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http://story.news.yahoo.com/ne...e/time_warner_internet

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Time Warner Raising Broadband Speeds

Tue Dec 14, 6:06 PM ET

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NEW YORK - As part of an ongoing race in the cable industry, Time Warner Cable is raising the speed of its broadband Internet offerings to 5 and 8 million bits per second without increasing prices.

The higher speeds are available in New York City starting Tuesday and will roll out to the rest of the country in January.

Road Runner, the company's broadband service, has been running on speeds of 3 mbps and its premium service on 6 mbps ? generally faster than the competing DSL, or digital subscriber line, technology but a tad slower than some cable operators' offerings.

Cablevision Systems Corp., Cox Communications Inc., Comcast Corp. and RCN Corp. all raised speeds earlier this year ? without price rises ? to between 4 mbps and 7 mbps.

Time Warner hadn't increased its speeds since September 2003.

In order to woo new users and prevent current ones from defecting to DSL, cable operators have been busy trying to outdo competitors.

Revenue from broadband and other new services such as video-on-demand and high-definition TV are becoming more important as revenue growth from cable TV slows.

Broadband Internet business in particular has been highly coveted since it yields better profit margins.

Despite the competition, cable operators generally have been resistant to slash prices, preferring instead to raise speeds or offer additional services ? free music or video mail, for instance.

Time Warner Cable, the second-largest cable company in the country, has 10.9 million customers in all. Its broadband customers number 3.7 million.

 
before they capped the service in columbus ohio, used to get 750KB/s dl'ds easy

however, i'm not complaining with 350KB/s either.
 
i think they were going to do NYC first, it has been a month since the date they claimed the upgrades would be applied... now they claim, end of January.
 
Originally posted by: Jigga
yeah i haven't seen any improvement...broadbandreports still shows my connection as roughly 2.5mbps
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Powercycle your modem?

Did mine a few days ago...but I live in Michigan and have Brighthouse.

But it went promptly up to 5. Did not change automatically.
 
Originally posted by: abc
i think they were going to do NYC first, it has been a month since the date they claimed the upgrades would be applied... now they claim, end of January.
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I'm in Northern NJ with RR and I've definitely seen a huge bump in speed. My max DL speed used to be around 350K/s but now its like 800K/s. I've gotten sustained levels of 1800K/s once in a while though I'm not sure why it happens.
 
Hmm I powercycled it just a few days ago when TWC came to replace my digital settop box.

edit: Hmm, interestingly enough I tried our local Roadrunner's speed test and it came out to 605 KB/sec download rate, or roughly 4.8mbps. But broadbandreports tests are only showing between 2.6 and 3.1 mbps.
 
I think it happened on tuesday.....but of course they might not have done your area yet....if you can stand the interface and some of the members, dslreports.com forums should have some good info.
 
When you have 5 domains to manage and 5 different sets of stuff to upload to 5 different FTPs, you want 5MB upload. I can live with 1.5MB D/L, but the 256kb U/L is killing me.
 
Originally posted by: Baked
When you have 5 domains to manage and 5 different sets of stuff to upload to 5 different FTPs, you want 5MB upload. I can live with 1.5MB D/L, but the 256kb U/L is killing me.
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same here, i wish they would start updating upload speeds, dl speeds are already fast enough.
 
I really don't get this. The DSL companies can't keep up with the speeds the cable companies are offering, so why do they keep shooting themselves in the foot by upping their caps(and by extension, their bandwidth costs)? I mean, they have a fricken monopoly, why aren't they offering 2Mb/sec at 50 a month, abusing internet customers like they do TV customers?
 
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