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share plz
can anyone please share the software ( road runner turbo) with me????
it would be so kind of you if u do so...
Road Runner
Hey I have had Verizon DSL and I have been downloading at a speed from 6 kbps - 30kbps lately, and the most I have ever downloaded with them was I believe 180 or 190 kbps. I couldn't stand waiting for Fios in my area since it has been 1 year since they said it would become available in 2 months so I decided to select Road Runner. I have tested it the first day and it told me I was getting 21 mbps, I couldn't believe it so I went to download a random item I have downloaded before which was about 10gb. The download speed was fluctuating between 300kbs-1.8mbps which I think is a HUGE range. The average of the download was 500-600 kbps which I thought was fine. Now I would like to know how much faster would it be if I were to purchase Turbo from Road Runner and how stable would it be? Would I have 2mbps for example all the time, day and night? Please reply I've been wondering so much about this! And if there is a better company which is faster and even if it's a little more expensive please leave a note ;D Thank you!
Switched to TW
We used to have Verizon who seem to have the monopoly on the phone lines here in the desert..their service was awful..their so called bundle package with landline/internet 3mbs/and basic cable (150 channels) ran me 170 bucks every month AFTER slapping on all their hidden charges, it was supposed to be $139, with TW I am getting 27-30 mbs with 1.8 mbs upload/ and their cable service has 200 channel of basic AND showtime for free for the first year. not to mention their picture is much better! I also have the phone service US area only. the grand total is 145 a month..the service and price I can live with....their customer service is way better than Verizon also..
RR In orlando florida
I recently upgraded to the entire package,Phone,RR Turbo,HD Cable and It seems when they replaced my modem with the new modem with phone service built into the modem my speeds went downhill fast,I went from 20mb download to about 7-8 AND last night i had half a MB and had to reset the modem and it jumped back up to about 17,but now today its slow again.Does anyone else have this problem? The non time warner installer came out,and didnt speak any english but right after i signed the paperwork he says "oh you might have to reset the modem every now and again to get things working" and I said what do you mean and he said well sometimes you have to reset it.So I just shrugged it off,but now Im seeing exactly what he means.
Would you want miles and miles of cable or <150' of coax?
Greetings folks..
After viewing several different households across my city all with the same cable company, something became rather obvious. When the high paying customers (personal friends) become annoyingly tired of snowy and cross-hatched video on various channels, ask yourself a simple question, would you rather go through miles and miles of cable (with repeaters / amplifiers & signal conditions along the way) or less than 150 feet of coax to your TV? Now think about this, it really doesn't take rocket science to figure out which scenario would result in MUCH cleaner video. Each amplifier, repeater & signal conditioner adds more and more RF noise that is cumulative as the miles goes by! Thus, you'll probably answer 150 or less feet of coax around my immediate residence, that's obvious... I don't care what Direct Broadcast Satellite (DBS) system you chose, it will, by definition, result in cleaner video by the sheer fact that you're not going through miles and miles of cable before you get a signal out the end of the coax! And no, I don't work for any cable or DBS company / distributor - quite frankly, they couldn't pay me enough! The point here is this is common sense for a clean (non-noisy) RF signal!
IF you're completely NON-technical and can't handle hooking up a satellite receiver to a TV set and MUST have the technician do everything for you then a terrestrial cable system may be your only alternative. Just don't gripe because the costs are exceeding the ozone layer OR, even worse, the signal is absolutely horrible with noise (snow) and cross-hatching. Why? Because that's often typical of a terrestrial based cable company. I have now experienced both (actually signed up for both over the years) near the city limits and the cleaner video choice (naturally) was quite obvious from everyone that stopped by and had seen both to be able to do an A vs. B test. Believe me, actually seeing the difference between the two is quite amazing. The totally black images (backgrounds) have NO snow what-so-ever on DBS relative to a terrestrial based cable system.
high speed and TV all on time warner
I would appreciate any advice I can get. I have both Time Warner basic TV (other channels are provided by Dish Network. I have been experiencing off and on snow picture on all TVs hooked up to cable. Have had somebody out twice to check, made some adjustments, worked for awhile, now same problem. I also have wcoil internet through Time Warner using their modem. I have a work computer and a personal computer.
