Time Warner Feeling Heat From Google Fiber, Raises Speeds In Charlotte

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OMG the problems you face. Try living in Australia I am stuck on ADSL my max actual download speed is 1.5mb a sec. The government says we dont need a national broadband network. I t will be a long time till anything faster comes. Tell Google to come here and put optic fiber in they will own the market. A Chinese company wanted to put optic fiber all through Australia, the Government said no way security issues.

We are the biggest down loaders of movies cause we don't want to wait till it gets released.
 
If the people running TWC had any clue, we would be talking about how they're upgrading every network of theirs across the country.

Instead, they're going to continue dragging their feet with this reactionary business strategy, and only offer better service when someone better has already rolled into town. If they'd been on top of this to begin with, they wouldn't have created a vacuum of service that would attract competition in the first place.
 
It's incredible and assaults their credibility as a company. Competition moves in and blink..speeds enormously improve overnight? They are milking consumers. And I am also tired of calling them every 6 months to lower my bill. Used to be $39.99 and would creep to $65. Now it's $52 and creeps to $75. 20Mps down and 2Mbps up for reference. I don't have competition in the area. I'm an hour North of Charlotte.
 
Ahhh. Car-lotte and Time Warner with the Google kicker. It's like getting kicked in the crotch on your way to the dentist after visiting the proctologist.

It saddens me to say that Charlotte and this region of 'Carolina' is a minefield of ISP and 'Bell' disasters. It's good to know the chosen privileged of 'Uptown and South Charlotte' get their Fiber and TWC-Love, while the rest subsist on ancient coax and twisted pair.

Old Adelphia, Charter, TWC stuff. Otherwise, 3 or 4 community-owned FNs -mostly mostly fed-up with being 'abandoned' by the bigs. Craptastic speeds, service, plans and service. Yeah. I said service, twice.

A few hours outside of Charlotte there is a local old-time co-op called SkyLine in Watauga County that is building-out a fiber network. For $100/month -50-down / 4-up with a great range of plans. Go, Hill People.

Otherwise, it's LOL and GTFOH. Charter 3-down is $35/month. I'll see "3Mbps down" when scented Christmas trees fly-out of my rectum.

 
amazing. the douchebaggery of holding bandwidth like that. the HIGHEST tier they had available before is now the lowest. that's how much bandwidth they were keeping. wow. just wow.
 
Funny how the companies kept saying that there is enough competition, and then they go do something like this and prove themselves wrong.
 
My ISP upgraded their whole network to 100/2 Mbps on their cable offerings.
They don't seem to of upgraded the hardware or backhaul to accommodate the increased traffic.
I'm 600m from the exchange and can achieve 30/1.2 Mbps as a maximum.
Between 6:30pm-11pm the speed drops to about 7/0.3 Mbps and I have a ping of between 1k-2k. The over subscription is just amazing. I ring up almost every night to complain I am paying $110/month for unusable Internet. Same excuse given every night about how it's not their fault, it's high use of it's customers during peak times causing the problem. I try and explain how that is in fact their fault for over selling the infrastructure but they never agree. It's the customers fault.
I started looking at houses for sale in a suburb where Fibre has been rolled out because I'm so sick of living with shit internet. First world problem I guess.
 
Many years ago I talked to a guy who lived in rural France. For not much, about
the equivalent of $30/month I think, he had 25Mbit, loads of TV channels and
13 free static IP addresses. That last part made my jaw drop, as in the UK having
static IPs is regarded as something only for biz customers.

It's better now in the UK in terms of available speeds (100MBit+ not a problem
except in rural areas and islands), but the prices can be kinda high, and the
upload speeds need to be a lot better. Still, I have no problems maxing out my
current 30Mbit service for downloads, and I'm supposed to be able to upgrade to
60Mbit if/when I can find the free time to sort out the modem replacement. Just
wish the overall package cost wasn't so expensive. Think I'll ditch normal or
severely downgrade the TV option, hardly use it much now as it's mostly junk.

Ian.

 


Not as long as the NRA exist.

 
Google gets another point in my book. While I doubt the motivation behind fiber is to move America forward, it is without doubt benefiting the masses in more ways than one. :)
 


I was referring to the united states. Gun control laws aren't as effective as it's much harder to protect the massive land border the US has with Canada and Mexico vs simple shipping imports in Australia. What works in one place may not work in another.
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Mexico actually already has extremely strict gun laws. Their drug cartels have been getting their guns from the US.
 
lol how foolish Time Warner. They seem to think they are Comcast or something and actually laid down Fiber already and prepared their network for 300 mb/s. Sure a Docsis 3.0 modem with 8 bonded channels can handle up to 343 mb/s, but the Time Warner network is not built with enough quality to supply that signal.
 
We had a 34 person Massacre in the 90's without gun control. That resulted in strict gun control and we haven't had another mass shooting since.
Pretty clear what the problem was.
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No, not pretty clear in the slightest because in the United States over 99.9%+ of firearms are never used in a crime nor linked to a crime.
Would you just stand and allow them to ban all knives because a knife was used to stab a bunch of people to death?
You also forget to mention that there was a BIG increase in rapes, assaults and break-ins once you did your gun ban nonsense.
 
If the people running TWC had any clue, we would be talking about how they're upgrading every network of theirs across the country.

Instead, they're going to continue dragging their feet with this reactionary business strategy, and only offer better service when someone better has already rolled into town. If they'd been on top of this to begin with, they wouldn't have created a vacuum of service that would attract competition in the first place.
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But then, they would have to cut down on the shareholder's dividends and profits they claim each year.
 
You guys have no idea what it takes to build out a network. TWC has been upgrading Charlotte for over 2 years to get it ready for higher speeds. Its not like they can simply flip a switch, and BOOM its done. Even right now they are not going to increase the speeds until all analog channels will turn off and switch to digital.
Look at Google Fiber. They are past 5 years in Kansas City and they still havent built their network for the most part.
This was not a reactionary deployment. We, as employees were told about these speeds in late 2011. Plus, on of the reasons for Charlotte, is there are over 500000 hsd customers in charlotte alone. It is a big enough market.
 


Gasp, a Time Warner employee, what a brave fellow to admit it. You are a brave soul my friend. Are they going to keep all the TW employees when the merger with Comcast goes thru to create the worst mega cable company in the world?
 
I couldn't believe my own eyes. $119 for 30 Mbps + TV? I thought America was much more advanced. I live in Russia in a relatively large city. I pay $10 (current exchange rate) for 60 Mbps up/down, 120 TV channels and cheap calling. Google Fiber is at least somewhat competitive with what we have but I don't need gigabit speeds.
 
Time Warner's system is UGLY. They are pretty much a collection of several dozen smaller cable companies. So they had attempted to patch them all together, and working on their system feels like its all patched together. There is a lot of waste in just getting things to work through manual input that should be automatic. To answer for this waste, they add more wasted effort in nickel and diming the customer.
 
I spent 30 minutes bouncing around their customer service and billing depts complaining about the $20+ price increase in 1 month and got no where. So I decided to cancel my TV service and try Sling TV. When I had them transfer me to the dept to terminate my service all of a sudden they were throwing special offers at me left and right. I took their 3rd offer which keeps everything the way I have it and cuts my bill $35, so I'm paying less then before. I still plan a on dropping the service eventually. I'll see how long they will keep their promise to hold this price for a year. Usually they last about 3 months then try to raise it.
 
Once Google Fiber is in Charlotte, I am changing. I wouldn't even accept a $100 a month payment from TWC to keep their service, I would rather pay Google for theirs. 25+ years of bending over for them has turned off any chance I will ever like them again.
 


AMEN Brother!
 
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