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Old 02-05-2015, 10:16 PM
 
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I've got the 300 down through TWC for $65/month.
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Old 02-07-2015, 02:33 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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Time Warner Internet and Cable TV package $85.47 per month.
I went out and bought my own modem for $43 including shipping when I saw that TW was charging me $6 per month for their modem. I also got rid of Turbo for their slightly slower high speed Internet. It works fine even with Ooma phone service. BTW if you want to save on landline phone service get Ooma. I pay only $4.06 per month. I save about $300 per year or $3,000 every 10 years!
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Old 03-31-2015, 02:09 AM
 
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So, I've decided the wife and I are going to cut the cable and just get internet here in LA. Is TWC still the best option for cable internet? I'm in 90046

Also, I've never done the whole internet TV/Roku/Netflix thing. What is the speed you guys suggest for this application? I figure the most intense service needs would be that and VERY occasional PS4 online gaming (I'm not a fan of the whole online gaming thing.)

Looks like this is the most current TWC "special" pricing...

3/1 = $15
10/1 = $30
50/5 = $35
100/10 = $45
200/20 = $55
300/20 = $65

Thanks all.....
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Old 03-31-2015, 06:41 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles
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So, I've decided the wife and I are going to cut the cable and just get internet here in LA. Is TWC still the best option for cable internet? I'm in 90046

Also, I've never done the whole internet TV/Roku/Netflix thing. What is the speed you guys suggest for this application? I figure the most intense service needs would be that and VERY occasional PS4 online gaming (I'm not a fan of the whole online gaming thing.)

Looks like this is the most current TWC "special" pricing...

3/1 = $15
10/1 = $30
50/5 = $35
100/10 = $45
200/20 = $55
300/20 = $65

Thanks all.....
I am not in 90046 but Time Warner sucks but they have a monopoly in many areas. I thought you were in Woodland Hills or West Hills?
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Old 03-31-2015, 02:29 PM
 
Location: Kaliforneea
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whether or not you get TWC or Charter or whoever for cable, you can't pick and choose. It depends on which fiefdom you were born into. Legal monopoly within a geographic zone.

TWC is insane. In addition to charging the month IN ADVANCE for service you have not yet received, and optionally renting the modem from them for ~$8 a month, they will ALSO try to charge you ~$11 for the wifi network INSIDE YOUR HOUSE if you don't call them on it.

I get 46 down/5.6 up according to ookla. You have to buy the super deluxe DOCSIS 3.0 $180-$280 modem/gateway to get the 300/20 speeds. Only Bittorrent can work that modem/gw like John Henry the Slave. Even the mighty Youtube will only let you suck at 3MB/sec.
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Old 03-31-2015, 03:38 PM
 
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whether or not you get TWC or Charter or whoever for cable, you can't pick and choose. It depends on which fiefdom you were born into. Legal monopoly within a geographic zone.
True. 90046 is serviced by TWC or ATT Uverse.

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TWC is insane. In addition to charging the month IN ADVANCE for service you have not yet received, and optionally renting the modem from them for ~$8 a month, they will ALSO try to charge you ~$11 for the wifi network INSIDE YOUR HOUSE if you don't call them on it.
Simple solution: Don't rent a wifi router from them.

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I get 46 down/5.6 up according to ookla. You have to buy the super deluxe DOCSIS 3.0 $180-$280 modem/gateway to get the 300/20 speeds. Only Bittorrent can work that modem/gw like John Henry the Slave. Even the mighty Youtube will only let you suck at 3MB/sec.
Wrong, it is $130 on Amazon. If you have a lot of people in your household, if you stream Netflix/Hulu/HBO GO (like the thread reviver wants to), if you play online video games, if you have multiple connected devices (tablets, phones, computers, gaming consoles, Roku, Apple TV) you'll benefit from a faster connection. These services consume much more data than 3MB/sec down.

Tone down the hyperbole.
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Old 03-31-2015, 05:37 PM
 
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Oh, I guess it could be useful info that I have my own modem and router. Decent stuff (Motorola and Netgear dualband...)
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Old 03-31-2015, 05:38 PM
 
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Streetlegal, I'm at Edinburgh and Melrose.
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Old 03-31-2015, 05:50 PM
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Best deal. It's not a gimmick as they have been offering it for years.
Uh, dial-up in 2015?
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Old 03-31-2015, 10:20 PM
 
Location: Kaliforneea
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Tone down the hyperbole.
Better wait a minute. Better hold the phone. Better mind your manners. Better change your tone.
I'm a Mean Green Mother, from outer space and I'm bad.


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Simple solution: Don't rent a wifi router from them.
cynsis, I don't you understand how dirty Time Warner Cable is. I PURCHASED my own cable equipment, informed them and registered my MAC addr with them and STILL billed me for my home wifi network. The FCC and CPUC gets an earfull about TWC, because that's democracy. If we didn't have federal & state regulators and the regular class action lawsuit in order to keep them honest, it would be like the French Revolution all over again.

Time Warner Cable's CEO made $16M in 2011, $17M in 2012, $14M in 2013, then contracted cancer and died in 2014:

Time Warner Cable CEO Glenn Britt Made $17.4 Million in 2012 - Hollywood Reporter
Glenn Britt Dead: Former Time Warner Cable CEO Dies at 65 of Cancer - Hollywood Reporter

do you think his fortune was natural? The $45B TWC-Comcast merger was begun by him, and the debate rages still today.


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Wrong, it is $130 on Amazon.
great price. your google-fu is strong. Netgear C6300 is $180-$280 according to google shopping, so I am not wrong.


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These services consume much more data than 3MB/sec down.
3MB/sec = 24 mbps, my actual observed downstream maximum from a single source.
5.5MB/sec = 45 mbps, my actual observed aggregate downstream max from multiple simulanteous sources. 98% of users are unable to saturate their connection, and the single source metric remains the more useful number. Has the world been made more clear for you, now?
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