Wahoo! THIS is high-speed internet! :-)

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Ralph Graw
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And, that's not the fastest they offer - just the fastest upload at the cheapest price. Finally can do a backup to the "cloud", whatever that is... ;-)
 
I hate you.

DSL is all that is offered here in the sticks.
my record upload is .57
 
Yup. Bought our new modem last week. Co-worker in Rolesville has had it for weeks, but all the TWC rep would tell me was that they're rolling it out a bit at a time.

So, we wait.
 
We pay for 30/5. :rolleyes:

But check out the spike on the upload side before the throttle kicks in.

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I've got 120 down on the cheapest plan, but they screwed up my local signal strength and now I drop a few bonded channels every day or two.. I have to reboot my cable modem every two days or so because of that.
 
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I've got 120 down on the cheapest plan, but they screwed up my local signal strength and now I drop a few bonded channels every day or two.. I have to reboot my cable modem every two days or so because of that.
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Call and complain. Getting past tier one support is the hard part. Sooner or later, you get to talk to normal people who actually care about their job and want to make things right.

At our old house, we had terrible speed issues. Called, talked to tech support, had a field tech come out, he figured out that we had poor signal strength at the house, and at the aerial drop, and at a place up the street. He escalated it. The next guy came out, spot checked the first guy's work, then worked his way back up the chain until he determined that we had a bad piece of hardware that was killing throughput for SEVERAL neighborhoods. He said, "Oh yeah, there are a couple hundred houses affected." They had to order the parts in. It took a couple of weeks, but once it was all said and done, we got a callback from that same guy to make sure everything was working again.

My neighbor thought his internet was slow because TWC hated him and wanted to make his life miserable.
 
Yea, not about TWC but had a DirecTV tech out who replaced every F connector, ran new coax, crawled under the house three or four times.

Some folks care and will do what's needed. I made sure her super knew what she'd been thru.

Hated TWC for the cable for many years, and still do but the net is rockin'.
 
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Interesting. Smartphone definitely not as fast as PC, wireless better than 4G.

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Plug a laptop directly into the router and see what happens. You probably have 115 download and a crappy router, or too many other routers on the same wireless channels in the area. You'll probably top out at 40-ish on your phone, which is about the practical limit for most common and less expensive routers on 802.11-n...
 
You should be able to get 125-150ish on n.

40 is g speeds.

Could be that the phone can't bond on two channels... old/shitty phone?
 
shawn said:
You should be able to get 125-150ish on n.

40 is g speeds.

Could be that the phone can't bond on two channels... old/shitty phone?
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Hmmm... I use MAC addresses to control wireless access, and I can see the connected clients, so it's definitely talking on N. New Arris router that got me the first post, so unless the wireless side is crappy compared to the wired, I would tend to rule that out (ha). I usually connect directly to the router as well from my laptop.

Ah, wireless on Laptop (also an N):

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So, I'll look into the wireless settings on phone... well, damn Apple. I can't find any settings on the iPhone! :-/
 
All yall motherfuckers are lucky. They don't offer ANY internet service where I'm at. We contacted TWC construction dept. And they quoted us $22,876 to run the line. Fuck. That.


P.S.
Fuck you all
 
Looks like the iPhone supports the new AC standard, but my router only talks N. Still digging into why not getting full N on iPhone. Not the end of the world, but curious.

Hey, Jake, been there and been pissed about it. That's why I'm so pleased to finally have a good connection. I've been thru dial-up (teletype with roll paper, acoustic coupler, modems at 300 baud, 1200, 2400, some other silly speeds), DSL, satellite, cable, hot spot via MiFi and iPhone, and of all the companies I've dealt with, the one I would have said "no way will I ever go back" 10-15 years ago has finally done something for me.

Talk to TWC again about their higher speed stuff, get the neighbors to come together, form a LLP, and sell the connection back to the "other" neighbors... Hey, maybe the town will pick it up and provide some town-wide WiFi. Talk to 'ol Luther down there. ;-)

Or enjoy a pretty part of the state down east and screw the 'net. It's coming to get us sooner or later. Sometimes wish I was back in the day when you had to go to somebody's house to see if they were home. Phone only rang in the kitchen and they might be out back havin' a good time. Never knew what fun might crop up when we had to get off our asses to do things.

Just saw Rodney's post - good point! :-)
 
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I think I pay for 60mbps, but it's a long ways from the 3mbps download I had at my house that was actually closer to 1.3 on a good day.

On my mobile (VZW - Galaxy s5) wifi was 13 down, 5 up.

4g was 20 down, 11.77 up.
 
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Not even sure if residential has access to the 2gig yet. I know that for a while the 1gig was only offered to businesses and was not cheap. Haven't checked out 2gig.

BUT....we've got it if you need to see MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF INTERWEB-BOOBS possible
 
Jake. said:
All yall motherfuckers are lucky. They don't offer ANY internet service where I'm at. We contacted TWC construction dept. And they quoted us $22,876 to run the line.
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They quoted us $2800. Then the sales people said they would reduce it to $400. But ATT DSL was free construction. Now the SOBs keep bugging us anbout UVerse via mail/email/phone even though we can't get it this far out.
 
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