So I took a break from my taxes today to take a peak at some stuff online. Everything seemed to be moving a bit faster, but it didn’t completely hit me until I went to upload some files to one of my web servers. I would normally upload at around 45KB/sec (on paper I was getting 384Kbps). I was confused for a quick second when my upload speeds were topping 120KB/sec, then I remembered what I had heard a while back about Time Warner / Road Runner increasing bandwidth speeds. A quick trip to speedtest.net confirmed my thoughts. I’m now getting 10Mbps download and 1Mbps upload. Giddy the hell up! I knew download speeds would hit 10Mbps, but there was no official word on upload speeds. My ping times are now much faster as well.
Kudos, Time Warner! Keep up the good work!
(For the record, I’m in the Albany, NY region for Time Warner. No official word on nationwide increases yet)
My nephew tells me NYC had 10 Mbps for a few months now. We upstate get shafted.
The same goes for services like Verizon Fios, which has been available in NYC for almost a year now and we still don’t have it in Orange County, even though there’s a damn billboard advertising it not 2 miles from my friggin house.