My work computer is giving me fits. Every few minutes picture freezes up. Time Warner has also been out to check this, including installing a new cable. Still having problems. Do you think a higher speed would help and if so it sounds like not everybody is happy with Roadrunner Turbo which I was considering changing to.
Just don't know which way to turn.
Check your equipment.
I did have similar issues with not getting the advertised speed. It turned out to be my Linksys router. It seemed the router could not handle over 7 Mb of download before it would start having trouble. I went and purchased another Linksys router and had the same issue. I upgraded to the latest code with the same results. I then connected a Cisco 871 router (Small Business Class) and my speed jumped to 22 Mb. I then knew it was the home network equipment. I have AT&T and they provided me a D-Link. It seems to be able to handle the speed. The easiest way to test is plug your pc directly into the E-Net modem provided by Road Runner. Go to site speedtest.net. If you are still not getting the download promised you might have an issue with the connecters in your home. Either way have someone dispatched to your home to take corrective action.
Dan, how do you test the
Dan, how do you test the capacity your router could handle?
thank you for your post, i may have found the cause of my rr turbo's slow speed
My speeds...
I have roadrunner, not sure if its the turbo or not, but it must be, seeing as im getting 22mbps on speakeasy... I only download at about 500-700 KBps on average, never seen over 1MBps
RE: My Speeds...
Oh, and I should be getting 1.5 MBps download speeds according to that speakeasy test right?
They do throttle back uploads....
I have roadrunner whatever in the northern New England area. When doing any of the speed/bandwidth tests the download speed is acceptable at about 14 Meg. However, when the testers start the upload they all report about 0.5 Meg then as the upload continues the upload speed drops to half or 0.25 Meg. That is 'throttling' back. I just can't get over how decpetive this company is. I would never ever send anything important over this link because I have absolutely no trust at all in them to not be sniffing data and logging visited sites.
Road Runner Turbo -vs- DSL
Yeh sure,you DSL users run constant speeds that are guaranteed,but the constant speed is CRAP.I hit 22-23 MBPS in the early AM when most sane people are sleeping.I bet is AT&T could push out those speeds,your internet bill would surpass your house payment..LOL...Haven't they raped people for services too long to even be trusted as a ISP?Their idea of basic service includes nothing but unlimited call WITHIN 10 miles,or else it is considered long distance even though it's in the same area code..LMAO..Go with Time Warner for your ISP,but steer clear of their VOIP (digital phone) services...Save time and hassle by going through Vonage for that.Just my 2 cents..:D
explain this
LOOKING FOR CLARIFICATION:
Time Warner road runner supposily runs on the principal on non-dedicated bandwidth , that is , you should be able to compete for the availiable bandwidth within a specifice region. THE bandwidth you can comsume should not have any real limits up to the maximum your cable modem can handle (which for most of the rental cable modem I belive to be close to T1 speed).The only time this is a problem is when there is a large number of users heavily downloading at the same time. Althought TW says that they do not throttle back you maximum bandwidth , how can they say they cam increase your bandwidth on UNDEDICATED bandwidth allotment?
I just upgraded to Turbo
I just upgraded to Turbo Last Result:
Download Speed: 23026 kbps (2878.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1937 kbps (242.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
I cant complain.
roadrunner Turbo
I cant complain. I have roadrunner turbo with download speeds of 24.3 Mbps and upload of 1.2Mpbs. Although I have not, I have heard that changing the cable modem can help things sometimes.
thank you
thank you for this article. it was posted back in july of 2008. i'd just like to mention that it is march 2009 and this is the second time we have ordered road runner "turbo" only this time it's "power charged" ha right! this is also the second time that not only have we experienced the same download/upload speed but at times we experience slower connections. technical support over the phone has tried all they can to help, but couldn't come up with an answer. we even had field technicians and still we received no answers/help. they sent us two new modems, still no fix. we've tried three different routers, we've tried hooking the modem directly to the pc, not just to one but to three different pc's, one in which we formatted and there was absolutely no software to conflict. we've tried seeing if installing a different operating system would fix problems. hell i cant think of all we did but i'm sure we tried everything possible. the reason this extra speed is important to use is because we'd like to use our routers and we have 2 kids and both my wife and i have our own laptops. so we have up to 2 and sometimes three computers connected to the internet at once. and then my children connect their xbox to the internet as well. for 10 dollars extra this turbo by roadrunner seemed like a deal. but it's been more of a hassle and hasn't compensated us. unbelievable to me. we are canceling their high speed service right away this time. we're going to search for a better ISP. if you can be of any help please let me know! and again thank you for your article.
