Holy Bandwidth - Take 2
Just signed up for something called Road Runner Turbo which is the faster version of Road Runner cable Internet service that is supposed to provide up to 8 Mbps downstream and up to 512 Kbps upstream. And the results don't disappoint - Here is my bandwidth minutes after the upgrade:
Here is the before speed-test snapshot I had taken a couple of months ago. The download is almost twice as fast and the upload is at least 100K faster and close to 500kbps in other random tests.
PS: Speed Test conducted using the Speakeasy Speed Test flash application.
Tags: bandwidth, cable_internet_service, roadrunner, snapshot, speakeasy, speed_test
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Is this different than the business class road runner? How much does this cost?
The bandwidth is the same as 'business class' roadrunner. The current offer is $5 extra per month for 12 months.
i dont believe this is as fast as business class, which is drastically more expensive. This service used to be known as RR premium and run about 69$ if you have digital cable. Ive had the service for about a year now. Regular rr is 5MB down, premium/turbo is 8 down. Although im hearing standard is about to jump up to 10MB down as of jan 1.. maybe turbo will be 15?
I've had Roadrunner Turbo for a week. Although it's very fast when it's working (tests show about ~11Mbps download, vs the ~6Mbps I was getting before, it also seems to be "choppy"; i.e., I get random delays when loading web pages. This is something I haven't experienced before Roadrunner Turbo. I'm going to give it another week or two.
I also upgraded to Roadrunner Turbo as in the ad said up to 15meg down. Which i was only getting 11megs & when i called to complain they had the nerve to tell me i had a router which i don't so i went back down to standard RR.