Time Warner Broadband Extreme, Read This and Weep CPians
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So I've got Time Warner's "Broadband Extreme" at home as of last night with the new DOCSYS 3.0 modem/gateway/wireless router... I was pushing 35 Mb/s down and 5 Mb/s up late last night (the $20 extra per month promises 30 down and 1 up)! :-D But I know some folks in here are probably gonna make me weep now with tales of their Gigabit home network connections... :(
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
So far TW seem okay. I only went with basic cable but it often exceeds that so can't complain. I have to say, however, that the TV is awful (not just the programs, but the channel selector menus are crap compared to Sky). Thinking of giving back the DVR/HD, etc and just watching what I want on line.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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So far TW seem okay. I only went with basic cable but it often exceeds that so can't complain. I have to say, however, that the TV is awful (not just the programs, but the channel selector menus are crap compared to Sky). Thinking of giving back the DVR/HD, etc and just watching what I want on line.
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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Miss it: suppose I could get a sling box but can't see the point. Hey, went to a British 'pub' on the weekend. You would have scoffed: the full English was okay but everything else was pure mockney. :-)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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So I've got Time Warner's "Broadband Extreme" at home as of last night with the new DOCSYS 3.0 modem/gateway/wireless router... I was pushing 35 Mb/s down and 5 Mb/s up late last night (the $20 extra per month promises 30 down and 1 up)! :-D But I know some folks in here are probably gonna make me weep now with tales of their Gigabit home network connections... :(
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
You know that Time Warner is going to make you pay for exceeding your monthly data limit, right[^]?
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
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Miss it: suppose I could get a sling box but can't see the point. Hey, went to a British 'pub' on the weekend. You would have scoffed: the full English was okay but everything else was pure mockney. :-)
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
Was it a stylised stereotypical 'genuine English tavern' type place? I went to couple like that in LA and thought they were awful. Although I did find an Irish bar that was pretty good.
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Was it a stylised stereotypical 'genuine English tavern' type place? I went to couple like that in LA and thought they were awful. Although I did find an Irish bar that was pretty good.
------------------------------------ I will never again mention that I was the poster of the One Millionth Lounge Post, nor that it was complete drivel. Dalek Dave CCC Link[^] Trolls[^]
Molly Malone's on Fairfax? I went to the Kings Head in Santa Monica. Won't be going there again: they have an 'English' shop with a bottle of Marmite at about $12!!!
"If you think it's expensive to hire a professional to do the job, wait until you hire an amateur." Red Adair. nils illegitimus carborundum me, me, me
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So I've got Time Warner's "Broadband Extreme" at home as of last night with the new DOCSYS 3.0 modem/gateway/wireless router... I was pushing 35 Mb/s down and 5 Mb/s up late last night (the $20 extra per month promises 30 down and 1 up)! :-D But I know some folks in here are probably gonna make me weep now with tales of their Gigabit home network connections... :(
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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So I've got Time Warner's "Broadband Extreme" at home as of last night with the new DOCSYS 3.0 modem/gateway/wireless router... I was pushing 35 Mb/s down and 5 Mb/s up late last night (the $20 extra per month promises 30 down and 1 up)! :-D But I know some folks in here are probably gonna make me weep now with tales of their Gigabit home network connections... :(
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
I'm suppose to be getting 15Mb/s down from TW but usually tests out at < 2Mb/s :( I keep calling them out and they usually find the cable can across the street filled with water (from the neighbors watering their plants) :doh:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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You know that Time Warner is going to make you pay for exceeding your monthly data limit, right[^]?
m.bergman
For Bruce Schneier, quanta only have one state : afraid.
To succeed in the world it is not enough to be stupid, you must also be well-mannered. -- Voltaire
Honesty is the best policy, but insanity is a better defense. -- Steve Landesberg
not quite yet [^] but with most of the major software players asking us to move everything to the Cloud, we will be not only be paying to keep it there with monthly storage fees (disguise at 'subscriptions'), but also pay to stream it, store it and retrieve it [^] :sigh: as well as let google index it and governments access it (without our knowledge) :thumbsdown:
Steve _________________ I C(++) therefore I am
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So I've got Time Warner's "Broadband Extreme" at home as of last night with the new DOCSYS 3.0 modem/gateway/wireless router... I was pushing 35 Mb/s down and 5 Mb/s up late last night (the $20 extra per month promises 30 down and 1 up)! :-D But I know some folks in here are probably gonna make me weep now with tales of their Gigabit home network connections... :(
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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So how much do you pay for that crap? For €65/month I get: 120Mb/s down, only 10Mb/s up though. No datalimit.
harold aptroot wrote:
For €65/month I get: 120Mb/s down, only 10Mb/s up though. No datalimit.
That's a sweet deal there. I haven't separated the bill in my mind between TV (digital cable, no pay stations except free Skinemax)and Internet in awhile; the whole shebang is just over $170 now with the extra $20 for "Broadband Extreme" so I'm guessing it's probably about at least $90 or so for the Internet alone now. Update: Pushed 40 down/4 up last night over multiple speedtest.net trips, but only using Opera... Chrome consistently ran speedtest.net tests at around 20 down/2 up. Haven't bothered to try FF or IE yet but I will. Haven't tried Safari on it yet either but it was already too slow for me on the old connection SO... Opera is now currently my browser of choice, except of course when it doesn't suck...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
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harold aptroot wrote:
For €65/month I get: 120Mb/s down, only 10Mb/s up though. No datalimit.
That's a sweet deal there. I haven't separated the bill in my mind between TV (digital cable, no pay stations except free Skinemax)and Internet in awhile; the whole shebang is just over $170 now with the extra $20 for "Broadband Extreme" so I'm guessing it's probably about at least $90 or so for the Internet alone now. Update: Pushed 40 down/4 up last night over multiple speedtest.net trips, but only using Opera... Chrome consistently ran speedtest.net tests at around 20 down/2 up. Haven't bothered to try FF or IE yet but I will. Haven't tried Safari on it yet either but it was already too slow for me on the old connection SO... Opera is now currently my browser of choice, except of course when it doesn't suck...
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011
I really really wouldn't have expected a consistent difference in speed (as reported by speedtest.net) from different browsers.. That site uses Flash, right? How can the browser influence anything? But alright, there's some room for improvement there but your deal doesn't seem too bad, it's the same order of magnitude right? Some people are paying what I do for less than 10mbit downstream..
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I really really wouldn't have expected a consistent difference in speed (as reported by speedtest.net) from different browsers.. That site uses Flash, right? How can the browser influence anything? But alright, there's some room for improvement there but your deal doesn't seem too bad, it's the same order of magnitude right? Some people are paying what I do for less than 10mbit downstream..
Yeah the browser difference has been interesting to me too especially since if you visit speedtest.net with any other browser but Chrome it says "Not fast enough for you? Try a faster browser: Chrome". So one would but hope that they would have at least optimized it somehow for it... But yes the site uses Flash so THERE'S YER PROBLEM :laugh: I've just gotten so hooked on the animation that I haven't been even trying any of the other speed test sites I used to use... mmmm shiny... Yeah I'm not complaining at all about the price - back in the day who could have imagined this kind of bandwidth for this price range... I think I must still owe AOL a couple of hundred or so from 1994 when they first tried to get me with their feckin "Channels" on my 400 baud notebook modem :-D
"... having only that moment finished a vigorous game of Wiff-Waff and eaten a tartiflet." - Henry Minute "...who gives a tinker's cuss?" - Dalek Dave "Let's face it, after Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar says WTF!" - gavindon It's plain that they do not yet know what true fear really is. - JSOP 2011