I had the same problem with "turbo"
My speeds never changed, uploads went to 1 meg upstream and downloads stayed at 7megs
I called and requested to cancel service, they sent out a tech who said it was a provisioning problem and they would fix it, i never heard back and next month they billed me $50.00 for the tech.
I called back and complained about the bill, they sent another tech, this tech verified their was a problem, and i refused to sign the log unless he puts "credit for the previous tech" so he did, and i signed
Later they call me and say they put me back on the previous package, (when i ddin't ask for it) i filed a complaint with the attorney general and they credited me $40.00 but never fixed the package i was on, or explain why they could not even come close to the advertised speeds!
ROAD RUNNER TUBRO IS A SCAM! THEY WILL NOT GIVE YOU TURBO SPEED ONLY THE SAME PACKAGE AS BEFORE BUT FOR A HIGHER COST!
They kept saying it was my equipment so i requested they get at least 10 megs down on any tests at my cable box with their own laptop, and they could not even come close!
same here same story
same here same story
One Question
After you got the Turbo option installed did you reset your modem? Seems that the speed jump doesn't take place until you do that. A while back I heard I was bumped up, but didn't see any improvement until I reset, after that 15megs NO problem...
Only thing that sucks now is that RR is killing ALL of my P2P traffic, doesn't matter what time of the way. They're going to get a piece of my mind on that..
WOW, Turbo over here in
WOW, Turbo over here in Southern California is 10 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up =[ I wish they would upgrade my area (93030) to 15/2 -_-
I'm envious of you guys for
I'm envious of you guys for having the ability to choose an internet provider.
Here in New Zealand, we have Telecom, Vodafone, and Telstraclear. Apparently there's another company that you can get in one part of the country, but I'm not sure if that's still going. Telecom owns all the phone lines in the country and Vodafone is a mobile phone only company.
Telecom is still peeved about a law being passed about 2 decades ago that put a stop to it's monopoly on the industry and because of that charges it's competitors HUGE fees for line rental, the end result being that telecommunications here are some of the most expensive in the Western world. A 10gB capped broadband plan (if you can get broadband in your area.. it overloads the lines and Telecom is looking at updating them.... they have a 15 year plan...) is around NZ$170 a month (roughly US$130). On top of that, you have to pay $65 a month for line rental (to have a home phone line) and pay about $600 for the products that you need to be able to use the phone and the internet at the same time.
wow new zealand does seem to have a bad broadband deal
Well it is true those those prices you quoted do surpass prices here. That said, I did have more than a hint of sarcasm in my comments about "choosing" (notice the quotes) a broadband provider. In my particular area, there really is NO other realistic option than Time Warner. That said, the 1 or 2 other options that do exist or are on there way in other areas of San Diego and Southern California (DSL, Fiber) do put some amount of pressure on prices. Just imagine what prices may look like if there were even more competition, such as exists in other basic products like food or clothing.
Fire Your cable Company
I have had very good experiences with AT&T's high end DSL Internet service ("Elite" DSL) It is available even if U-Verse has not been rolled out in your area yet. It will not give you subscription TV but there is always satellite (DirectTV or Dish Network) and AT&T can provide subscription TV in a bundle even if U-Verse is not available yet.
Time Warner Cable is notorious for terrible customer service, so much so that a lawsuit was recently filed against them by the City of Los Angeles.
Also, the Cable Companies are on the warpath against customers who share lots of files or use lots of bandwidth- the FCC is contemplating taking action against them for this practice of trying to charge those cutomers more money or disable their Internet service.
Be sure to get the lowest introductory rate on Elite DSL from AT&T.
http://www.att.com/gen/landing-pages?pid=3308
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