Netflix is a service that we use in our home regularly and have been very happy with. Its quality is generally really good and I think we have about a dozen different devices that support it. As I continue on my quest to cut the cord from cable, Netflix has been at the front and center of my strategy. Netflix has now published on their tech blog their findings on how the different ISPs perform in delivering sustained video. Check it out at http://techblog.netflix.com/2011/01/...-networks.html
I just received this email... lets hope it means faster Roadrunner is nearly here! It also really has me wondering if they are going to lift the upstream caps on existing Roadrunner and Roadrunner Turbo. That would be grand. Web version | Tell a friend Dear Customer, Over the next several days, Time Warner Cable will be upgrading its Digital Home Phone and High Speed Internet delivery systems. We're excited to say that this upgrade will enable us to offer even faster Internet speeds and improved reliability in the future. Look for more information on new speed offerings soon. All necessary work will be performed at night between midnight and 6 am in order to minimize the potential for service interruptions. During this time you may experience a brief loss of Road Runner High Speed Online and/or Digital Home Phone service. Once the upgrade is complete, your service should be operating normally. If your modem is not working properly after the upgrade, please follow the steps below before calling Time Warner Cable. 1. Make sure your computer is turned completely off. 2. Disconnect the power cord from the back of the cable modem or from the electrical power source/outlet. Make sure you are unplugging the modem power cord and not the round coaxial cable that has a threaded screw tip. 3. After waiting approximately 30 seconds, reconnect the power to the cable modem. 4. Wait another minute to allow the modem to acquire a signal or reconnect. 5. Then restart your computer. The modem connection light will be solid. 6. Attempt to surf to two web pages to verify good connectivity. If this does not resolve your Internet connection problem, please contact customer service. We appreciate your patience as we take steps to serve you better. Please call 1-800-892-2253 if you have any questions. Thank you for being a Time Warner Cable customer.
I can't tell you how happy I am to hear today that Time Warner is bring DOCSIS 3.0 50mbps wideband internet service to the NC Triangle area... specifically, Raleigh, Durham, Cary, and Wilson. I don't expect that it will be cheap, but the current cap on upstream with Time Warner her is 384kbps for regular, and 500kbps for Turbo. I have no complaints about the downstream speeds as I usually get about 16-17mbps with turbo, but 0.5mbps upstream is ridiculous. I have a couple of VoIP lines and an AT&T microcell, and together with gaming, streaming, and regular internet work... its lacking. Plus, if I have to load files to the web server, it takes FOREVER. The problem is that there isn't much competition around her for Time Warner. I can get AT&T DSL, but I live in the country and so the max speed I can get from them is worse than Time Warner. I'm sure the new service won't be cheap. Currently, without any bundles, Time Warner charges $57.95 for regular Roadrunner - 7mbps down and 384kpbs up. I think actual downstream for that service hits more around 10mbps. And for an extra $10 per month, you can get Turbo which bumps it to 10mbps down and 512kbps up. I have this service and regularly get 16-17mbps down which is plenty fast for me. I have, however, had problems with it timing out doing large ftp transfers of many files and haven't had time to diagnose the problem, It is definitely the ISP causing it because I've tried directly attached to the cable modem and it still fails. The rumored pricing for the new service is $82 per month for 30mpbs down and 5mpbs up, or $100/month for 50mpbs down and 5mpbs up. I'm not sure what the hang up is with them capping upstream speeds. I don't know if they are afraid people will run servers from their house, or what??? The big question is whether they will raise the upstream cap on existing plans when they bring DOCSIS 3.0 to town. I may be able to stay with my current plan if they upped it 1mpbs upstream. But I will probably end up going with the 30mbps plan for $15 per month more. It will give me a 10x upstream speed improvement and a 2x downstream improvement. That should make my VoiP troubles a thing of the past! Speeds here are 7MB down, 384k up for the $57.95 standard rate, and turbo is 10MB/512k for $9.95 extra. Having digital cable gets you a $10 discount. Something has to pay for TWC's swanky new building that opened last year. I hope that Charlotte's upgrade to 10MB down/1MB up comes with this announcement. 30/5 for $82 is a good deal but certainly no bargain. The bandwidth doesn't allow you to use this speed anyway - always congested.
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Happy New Year to everyone from the PDAPhoneHome team! Happy New Year 2011!!! My family and I went to a party last night with friends and had a great time... and a late night. This morning we were invited to a brunch which filled us back up with lots of great food. I hope that everyone else had an equally nice time for the holiday. With the upgrade of our PDAPhoneHome server and scripts, we have a lot of new capabilities. This Blog is one of the new options for the site, and the great part is that its open to anyone that wants to post your thoughts about anything remotely related to PDAPhones. We will be playing with this capability and how best to use it, but one thing I'll be using it for is periodically giving updates on the site and anything else that doesn't fit in our News, Reviews, or Forums. If you are connected to Facebook and post a blog, it can be automatically also posted on your Facebook wall. If you have any suggestions, let us know!
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