Roadrunner Speeds go up in Milwaukee

[brewtownska]

Thanks for the heads up on the specials!  I called and got back the regular RR for $29/mo for 12 months.  For being only $3 more per month than RR Lite, I'm much happier now

Mike

[Bebop]

Yeah my speed went up also, and I have the normal $40 RR, I went from 4900/370 to 6900/ 500 rounded off.

You can probably upgrade to 15/1Mb special this month for $38. It doesn't hurt to call.

[Mikey]

My download went up again...

[JDrama]

Thanks for the tip of calling for lowering rates on RR. I just saved $120 a year by making a simple call. :rock:

[Dan the Man]

So I finally reached TWC today and got to upgrade to RR turbo. The good news is that I too got the $39 per month for 12 month deal. The bad news is my download speed actually went down:



I did get faster upload speeds, but who cares!!!!

:bang: :bang:

[Mikey]

So I finally reached TWC today and got to upgrade to RR turbo. The good news is that I too got the $39 per month for 12 month deal. The bad news is my download speed actually went down:



I did get faster upload speeds, but who cares!!!!

:bang: :bang:

Dan, how exactly do you have your PC hooked up to your modem?  Is it hard wired with RJ-45 or are you going wireless?  When I use my wireless USB 2.0 connection, my speed is cut by about 60-65%.  When I use the wired connection, I get what I listed just above...

[Dan the Man]

The above reading was via my desktop computer that is wireless via G band. Before the upgrade I connected my laptop directly into the modem and compared this to wireless speeds. I saw really no difference in speed wired vs. wireless. Maybe a few hundred KBPS at the most.

I will try my laptop again via a wired connection to see what I get.

I am not complaining here, I just would have expected more of an improvement. Maybe it is the area/neighborhood I live in or some other hardware issue.

I did reboot the modem, router and computer also after the upgrade was done, so it should be all good to go.

[vetrev]

Dan the Man,

You should be getting much higher speeds. Try unplugging your modem for a few minutes. That did it for me. My speeds went up immediately once the modem logged on anew to the TWC network.

[kevbeck122]

The above reading was via my desktop computer that is wireless via G band. Before the upgrade I connected my laptop directly into the modem and compared this to wireless speeds. I saw really no difference in speed wired vs. wireless. Maybe a few hundred KBPS at the most.

I will try my laptop again via a wired connection to see what I get.

I am not complaining here, I just would have expected more of an improvement. Maybe it is the area/neighborhood I live in or some other hardware issue.

I did reboot the modem, router and computer also after the upgrade was done, so it should be all good to go.

With wireless G, I see speeds on my connection ranging from 3Mbps to 7.3Mbps (which is the max I usually get when I'm wired) probably due to interference or distance from the access point.  How old is your modem?  If it's at least 2-3 years old, you might try swapping it with a newer one.

[RLJSlick]

Hiya guys, I got my Turbo yesterday and my download speed went up to about 13MB and my upload went up to about 1MB. Thats not bad, specially since I won't pay anymore now then what I've been pay for the next 12 months. Thanks again guys.

[Dan the Man]

Today it finally decided to kick in.



I guess it only took TWC a few days to get around to making the change in the system. The CSR said it would be like 5 minutes after the call. More like 2 days.... I am not complaining though.

I am now very

Have a great Labor day weekend everyone!

[RLJSlick]

That's odd, only took me a about 5 or 10 minutes to go Turbo.
Have a great Labor Day

[kjnorman]

Well I finally tested mine and I got..



Its all moot though as I am relocating to the Chicago suburbs and so I will be stuck with Comcrap ($45 for a supposedly 6mbps line that typically typically gets about 2mbps and is terribly unrealiable judging from DSL reports) as AT&T DSL (which seems to be a better service in that area) is too far from my new house.

Oh well....

[CrashCamomilli]

Finally tested mine:



Not bad for West Allis infrastructure.

[Bigdog]

I've rebooted my SB4100 twice and have not seen any kind of download speed increase. I'm not sure if it is the age of this modem or ? When I tried Minneapolis the speed was even less. Even speedtest.wi.rr.com was not that impressive

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File size transferred : 14.75 MB (15468724 bytes)
Total time taken      : 21.95 seconds (21953 milliseconds)
Throughput            : 704.0 KB/sec [Kilobyte-per-second]
                      = 0.7 MB/sec [Megabyte-per-second]
                      = 5632.0 Kbps [Kilobit-per-second]
                      = 5.63 Mbps [Megabit-per-second]