Do I really need 10 megs down? hmmm

[Kelemvor]

I'm with Time Warner and have been on a company discount plan ($35/mo or so) for as long as I can remember. Well, apparently they stopped offering that so my plan just went up $10/mo.

I've been at 7 megs down until TW recently upgraded their 7 line to a 10 line.

I'm not a gamer and the only things I generally download are TV shows and things like that which just run overnight anyway.

TWs next step down is 2 megs which would take me from the new $45/mo price down to $31/mo for a year. Then it'd go up to $36/mo which is about where I was but at the lesser speed.

Anyone else go down and realize you can't stand it and jump back up?

Other option is to find a new ISP but I don't think it will be that cheap. Hmmm.

 

[Wanescotting]

I upgraded to 30/5 an hour ago...lovin it!

 

[Ichigo]

What's your data cap? No point paying for speed if you can't use it.

 

[Kelemvor]

I don't think there is a cap. But I sure have never hit it if there is.

 

[DominionSeraph]

I've got ~8Mb (actual), and while it's nice for patches and drivers, for my main bandwidth usage I'm mostly limited by upload. I could live with slower downloads since I'm stuck seeding at 100KB/s.

 

[xSauronx]

i could live with 5, but have 10. its nice on the rare times i want to download something large, but that isnt very often

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I'm with Time Warner and have been on a company discount plan ($35/mo or so) for as long as I can remember. Well, apparently they stopped offering that so my plan just went up $10/mo.

I've been at 7 megs down until TW recently upgraded their 7 line to a 10 line.

I'm not a gamer and the only things I generally download are TV shows and things like that which just run overnight anyway.

TWs next step down is 2 megs which would take me from the new $45/mo price down to $31/mo for a year. Then it'd go up to $36/mo which is about where I was but at the lesser speed.

Anyone else go down and realize you can't stand it and jump back up?

Other option is to find a new ISP but I don't think it will be that cheap. Hmmm.

I'm on Brighthouse (which uses Time Warner Road Runner) and still at 7 down/whatever up. I keep getting flyers to upgrade to 40 down/? up but it costs another $30 a month and the boss (aka the wife) says no. I need a second IP much more than I need more speed.

 

[Wanescotting]

I'm on Brighthouse (which uses Time Warner Road Runner) and still at 7 down/whatever up. I keep getting flyers to upgrade to 40 down/? up but it costs another $30 a month and the boss (aka the wife) says no.

GF doesn't know yet...shhh

 

[boomhower]

No cap with TW. It really depends on what you do. If you download large files, then yeah. If you just surf, then no. I have RR Turbo and really like it.

 

[lxskllr]

I don't think I'd take an 8mb drop for only $10 a month less. I could do fine on 2mb, but I think that's worth around $25 a month, not $36.

 

[rcpratt]

I would need it, but it depends how you use it?

I'm on Brighthouse here since I moved to the other side of town and Comcast doesn't service this spot. I don't know who Brighthouse runs through here, but it's godawful. The bandwidth is fine and as advertised, but it cuts out randomly and the ping is awful.

Sorry, had to rant.

 

[Kirby]

I went from 25, to 10, to less than 1. It fucking sucks.

 

[PingSpike]

They're always upgrading the download speeds on cable, but for me its more or less been a "who fucking cares" scenario since they got 5mb or so. I'd always prefer more upload speed or the removal of a cap. 6 to 12mb/s down doesn't really change anything. There are times I suppose I can make use of the extra down bandwidth but they're rare and I'd prefer to be able to do run game servers with more people.

Right now I get 15 down/1 up and at least for the time being there are no caps. I think I would trade 7mb/s down for another 1 up but of course that isn't an available option.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

I would need it, but it depends how you use it?

I'm on Brighthouse here since I moved to the other side of town and Comcast doesn't service this spot. I don't know who Brighthouse runs through here, but it's godawful. The bandwidth is fine and as advertised, but it cuts out randomly and the ping is awful.

Sorry, had to rant.

I think Brighthouse uses Roadrunner everywhere.

One thing I miss about Comcast was all the free speed bumps I got. I am not sure if they do that now or not, but I got 3 or 4 free speed bumps over the course of the 10 years I had them. Brighthouse doesn't seem to do that.

 

[JujuFish]

My experience with Time Warner (at least in western NY) has been that they're more than happy to offer you deals to stay if you threaten to switch because of a price hike.

 

[Riverhound777]

I hate how they do the tiers. A lot of people would be fine with 5, but they will never offer that. It's 1-2mb or 10+ for way more. They know 1-2 is barely enough and that most people will upgrade and hardly use it. Think I pay $50/m for 12mb.

If another company in my area offered 5mb for like $30/month they'd have my money.

Hmmm actually looking my Cox in my area it looks like they offer 3mb for $35/m. Not ideal but not as bad as I thought. Might be worth it.

 

[DesiPower]

I have 5mbps and I probably never use that much, I had 3, they bumped me up to 5, didn't notice any difference. I do not do much of online gaming so I guess I don't see any requirement, the only thing that can potentially use such bandwidth is torrents but then again its limited to # of seeders.

 

[WhoBeDaPlaya]

50mbps down here with Mediacom.

 

[Turin39789]

Hmm. Our Cable starts at 10/1 and goes up to 50/5. Intro pricing on the 10/1 is $35/mo apparently. We were at 45/mo for 10/1 but it jumped to 56 recently. Thread reminded me to call in and they could offer me $45 /mo again for a one time fee of $25. Hmm.. Oh wait, we can take half off and only charge $12.50.

Prompted me to look into Uverse, which apparently is finally available in area. Could get 12 down for $30/mo for a year, but $48 after and a $100 install.

Took the cable discount for now.

 

[RockinZ28]

Wouldn't be able to. Remember in 2004 I had 6mbps, then moved and the highest was 2mbps. It sucked.

Couldn't imagine only having 2mbps these days. I'm considering trying to make another deal with FioS to get on a contract and package for lower price, might drop my speed in half down to 15mbps but think I'll be ok with that.

 

[epidemis]

I'm with Time Warner and have been on a company discount plan ($35/mo or so) for as long as I can remember. Well, apparently they stopped offering that so my plan just went up $10/mo.

I've been at 7 megs down until TW recently upgraded their 7 line to a 10 line.

I'm not a gamer and the only things I generally download are TV shows and things like that which just run overnight anyway.

TWs next step down is 2 megs which would take me from the new $45/mo price down to $31/mo for a year. Then it'd go up to $36/mo which is about where I was but at the lesser speed.

Anyone else go down and realize you can't stand it and jump back up?

Other option is to find a new ISP but I don't think it will be that cheap. Hmmm.

Depends on how tight your economy are. If it's NP I wouldn't bother to save 9 dollars

 

[Vette73]

I went from 15 to 3 (Fios to Cox) and I only notice it when downloading large files... aarrrggggg.

Other than that no. But I also don't stream movies and have several people using it at the same time. I saved abotu $20 a month and don;t have to deal with verzions billing issues anymore.
Also whats the upload rate?

 

[makken]

while you may not need 10, I would say 2 is too slow, especially for sort of decent streaming video (netflix et al)

 

[xanis]

while you may not need 10, I would say 2 is too slow, especially for sort of decent streaming video (netflix et al)

I was going to say something like this. I went from Comcast -> DSL -> FiOS and I won't be going back to DSL unless my financial situation forces me to. For you, I'd say something around 5-7 would be the sweet spot for you.

 

[Raduque]

I have 24/3.

I need to upgrade, Grande now offers 65/5.