On 05/26/2015 08:00 AM, I wrote:

Does anyone use Time Warner Cable internet and have you run a speed
test? I just got off the phone with U verse to cancel service and the
guy said the "up to" speeds TW claims are usually not even close. I have
U verse and it consistently runs at the advertised speed.

https://purchase.timewarnercable.com...g&gclsrc=aw.ds


This may be changing soon: It's just been announced that Charter is
buying TWC. We've had Charter for 11 years, during which time we've had
just three outages, one of which was caused by the gas company digging
up the cable.

Well, now I see a report that Charter may face the same regulatory
hurdles that Comcast faced when it tried to buy TWC. But Why? Where is
the competition that a takeover would kill? Hands up all those who
currently have a choice between TWC and Comcast or TWC and Charter?
Anybody? (OK, so municipalities -- at least in some areas -- get to
choose to which company they grant a franchise, but that's not the same.)

Charter's advertised "down" speeds seem to be conservative: We're paying
for 18mbps down and 4mbps up, and although the "up" speed is
occasionally a little lower (never below 3.8mbps in my tests, IIRC), the
"down" speed is often over 30mbps. But Charter doesn't offer speeds as
high as TWC: Even Charter's "business" package offers only "up to"
60mbps down and 4mbps up, whereas I see that TWC offers a package with
"up to" 200/20mbps; even if you don't always get that high a speed, I'd
complain if I didn't get at least half of that.

What speed do you get with U-Verse?

Much of the USA is way behind many other parts of the world when it
comes to Internet speeds. As mentioned previously, the highest we could
get from Charter is 60mbps, whereas a family member in Australia has
100mbps down (not sure about up), and I just read a post by a guy in the
Netherlands who has 150mbps and is planning to upgrade to 500mbps.

Another poster in that same forum says he pays 469 Swedish Crowns
(~US$55.88) per month for 100mbps up and down (although the SpeedTest
report he displayed shows only ~94mbps up and down). To that someone
responded that Cox (Canadian, eh?) charges $180/month for a 50/10
business service.

I wonder whether those higher TWC speeds will be offered to existing
Charter customers.

A speed test just now showed 31.64/4.44.

Perce