Road Runner vs. U-verse
I am one of those people who hate Time Warner (because of the crappy and recently unreliable service) that can't wait for Verizon FOIS or AT&T U-verse or anything faster to show up in my neighborhood. My dream Internet provider for home would be what people in Europe have - 50Mbps connections but I'll settle for Verizon's Faster Plus services that claims to provide 15 Mbps download and 15 Mbps upload. But Verizon is slowly rolling this out and I am not going to get this for a couple of years. AT&T U-verse is my only salvation as they are slowly offering service in my neighborhood and their Max plan would work for me. U-verse Max offers 10 Mbps download and 1.5 Mbps upload and that would just rock but Time Warner has been upping their game in terms of broadband speed (not service or reliability, mind you) and I am currently getting 15Mbsp download and 1Mbps upload.
I just did a bandwidth test and discovered that I am truly getting close to 1 Mbps upstream and that's pretty awesome as I use Mozy for my remote backup and I also use Rsync and Subversion to backup my code and other essentials files to my remote (Linux) server. My current thought is to get the AT&T U-verse service and run it side-by-side with my Road Runner connection for a while and see which one is consistently reliable and faster. I sure hope its AT&T as I would like nothing better than to dump Time Warner.
If you're not using Mozy (or another online backup provider), you should consider getting one!
Tags: backup, bandwidth, broadband, Linux, mozy, speedtest
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Hey Vinny, I was just looking at Uverse. According to their website, it isn't available at my address yet. I loathe Time Warner and their terrible service, so I'm looking to upgrade. I'm considering TW biz class. The only thing I don't like is the 1-year agreement required. Are you using biz class to get those speeds? My speeds have been decreasing the last few months, and it gets really bogged down at times.
Hi Matt. Uverse is slowly rolling out in our area but they're being selective about where they're starting. It's a weird matrix if you see their current map of coverage, but they should hopefully have the complete Milwaukee area covered by end of the year.
I don't have biz class - Instead, it's something called Road Runner Turbo and they promise 15Mbps down and 1 Mbps upstream and that's what I am getting. Hopefully Uverse will match that and more
Hey Vinny,
I just got U-Verse installed today and it is hand over fist faster than Time Warners Road Runner service. I don't have my results from my Time Warner (never plugging that in again) but here is what I'm getting with U-Verse.
Hope all works out for you…
Cheers,
Ben
I never trust phone companies like AT&T, Verizon, and MCI. They always have several extra charges in small print that are more than half of what you are suppose to pay for. I was an MCI customer for a few years my bill was suppose to be $30 per month but I am charged $56 a month with line access charges and what not. I recently switched over to AT&T they charged me $76 including tax. This plan included unlimited long distance and basic internet which is $20 but it was suppose to be discounted when bundling with phone service which was $40. I asked about DSL Elite and they said it was not available in my area but on the site is showed it was and another friend also looked into it in a different area but he lives in a big city and even he got the same reply. RoadRunner is not as bad as everyone says it is I have 2 TimeWarner accounts in 2 different areas. In one account I am suppose to get 15mbps by 768 kbps and I am getting 14990kbps by 700 kbps and on the other account I am suppose to get 10mbps by 1mbps and I am getting 9900kbps by 990kbps. I get thes speeds 24/7 and it rarely goes down. Unlike the phone companies there are no hidden charges. I am quite pleased with their service. I am saving nearly $10-20 using their phone service including tax.
PS I use the speakeasy speed test Chicago server the speeds i noted above came from that server.
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