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TH55

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I currently have Time Warner Cable TV and Internet and want to cut the cable. Looking for the best internet for the money. I didn't realize there were different technologies used. Which is better, and how much do I need? All I really do is browse the web on my phone using wifi. The only time I use my desktop is to download movies and music. I believe I currently have about 15 megs. I also occasionally game on Xbox live. Thanks!
 
depends on area. Uverse is rolling out gigapower to combat Google fiber but its limited. DSL (Uverse) is dedicated to the box, cable you share with others but have a faster top speed usually. I have uverse and it suits me fine. We prefer the TV service.
 
I've had both. TWC is pretty reliable. AT&T U-verse 48Mbps tier internet was also great. I didn't care for the fact that AT&T makes it difficult to use a third party router with their modem/router dual unit. TWC doesn't give a crap about this or make it a hindrance to do so.
 
depends on area. Uverse is rolling out gigapower to combat Google fiber but its limited. DSL (Uverse) is dedicated to the box, cable you share with others but have a faster top speed usually. I have uverse and it suits me fine. We prefer the TV service.
Is speed based entirely on mb?
 
I live in NC and had time warner for about 2 months. Had to drop them because my cable and Internet kept going out. After about 8 unsuccessful service calls and overall incompetence I ditched them for U-Verse. Overall, U-Verse is great but TWC had much faster internet when it did actually work. YMMV
 
U-Verse was great when I had it at my old place. We're supposed to be getting it soon where I live now, and I'm excited about dropping cable.
 
I've had both. TWC is pretty reliable. AT&T U-verse 48Mbps tier internet was also great. I didn't care for the fact that AT&T makes it difficult to use a third party router with their modem/router dual unit. TWC doesn't give a crap about this or make it a hindrance to do so.

The newer gateways can be more easily configured to work with a third party router. I have an Airport Extreme connected to mine. It's basically created two separate networks - the AT&T gateway handles traffic for my set top boxes, and the AP handles everything else.
 
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