Time Warner Cable Speed Bump

[stubeeef]

I just found this on the Journal-Sentinels webpage:

Time Warner Cable announced Monday that it's boosting the speed of its Road Runner Internet service this week.

The company will increase the maximum speed of its basic high-speed Internet access from 3 megabits per second to 5 megabits per second, and
subscribers of the premium package will see a surge from the current top speed of 6 megabits per second to 8 megabits per second.

The speed increases will be phased in over the week and will not require home visits from Time Warner technicians, according to a Time
Warner spokeswoman.

The company also announced the availability of new video mail service, which Road Runner subscribers can access through the Road
Runner Web site.

do you live in W-S?

 

[Makosuke]

Interesting to see cable speeds finally creeping up a bit. Up in far northern California, Cox (the only option other than SBC DSL) recently bumped everybody from 2 or 3Mbit to 4 or 5 (there're two plans). SBC is still a weak 3Mbit.

But it's so frustrating to visit my in-laws' home in Japan. They live way out in the middle of nowhere, and their local DSL company (a Yahoo! partner just like SBC, actually) was offering plans with up to 50Mbit for about what I'd pay for 5!

And if for some reason 50Mbit isn't enough for you, urban areas could get a direct fiber connection at 100Mbit at relatively reasonable cost. I'm sure real-world performance isn't that good, but still, makes upgrades to 5 sound pretty sorry.

I wonder what the infrastructure/business rip-off difference is that makes it like this is?

 

[Octopod]

Awesome news.
I'm in Green Bay and I use RoadRunner.
My speed results:
msn-2453.4kbps
bandwidth-2.6mbps

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

I'm in Appleton, I got a jump from 2500 Kbps to 3500 Kbps

 

[Octopod]

Hey,do you happen to know if the Apple dealer inside Computer World in Appleton got shuffles in yet? I called a week ago and he said they could come in at any time over the next 2 weeks. They are probably sick of hearing from me.

 

[AliensAreFuzzy]

Hey,do you happen to know if the Apple dealer inside Computer World in Appleton got shuffles in yet? I called a week ago and he said they could come in at any time over the next 2 weeks. They are probably sick of hearing from me.

I went in on Saturday and they didn't have any.