[COLUG] Time Warner bits and bytes and aircards too

[charles morrison]

On Fri, 2007-10-19 at 23:02 -0400, Dave wrote:
They called and got my wife a month or so ago so I don't know
> whether  
> they said bits or bytes, but it is bits. They already provided a
> free  
> upgrade from the 5Mbit connections we used to have to 7Mbit fairly  
> recently. I just got 6.7Mbps to Chicago using http:// 
> www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/.
> 
> It is 15Mbits that they are now selling as their premium service.
> 
> See http://www.timewarnercable.com/midohio/products/internet/ 
> rrpremium.html

/Mark Wrote:

Do they guarantee this speed?  How does one assess compliance? They
might as well advertise 1 GB/s (or 1 TB/s) download speed. They probably
have wording in the contract that connection speed is not guaranteed and
that they can make changes to your service that "may" reduce your
connection speed.

Much as I had government intervention, this industry needs regulation.
We all accept that fact that when we buy a gallon of gasoline we get a
gallon of gasoline and there are stiff penalties for dealers caught
cheating with the measure.

Mark/


Mark,

Several years ago, I was approached by Time Warner about putting in DSL 
at my office. I asked for a guaranteed speed limit and they refused to 
give it to me. I told them to take a hike.

One of my people, Matt Linehan, has Road Runner at home and his speed 
has progressively dropped over the years. In the last year or so, it has 
been creeping back up, but the fact remains, they will not guarantee 
speed. However, it has always been way faster than dialup for Matt.

I have guaranteed speed at the office, but it's a T1 service, and to the 
best of my knowledge, that is the only way you can get a guaranteed 
rate. There is a catch, though. We had Nuvox service up until this year, 
and they too had guaranteed data rate. The catch is that the rate is 
guaranteed download FROM Nuvox. They still have the ability to throttle 
data TO them, which still reduces your effective rate. This was a 
problem for us at one point, but, in general, is not a problem overall. 
The speed tests they had us run was downloading a file from their 
server. I needed transfers through them (not from them) to be at the 
same rate, and they were not.

*Mark also wrote:

*

*The Aircard may be the way to go once the contract with Hughes is up.*

The aircard service I have in Madison County typically runs 20-30 
Kbytes. Sometimes it is much slower. This is a 2g network, and this rate 
has only been working since about the time ATT switched over. It also 
works because I have an external antenna connected. It is not a good 
high speed system and is very traffic dependent (including cell phone 
traffic). (This connection is 10 kbyte data rate to send this e-mail) 
Since you are a developer, it would not be a good choice for business use.

Charlie

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