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The sad thing is, those speedtest numbers are inflated. From my understanding the packets of info to those sites are prioritized so your speed appears fast. I constatly get 870 Kb/s which for how much I pay doesn't seem like a good value.
Does anyone know/if the rumored Docsis 2.0 thats suppose to come online will affect our speeds?
And joy to Time Warner for not allowing internet only customers to have access to espn3.com... like every other ISP in the country does.
Does anyone know/if the rumored Docsis 2.0 thats suppose to come online will affect our speeds?
And joy to Time Warner for not allowing internet only customers to have access to espn3.com... like every other ISP in the country does.
Actually it's Docsis 3.0 (not 2.0) and the plans that offer faster speeds such as 50 mbps down and 5 mbps up are going to be expensive - somewhere in the neighborhood of $100/month. Obviously some people will be willing to pay for that but I don't understand how 3.0 is going to improve the reliability of the service, when you're still sharing the wire with everyone on your street.
my download speed increases by almost 50% if I use the cable connection compared to my wireless router
Yep. I dumped wireless for a wired router, and the speed is better.
Well worthwhile.
Pulling 600 feet of cable through the house was an endeavor, though.
And joy to Time Warner for not allowing internet only customers to have access to espn3.com... like every other ISP in the country does.
Not to hijack the thread, but it was my understanding that the new deal they reached with Disney/ESPN would give us espn3.com.
Back to the thread, I went on a computer forum about a month or two ago because I noticed how slow my internet seemed. Then I looked at my bill and saw I was getting the basic cable/internet base bundle (plus add-ons, etc), but I'm assuming the "basic" also goes for the internet.
I'm thinking about just switching back to DirecTV and going to the mid-level of internet with TWC.
Where are you all checking your speeds. I want to try the same site so I can do a comparison.
In five years I have never really had a complaint with TWC but this slow interent is really starting to bug me.
I think something has been going on in the past couple of weeks. I noticed a drop in speed and intermittent problems that didn't used to happen before. I'm not sure what the deal is but would love to find out.
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