Time Warner Cable is Starting to Piss Me Off.

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OK, so I have no problem with data caps, but I want competition. So give me 3 different providers to choose from (minimum), and I'll accept caps.
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Reloaded my PC the other day.

2GB of Windows updates.

8GB of League of Legends updates, which failed at 7GB and had to start over, so 8 more GB. Then the entire install was bugged because of that failure, and I had to scratch and reload LoL. 8 more GB.

6GB or so of Borderlands 2 reinstall.

So 2 days, 30GB of downloads in just that PC install alone. The kid on XBox Live while simultaneously watching Youtube, the wife on Netflix, smart phones and tablets all on the wifi all day...

Am I a heavy user? Seems like a typical Saturday night, to me.

Fuck you, telecomms.




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Just looked at my router logs, I DLd 250GB last month, average is about 120GB. So.



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I have been using the same cable modem for almost 10 years now. I wonder if I am getting screwed out of bandwidth.
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GORDON wrote:I have been using the same cable modem for almost 10 years now. I wonder if I am getting screwed out of bandwidth.
Depends. What cable modem?

I had to upgrade to get the latest bandwidth that TWC was offering.
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TheCatt wrote:
GORDON wrote:I have been using the same cable modem for almost 10 years now. I wonder if I am getting screwed out of bandwidth.
Depends. What cable modem?

I had to upgrade to get the latest bandwidth that TWC was offering.
I'll put on my glasses and get a flashlight later.

Sigh.
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Downloading torrents right now... 16.5MB/s (132Mb/s) Not bad at all.



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TheCatt wrote:Downloading torrents right now... 16.5MB/s (132Mb/s) Not bad at all.
I DLd 6 torrents at once 2 days ago, was maxing out at 2MB/s. According to TW.com that means I am on a 15Mb plan, however that works. Bits aren't bytes, I guess.

Also yesterday I got a flyer in the mail to try Frontier Internet, which I guess uses the Time Warner cables but I pay Frontier, instead. I think I will look into it and see if I can get a cheaper rate for a year. I'm currently paying $65/month for my slow speeds and 10 year old modem.
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Yes, the 2MB ~ 16Mb/s.

We pay $111 for phone + Internet + cable TV. I think we were paying $60 for the 30Mbps service alone when we didn't have the other services (So $60 for 200 now).
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Looking at Frontier's website:

Their "Ultimate" plan for $50/month =

Simply Broadband Ultimate Includes:
Download speed: up to 24Mbps, Upload speed: up to 1Mbps


Just terrible.
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Actually, this says DSL. I thought they piggybacked on Time Warner's coax.

I've never seen any good, stable DSL.
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You guys seriously need some fiber.
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TheCatt wrote:You guys seriously need some fiber.
I will tolerate mediocre internet service to not live in an urban area.
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GORDON wrote:
TheCatt wrote:You guys seriously need some fiber.
I will tolerate mediocre internet service to not live in an urban area.
Odd. I live in an urban area because I hate mediocre internet service.
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Too many other negatives to living urban.... but that's a new thread. ;)
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I live in an urban area with mediocre internet service.

How dumb am I?
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I live just above the urban area and have great internet. The problem is you went too far out. You can live closer without being in the urban area. People in my area do all the same stuff you do with the gardens and whatnot.



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Leisher wrote:I live just above the urban area and have great internet. The problem is you went too far out. You can live closer without being in the urban area. People in my area do all the same stuff you do with the gardens and whatnot.
No deal. Next year is chickens and possibly beehives.

It could be worse... I have a cousin 4 miles further out than I, and there are no coax lines going past his house, and he is too far out for DSL. That means no fast internet at all, unless you count the dish that points at the nearest grain elevator, which means he doesn't have fast upstream. Good enough for Netflix, he claims, but I couldn't say if he can do 1080P streams.
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I was just sitting here killing time and decided to hop on a Time Warner chat and they told me I can just take my 10-year-old modem into a store and they will give me a new one.

Hopefully this makes me faster.
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Got a new modem and they gave me a "deal" on a speed upgrade, I will be paying 82 for 50/5 potential speeds.
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