Road Runner Upload Speed Increased for Standard Customers in Rochester, No Change for Turbo

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Jan 252010
 

Well, stop the cap has the details of basic RoadRunner speed increases for the Time-Warner Cable in Rochester, ny…. (And the region).

My view… Roadrunner turbo isn’t currently worth the $9.99 difference between Standard & Turbo…

The Rochester-Finger Lakes Division of Time Warner Cable has upgraded upload speed for Road Runner Standard service customers, up from 384kbps to 1Mbps effective over the weekend.  Stop the Cap! reader Sergey first noticed a change on Thursday evening, but it took the weekend for the upgrade to make its way across the region.  Standard service is now 10/1Mbps in Rochester, although the Powerboost feature, also included for all Road Runner customers, can create speed test results showing 20-25Mbps download speeds, at least at the start of a file transfer.

The upgrade may make Road Runner Turbo less valuable, as no corresponding increase in upload speed for that package has been noted.  Turbo provides Rochester Road Runner customers with 15/1Mbps service and remains at those speeds.

According to Time Warner Cable’s website, the increase brings Rochester closer to the speeds other nearby cities have.  Buffalo enjoys double the upload speed, however.

  • Buffalo/Western NY:  Standard: 10/1Mbps   Turbo: 15/2Mbps
  • Syracuse/Central NY: Standard: 10/1Mbps  Turbo: 15/1Mbps
  • Albany: Standard: 10/1Mbps  Turbo: 15/1Mbps

If you are not receiving improved speeds yet, unplug your cable modem briefly and plug it back in.

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Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC

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Apr 302009
 

Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC: “At an earnings conference on Wednesday, Time Warner Cable COO Landel Hobbs said that the cable provider will begin using the newer, multi-channel DOCSIS 3.0 standard to provide Internet and data access to homes and businesses this summer, although it will be limited to New York City only. Time Warner Cable is currently testing DOCSIS 3.0 in NYC, Hobbs says. Testing has netted 138Mbps download spee..

(See the Rest of the Story at MacNN – Time Warner DOCSIS 3.0 upgrade to only involve NYC.)

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Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users – Ars Technica

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Apr 242009
 

Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users – Ars Technica: “Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users
Time Warner Cable’s data cap plan might be history (for now), but unpublished data caps live on thanks to the ‘acceptable use policy.’ ISPs that continue to rely on ambiguous metrics for abuse had best tread carefully, as Comcast was sued last year by the state of Florida over that very issue.”

(View the rest of the article at Ars Technica – Even when not explicit, ISP data caps still haunt users)

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Time Warner and Embarq can’t compete with city-owned ISP, trying to outlaw it

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Apr 232009
 

Man, Time Warner Cable — you are some shady players. Hot on the heels of the ISP’s decision to withdraw DOCSIS 3.0 trials from areas that have rejected its tiered billing plan, we’re hearing that TWC’s teamed up with Embarq to persuade the North Carolina state government into banning community-owned broadband services.

via Engadget.  Read the article here:  Time Warner and Embarq can’t compete with city-owned ISP, trying to outlaw it.

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No data caps, no DOCSIS 3.0? TWC’s math doesn’t add up

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Apr 222009
 

According to Time Warner Cable’s most recent annual report, the company has largely rolled out DOCSIS 2.0 across its hybrid fiber-coax network and ‘plans to deploy DOCSIS 3.0 selectively in its systems during 2009, which will enable TWC to deliver speeds significantly faster than currently achievable.’ But will it?

Alex Dudley, the company’s vice president of public relations, has been tweeting like a madman recently, most of his tweets naturally concerning the data cap issue. When Stacey Higginbotham of GigaOm asked Dudley if the DOCSIS 3.0 rollouts were going ahead apart from the data cap trials, the response was surprisingly pointed—’it was scheduled as part of cbb [consumption-based billing] trial, but we all know how you feel about that.’ Ooh, snarktastic!

Click here to read the rest of this article

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We Won! Time Warner Killing Usage Caps “In All Markets

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Apr 162009
 

I am trying to find a second source to verify this, but according to Stop the Cap (http://www.stopthecap.com ) Time Warner Cable has officially stated that they are shelving plans for the tiering of the internet…

Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-NY) and I stood side by side this afternoon in front of Time Warner headquarters in Rochester to announce that Time Warner has shelved its broadband tiering nightmare.

“In the face of enormous community opposition and at Schumer’s urging, Time Warner will shelve the plan for all of their test markets,” Schumer wrote in a prepared statement.

StoptheCap! confirmed moments ago with the senator’s press secretary that this effectively ends tiered pricing in EVERY Time Warner market.

Stop the Cap! · We Won! Time Warner Killing Usage Caps “In All Markets” – SITE IS BEING POUNDED… PLEASE BE PATIENT.

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Time Warner’s Tiered Internet Plan Draws More Fire (NewsFactor)

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Apr 162009
 

“NewsFactor – Time Warner Cable’s plan for tiered Internet service is running into more opposition and competition. In Rochester, N.Y., the site of one of the trials, competitor Frontier Communications has dropped its own plan for tiered DSL service — and is looking to accommodate any disgruntled Time Warner customers.”

(View the rest of the article at Time Warner’s Tiered Internet Plan Draws More Fire
(NewsFactor))

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Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica

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Apr 152009
 

Pick your poison: bandwidth caps or throttling? – Ars Technica

An ISP review website in the UK claims that 25 percent of its readers have run into ‘excessive use’ warnings. Compared to the new caps being trialed in the US, though, there’s little to complain about on that front.

Internet data caps generated controversy in the US last week as Time Warner Cable expanded its low caps to more cities and one Congressman pledged to introduce a bill limiting the practice. But capped Internet (or, as it’s known in countries like Canada and Australia, ‘Internet’) access is a worldwide issue, even in the UK’s competitive DSL market. One UK website now suggests that 25 percent of Internet users there have receiv”

Read More at Ars Technica

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