Time Warner Cable’s RoadRunner Internet service offers a $10/month “turbo upgrade”, which makes the already-fast broadband connection accellerated to 15MB/s download and 2MB/s upload.

(Wayne dramatically waves arms in horizontal arc)

Discuss.

Last time I checked, this pricing is only available if you have digital cable and digital phone service. I don’t recall what the price was without these, but it seems like it was in the $30-50 range.

$30-50 for really fast broadband? The only choice I have at home is Comcast and I don’t really know what speed I have, but with tax, it’s over $60 a month.

$30-50 above and beyond the base broadband price, which I believe is currently $40. Also, they keep upping the speed of the base package (which isn’t actually “base” anymore as there are two tiers below it).

From memory, Time Warner Austin is now offereing:
RR Lite for ~ $15, ISDN-ish speeds, something like 256Kbps/64Kpbs
RR Basic for ~ $25, DSL-ish speeds (though that varies, obviously) of 3Mbps/384Kbps
RR Standard for $40, 7Mbps/512Kpbs (some areas may still be 6Mpbs down)
RR Turbo for $50 with digital phone and digital cable, something like $80 without, was 10Mbps/1Mpbs when I last checked, but now 15Mpbs/2Mbps based on Wayne’s post here.

Of course, 15Mbps is likely not that useful since you are often restricted by server speed. 2Mbps up is nice, though, and certainly ups the ante of temptation.

where are the funny critter pix?
I need extra this week to get through TAKS.

Ren’s first comment, I don’t know what it is if you don’t do the tri-fecta thing (I do have phone, internet and cable through Time Warner) but before the change, I paid ~$30 all-told (with taxes) for my 6meg down / 384K(?) up. Now I pay a shade over $40 for 15meg down / 2MB up.

Martymankins, yup, see above. $40 for super fast broadband, but I do have to have the other services. I think it’s worth it.

Ren’s 2nd comment, I think 15MB is plenty useful. For one, I work from home a LOT. I use a Fortigate F60A at home, which lets me do network-based VPN and traffic shaping, which means I can always make sure my work-related traffic is top priority. Then I put outbound HTTP, DNS, ssh and terminal services as second tier. Then everything else is best effort (torrent for example). Since I share my internet with my in-laws next door via wireless, this helps.

But man, VPN is so much better with the bigger pipe. The upload is really what gets it to be super satisfactory.

Raganator, Good luck administering LOLtaks. hopefully today’s post worked for you and based on your comments, it did! I worked extra special hard because you asked me to. I hope you liked Little River Band - I *really* wish I could’ve gone!

I just got an add from them and according to that it is $9.95 and requirement is already having thie internet service. Nothing even in fine print besides that. I want to try it free for a month which is what they are offering. I am skeptical of the speeds advertised though. We’ll see…..