Once service I have not seen mentioned is AT&T UVerse. I switched to this
several months ago when it became available. Regularly above 6MB down which
is plenty and so far around 99.9% uptime.
Thanks
Duncan
-----Original Message-----
From: spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:spridgets-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of BJNoSHOV8
Sent: Tuesday, March 15, 2011 10:53 PM
To: spridgets at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] No LBC....PC speed
Well of course anything that Time Warner tells you can be expected to be in
their best interests and not your best interests. I laugh at the Time
Warner Roadrunner television commercials saying how blazing fast their
internet is. If you want to see fast (not!) then go to Time
Warner's own email website: https://webmail.tx.rr.com/ Some days it
loads fast, other days it might take several minutes to load. At work
yesterday I never could get it to load.
Using this thread as in informal poll, it seems that the Verizon FIOS users
are getting the highest speeds. I was going to say that generally any ISP,
phone company, maybe even any public utility company, is going to be
mediocre at best. They are selling a service that is such that they are
somewhat of a monopoly. They can sell a mediocre service, even have
outages, and still get paid. Think about it- what product can you sell and
only deliver 80% or 90% of the time, but still get paid for the full 100%.
My home internet goes out 1 or 2 or 5 days a month, but I still have to pay
the full monthly fee. I don't have any options except to contract with a
cellphone company instead. My theory is that the companies provide service
that is just barely good enough to allow them to stay in business and
nothing more. The sole exception to this might be Verizon FIOS. From what
I have heard about them, their product is generally better than the rest,
and certainly faster. It seems that in the areas around here that get FIOS
pay less for it than what we pay for Time Warner.
Back to the subject though- I think it is useful periodically to run speed
tests just to see how our current internet provider is doing. You might
think it is good and won't get better, well it might not get better, but it
could certainly get worse.
If you look back on my own results- I did a test at work and then a test at
home. We pay a lot of money at work for a high speed connection through
Time Warner business class. I have a normal Time Warner cable connection at
home, but my home speed was faster than my speed at work!
If I didn't test the speeds I wouldn't know how badly we are getting cheated
at work.
> Time Warner
>
> On Tue, Mar 15, 2011 at 10:14 PM, Shop at " Just Brits "
> <shop at justbrits.com> wrote:
>> << I have a Time Warner cable modem, which I'm told is the fastest
>> connection available in my area.>>
>>
>> Billy, WHO "told" you ??
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