Thoughts: 1. Yeah, TWC steps up to the plate and AT&T sues. Says a lot about their respective leadership.
2. To be fair, TimeWarner WILL raise their rates; just not right away. Until Google gets here, who else are you going to go to for a serious internet connection? AT&T has no technology to compete. Their Uverse is just glorified DSL. I don’t think they can do it as easy as TWC can. 3. It’s not going to be all rainbows and unicorns with TWC, though. They haven’t the infrastructure to give EVERYone the higher speeds all the time. Your speeds will suffer even more in the evening after the switch. It still has the potential to be way better than it is, but they always say “up to” when they talk about their speeds, and it is common knowledge that it is shared bandwidth in your neighborhood. Lots of heavy downloaders, “cable-cutters” who will get their TV from streaming sites, and greater market share will really put a strain on TWC’s infrastructure. Unless they have been planning this for a long time (it seems like a reaction to Google, though) there are going to be some bumps in the road until it’s a reliable service. Just my $.02. Jonathan > On Mar 23, 2016, at 9:11 PM, John Robinson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Finally, did any of you in our area get the mailing from TimeWarner? Seems > the Google fiber scare is causing a bit of polishing of their offerings. I > currently have the 50 meg down with 5 meg up…that will be increasing to 300 > meg down, 20 meg up and NO INCREASE IN COST. All I have to do is call for > the new modem. If you have the standard 15/1 that will go to the 50/5. The > 20/2 will go to 100/10, and the 30/5 will go to 200/20….and the bold header > says at no extra cost to our current plan. They will notify us when it’s > available in our area…. > > Don’t you love competition, or even the threat of it!! -- Jonathan Fletcher [email protected] Kentuckiana FileMaker Developers Group Next Meeting: 4/26/16 _______________________________________________ MacGroup mailing list Posting address: [email protected] Archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/> Answers to questions: <http://erdos.math.louisville.edu/macgroup/>
