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This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area. Here's the announcement from
by krazybig 14y ago
This article is factually inaccurate. Time Warner is rolling this change out across the country, not just in the Kansas City area.
Here's the announcement from December:
http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-download-speeds-by-50-percent-for-standard-internet-customers/ http://www.twcableuntangled.com/2012/12/we-are-boosting-down...
Frankly, Time Warner needs to increase their internet speeds to keep up with LTE. I have one of the higher speed options and my LTE speeds are about twice what I experience on my Time Warner connection.
- ceol 14y agoYeah, Comcast is doing the same thing in my hodunk little town on the East Coast— sans the price decrease.
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- jrockway 14y agoI have a 50mbps Time Warner connection and all I got was a letter telling me that I would have to pay $8 a month to rent a $10 modem. One thing I've noticed since moving to New York City from Chicago is that nobody has to even try in New York because the captive audience is so large that even the worst-run business will make tons of money. ("We don't take credit cards." "A $5 fee will be added for paying your bill online." "No laptops allowed at this coffee shop.") I'm surprised JFK isn't a Ryanair hub yet. </rant>
- tedunangst 14y agoYou can't buy one? (They're not $10 anywhere I've seen, btw. Break even is around a year.)
- rolleiflex 14y agoNot taking credit cards and "no laptops allowed" are hallmarks of indie coffee shops though. No other sane business in New York would even dare to pull that off—they have the only audience who would put up with such limitations.
- bennyg 14y agoMy apartment complex has a $15 convenience fee for paying online. It's 2013.
- rdouble 14y agoJust give it time. All of the poorly run NYC businesses I enjoyed in the late 90s are long gone.
- apaprocki 14y agoBuy this from your favorite online site: http://www.motorola.com/Video-Solutions/US-EN/Products-and-Services/Voice-and-Data-Consumer-Premise-Equipment/DOCSIS-Modems-Gateways-and-eMTAs/Cable-Modems/SB6141-US-EN http://www.motorola.com/Video-Solutions/US-EN/Products-and-S... Call the service # and tell them you have a new MAC address to give them for your subscription and the fee gets removed. All-in-all it took 5 minutes.
- mnutt 14y agoI'm glad TWC allows this. My parents (who are on Comcast) began getting a $5/mo fee added because they did not rent Comcast's cable modem. (which also costs $5/mo)
- colanderman 14y agoI'm on Comcast and have my own modem (the one linked above, it's great) and have no such fee.
- krazybig 14y agoThe changes only apply to the two lowest tiers. Standard changed from 10 down/1 up to 15 down/1up. Turbo changed from 15 down/2 up to 20 down/2 up.
- tincholio 14y ago> This article is factually inaccurate No, it is not. The guy states what he /thinks/ might be reasons for this change, not that they /are/ the reasons.
- pc86 14y agoCome on. The tone of the article is clearly "TWC is a bunch of evil bastards and they're only doing this because of new competition and they're assholes and this is something they could have done years ago and they just didn't because they're greedy!!1" Which is not really the case.
- tincholio 14y ago> Which is not really the case. Is it not, really? :)