Anyone have Time Warner Roadrunner Turbo?

mikebike357

mikebike357

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As if the 8meg down/500kb up wasn't enough... i upgraded to Roadrunner Turbo 15meg down/1.5meg up... but nothing has changed. I've run some speed tests and i'm still clocking at the regular Roadrunner speeds.

If you have the RR Turbo... what kind of cable modem are you using? Do you have a Linksys/DLink/etc router?

I'm trying to figure out what's up with it and I suspect that my 4 year old cable modem might be the culprit although TimeWarner dude said it was ok. He didn't sound real sure though.

 
TW used to give out cable modems that could only handle 11mbps down, and it was a few years ago. I'd personally second your cable modem as the culprit, but this is also the guy that thought exhaust rattle was a dying rear diff.

In other words, don't listen to me.

 
Well, I called Roadrunner tech support instead of the local TimeWarner peeps. Turns out my upgrade was in "pending" state. They pushed it thru and...

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Now that's some fast download yo! Exceeding the published Turbo rate! haha! Can't wait to see how my Roku player performs...

 
I think early morning is the best time... check this out from 6:14am

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If you call up TimeWarner and tell 'em you want to try Turbo they supposedly give it to you free for 30 days, then it's an extra $10/month. Since I canceled my cable TV, the extra $10 is ok if I get better downstream rates when watching streaming video off of Netflix. Been watching Weeds: Season 1 on the Roku box and the pic is better than watching LOST over Time Warner digital cable.

 
I think early morning is the best time... check this out from 6:14am

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If you call up TimeWarner and tell 'em you want to try Turbo they supposedly give it to you free for 30 days, then it's an extra $10/month. Since I canceled my cable TV, the extra $10 is ok if I get better downstream rates when watching streaming video off of Netflix. Been watching Weeds: Season 1 on the Roku box and the pic is better than watching LOST over Time Warner digital cable.
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Christ, you sound like my wife.. Watching Weeds all the time..We are planning on upgrading our Cable, I was thinking about throwing this upgrade in also..
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sure it's 8mbps or 16 or whatever from the house (point A)...to where? All I know is my normal browsing 'appears to be' no faster than it was a few years ago when RR was only 1.5Mbps or so. Throw Flash and other crap in there...the bottleneck hasn't been the RR connection.

Not familiar with how Roku operates, but was it maxing out your old RR connections at 8Mbps? I wonder what the size of the stream is...

(followup: just checked out the device. Streaming movies are no extra charge??? $8.99 for the basic Netflix unlimited. Wow. I've got Blockbuster online now with one out at a time, but I can take back to the store and exchange. Hm...something to think about...)

 
If you want to download... Sunday morning is obviously the time:

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Smosh - I agree with you... I've noticed a wee bit of pickup on surfing speed but what I really notice is the better quality of my Vonage lines and the better pic quality on the Roku. The recommended bandwidth for Roku is 4 to 6mbps. It's not hard to get that speed from regular RR, but it's hard to maintain it especially living in the city with all the kiddies watching their RedTube and what not. With Roku, you can tell when your neighbors all jump online. My connection will go from 20meg now to 8 meg this afternoon. But that's better than 8 meg going to 3 which is where the movie pic starts to turn to crap.

Now if I only had RoadRunner Business Class... :love10:

 
That's insane. Seriously. I may just consider upgrading because of these numbers you're throwing up.

That said, a guy in my office owns a web design/hosting company and runs the servers out of his house. He's got a damn T1. I'm trying to get him to visit speedtest.net to see what THAT looks like
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A T1's not that great, though it works well for hosting. It's only 1.5Mbps both up and down, guaranteed, so browsing is pretty lame, but hosting is better than on normal TW RR. Think of it as DSLish but with more reliable equipment.

 
oh, as an aside - i called TW yesterday to try to get my bill knocked down (kill HBO, downgrade RR to Lite) and they ended up dropping my Roadrunner charge to $34.95 for six months. Normal promo i guess. They really want people to stick with the higher speed!

 
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