Thanks for the suggestion. Virgin 4G is over the Sprint/Clearwire WiMax network in my area. I tried that about a year and a half ago; the 3G service was faster than the 4G, so I returned the USB modem for a full refund. WiMax coverage has not changed since then in my area. If I mounted an antenna outside my house, I might get better reception, however, to me, it is not worth the effort at this time. If it were not for this, I would be on their service now. At this point, my only hope is Sprint's upcoming 4G LTE - which has not yet rolled out in my area.For all those ppl that feel that they are trapped by lack of ISP providers in their area. GO CELLULAR!! There are MANY prepaid services that you can get that would allow you to get online w/o having to go through Time Warner. I would suggest you either check with your cell phone provider or check out Virgin Moble. Virgin has a unlimited 4G package at $55.00. Just food for thought.
Residential customers reportedly have shown little interest in their top tier Internet package.
The joke honestly is.. we charge so much for these speeds, so we apparently can tell what people want ahead of time. If the prices were really so low, people would snap it up instantly. There's no reason to ignore likely high interest in those speeds, just would rather charge a pretty penny though.
I'd totally snap my fingers, to get faster internet if it worked. They say it can be done, but where's the actual motivation? Oh right.. their personal polls, that nobody but them can see. "They are already delivering speeds of 1 gigabit to business customers." Well it looks to them it's more interest on money in the end, then actually giving customers a worthwhile rate/price ratio.
I'm able to get a 15/10 speed at best, from my ISP and really that's about it. Sure I can jump ship to cable, but the hassle isn't worth it IMHO. Room for internet in terms of home layout, just isn't viable in terms of anything. Also the prices / rates are terrible here in Canada, making it feel like a black hole for internet sometimes.
1Gbit? Pfft, give us some decent 10-20mbit coverage and I'm good.
When I first saw Rogers had 100mbit I was excited... until I saw the download cap was the same as the 10mbit option (250GB/mo). Not sure if that's how it is still being executed, but if it is, I don't want it.
*update*
Just looked and they have a 150mbit option with, you guessed it, 250GB/mo for $122cdn/mo. :|
I'm on Rogers extreme plus which is 45/4 with 150GB cap for $74.99* Have it running in bridge mode to my Dlink router and its great. I have multiple pc's in the house and quite a few wireless devices the increased upload and downloaded was felt right away from my previous 10/1 connection.
*I talked the rep into giving me a 55% discount off internet for the next two years so I'm paying less than the quoted amount above.
That's a sweet deal! Extreme isn't so bad after looking at the 25mbps Express option for $51 and 80GB/mo limit. 80GB/mo is just pathetic. Especially at $50/mo!
Monthly traffic on my connection is averaging 2.5 TB per month, according to data from the router. 150 GB I would had exhausted in less than two days! In the case of backup data from data server once a week ~500 gigabytes of data - I'm a professional photographer and watching HD movies on the net flow data relatively quickly...
You have no idea how many people here are contemplating killing you and absorbing your identity, just for that sweet sweet bandwidth.
Ow, I apologies everybody here for this ^. I would like to share my bandwith with you all, if it were technically possible.
I only have a small question to think about - what is the problem when it's going without any problems here but not in your country?
I don't know. I'd say that the size of CZ helps, a lot. Where I live, Australia, there are issues with lots and lots of nothingness.