using it is because I had an existing N router that has slightly better range (just passing WAN IP through the Motorola to mine).

11/15/2010 7:49:07 PM

i won't repost my multiple reasons for saying this. i'll just say it:

TIME WARNER CABLE STILL SUCKS BALLS.

11/15/2010 8:14:17 PM

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"At least in my area I've got a pretty consistent 50mbit 24/7. "

of course you do, no one has that tier service yet. give it a couple years when docsis3 speeds become the baseline and your networks are once again saturated.

11/16/2010 8:32:53 AM

^^,^

11/16/2010 9:07:20 AM

^^Not necessarily true. The one time I wasn't getting the advertised bandwidth with TWC I called and complained and they came out and put an amplifier on it and said they had been working on the hub or something. Worked fine after that. Maybe I'm in the minority here but I've never had issues with getting what they advertise that a simple phone call couldn't fix.

11/16/2010 9:14:50 AM

I didn't have internet for 6 months while paying TWC for the service. And what was their solution? Repeatedly send some moron out just to see if I had service or not. And when the service was actually running, it was at < half speed.

TWC sucks.

11/16/2010 9:29:43 AM

Well there's always exceptions. I didn't say there wasn't. I'm just saying typically I've had a very good experience with them.

11/16/2010 9:31:15 AM

They can upgrade TWC to 5000 petabytes per second. Youtube videos will still take 30 minutes to load.

11/16/2010 10:47:00 AM

^exactly. Has nothing to do with TWC. Youtube is shitty on all ISPs. I've had the same trouble loading certain youtube videos regardless of it being TWC, Comcast, AT&T, Charter, or whatever.

[Edited on November 16, 2010 at 11:07 AM. Reason : s]

11/16/2010 11:06:57 AM

google doesn't make money on youtube so they do their best to throttle the shit out of it.

11/16/2010 11:37:02 AM

that was my thought exactly. Half the time I just load a Youtube video then tab out and let it load and then tab back in despite my consistent 50mbit down connection.

11/16/2010 12:06:39 PM

Their goal is to have you open a video, buffer just enough of the movie so any ads load, and then to have you get fustrated when the buffer runs out. Then you give up and close it so they dont need to send the full video.


[Edited on November 16, 2010 at 12:51 PM. Reason : a]

11/16/2010 12:23:24 PM

It looks like those are the 12mo promotional prices. The standard rate for RR Broadband is $57.95/mo

http://www.timewarnercable.com/East/shop/pricing.html

11/17/2010 9:48:46 AM

^they told me 24 month locked rate.

11/17/2010 10:24:12 AM

doesn't pipelining solve youtube throttle? there are only one or two videos every month that I have to let buffer. 1080p excluded.

11/17/2010 1:32:42 PM

Haven't tried it. Yeah I guess there's less I have to let buffer recently.

[Edited on November 17, 2010 at 2:48 PM. Reason : s]

11/17/2010 2:40:23 PM

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"^they told me 24 month locked rate."

yeah, but will they give a 24month locked rate to an existing customer or is that for new customers only. It's such a load of crap....

me: i want to switch
them: look, we have better pricing than uverse
me: ok, i'll stay for those prices
them: those prices are only for new customers. your price is $texas.
me: FU

11/17/2010 7:59:36 PM

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"AH TWC is deploying DOCSIS 3 finally. Lets see when they start offering 150MB rates"

probably 2 years away from seeing that from most major MSO's.

they technically have the capability for 150mbps service today in many sites, but it would be stupid to saturate their pipes with this service until more QAMs are freed up for HSD, which takes time.

in general, look for the push to ipv6 and compliant hardware at ISP's to have the side effect of boosting speeds across the nation on all providers, especially in cable. a lot of major MSO's are performing CMTS chassis upgrades in 2011 for this reason alone. freeing up spectrum is the biggest roadblock, so first you will likely see a trend towards less congested pipes (so you will actually get the speeds you pay for more consistently even during peak hours), then this will be followed by bigger pipes (more DOCSIS 3.0 deployments and users enjoying 50mbps+ speeds).

11/18/2010 12:24:01 PM

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"yeah, but will they give a 24month locked rate to an existing customer or is that for new customers only. It's such a load of crap...."

Long time customers. Upgraded and they gave us the 24 month rate.

11/18/2010 12:47:59 PM

If i were time warner i would set a goal to move all customers off analog by the middle/end of 2011. Its kinda silly they've waited this long

11/18/2010 1:05:15 PM

http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/22/verizon-bringing-150-35mbps-internet-to-fios-customers-enraging/

150/35

hahah.

11/22/2010 1:19:44 PM

Let me just get in by saying: DO WANT

11/22/2010 2:06:56 PM

yeah I'd like to go around saying my upload is faster than your download.

11/22/2010 2:11:15 PM

$200? idk

11/22/2010 2:11:54 PM

^ I'd pay that for sure. We have symmetric 10Mbit and shell out like $1100/month for it

Business is expensive, yo.

11/22/2010 5:07:07 PM

yea. thats like $1800/mo. Although its more reliable than a consumer connection.

I dont trust verizon to handle shit. business class or otherwiser.

11/22/2010 5:18:08 PM