Frontier’s Modem Rental Fee: $7/Month; Wireless Router Fee Now $14.99/Month | Stop the Cap!

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Aug 102011
 

Frontier Communications’ DSL modem rental fee is now as high as $6.99 a month in some of the phone company’s service areas, $14.99 a month if you want the convenience of a wireless router built-in. That’s $84 and $189 a year, respectively, for equipment that cost the company a fraction of that.

I can go and buy the modem at a store and it would be less than one year of rental

Frontier’s Modem Rental Fee: $7/Month; Wireless Router Fee Now $14.99/Month

This is highway robbery, and yet another reason that I recommend Time Warner over Frontier…  But even so, I would prefer a 3rd option.  Time Warner’s prices are not that great either…

After all, in Jana, 100 Mps is only around $44 – 50 per month, whereas from Comcast, that’s $100 per month…  In France, the same 100 Mps is only $33 per month…

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Valve might need a few Macintosh and Linux engineers

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Jan 282010
 

It seems as if Half-Life and Left 4 Dead developer Valve is looking for a few good men to engineer things for Linux and Macintosh. Several sleuth sites, as well as more than a share of Mac-focused sites, have been reporting on a rogue sentence not-so-tucked-away in Valve’s Chris Green’s LinkedIn profile, indicating that the studio is indeed doing as much.

‘I work at Valve,’ it reads. ‘You should work at Valve.’ A hard enter. ‘REALLY looking for senior Linux (plus) Mac engineers.’

This would be really nice, after all, I use Steam for the majority of my Windows gaming, and it would be excellent, if I could use Steam on the Mac side as well…

Why Steam? Well for two great reasons…

One, the weekly sales… Yes, I don’t always find something that I want in this weeks sales, but when they are interesting titles, it’s usually a price point I am willing to purchase at.

Two, I never need media, and can’t lose the media. I have a 5 year old, I won’t count the DVDs that I can’t find, or that were damaged by here (Okay, I lie, it was less than 6… but, you get the point…And the cat’s have destroyed 2… )

The only risk is that Steam may close up shop, but they have a good track record… Or that Time Warner starts quota-ing, which could reduce my desire to purchase through Steam (due to potential bandwidth charges when downloading the games initially).

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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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Why Must Verizon Tease us?

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Jun 222009
 

Verizon just ramped up FiOS with speed upgrades for all its regular tiers as well as the addition of a new 35 Mbps tier (w/20Mbps upload speeds).
Plus, Verizon sped up many of their tiers…So that now means that Verizon FIOS is offered with:

* 15 Mbps down / 5 Mbps Up @ $45 per month. (Equivalent to Time Warner’s Turbo, download speed, but far faster on upload)
* 25 Mbs Down / 15 Mbps Up @ $65 per month.
* 35 Mbs Down / 20 Mbps up.
* 50 Mbs Down / 20 Mbps up.

But of course, it not available in Rochester, ny…. My understanding is that the lack of Rochester is due to negotiations with Frontier…

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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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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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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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