Comments on: Likely pressured by Google Fiber, Time Warner ups speeds, slashes rates

By: Marc Emmelmann

Marc Emmelmann — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:34:18 +0000

The latest issue of WIRED spoke to Google fiber and it suggested we are YEARS AND YEARS from it being available across the US.

By: John Massa

John Massa — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 18:34:18 +0000

About time this segment saw some competition. Paying $40/mo-$60/mo for internet access is ridiculous.

By: brooklynrambo

brooklynrambo — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:33:47 +0000

Same; even with my old work computer that used an integrated graphic card, I was able to stream fine on Chrome. 9 out of 10 times, if not 10 out of 10, Google products > competition.

By: brooklynrambo

brooklynrambo — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:30:27 +0000

I’m really glad Google is doing a successful job out there. Like Jessica said, I wish they can spread sooner. Can’t wait till they are out here in NY.

By: brooklynrambo

brooklynrambo — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 14:29:07 +0000

Unless you live in the Kansas city area, your prices will stay the same.

I'm out here in NY, and when I called my cable provider and asked why I'm paying so much for so little speed, while Google is offering much faster speeds at only $70; they said "We are aware of what Google has to offer and will be competitive with those prices when it's in NY"

By: Jessica Trau

Jessica Trau — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 12:04:19 +0000

I hope that Google will spread this awesomeness to other states, like California. Though I know with how expensive things are, it makes more sense for them to branch out into cheaper areas of the country first.

By: Kevin Moon

Kevin Moon — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:47:08 +0000

Never once had a problem streaming video through Chrome. Of course a decent video card is needed as Chrome offloads a lot of the work to the video card. If you want a provider that overcharges and under delivers look into Frontier Communications. Highest speed offered in many areas is 1 mbps. Often times they can’t even provide that speed. Get about .25 mbps here with 500 ms pings. They seem to have no desire to do anything to fix the slow speeds or high pings in many areas.

By: James Phillips

James Phillips — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:47:07 +0000

As an aside, many people are complaining about poor video/audio streaming and blaming it on their ISP’s when in actual fact the cause is that they are using Chrome, which currently uses its own inbuilt Flash (Pepper Flash) instead of the standard one. Pepper Flash is a huge train wreck – it not only causes audio glitches and stuttering video, but also hogs your CPU and causes cores to spike. You can disable it (Google it) but now there is a big whereby Chrome reenables it every time you launch the program. I was cursing TWC for horrible streaming performance until I tried streaming the same stuff in Firefox and IE and found that it streamed perfectly in those browsers.

By: James Phillips

James Phillips — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 06:47:07 +0000

Oh and TWC is a POS as well. They recently upped my monthly fee by $12 without telling me, and when I complained they told me that some “discount” that I never even knew I had had expired.

By: David Kearns

David Kearns — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000

The broadband we have through TWC is freaking awesome, IT IS the PRICE!! that stinks! socking it to us like the gas companies. far too costly.

By: David Kearns

David Kearns — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000

if you can stream video, and not have any slowness, then there is no need for anything more? how many shows can you really watch at once?

By: Wendy Hutchison

Wendy Hutchison — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000

ok, now can comcrap, err comcast do the same? Be more interested in seeing rates drop, speed I can deal with.

By: Tom Pajak

Tom Pajak — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:50 +0000

Time Warner hasn’t sent me a notice..when will the PUBLIC find out about them slashing rates?????

By: Ben Jacobs

Ben Jacobs — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:49 +0000

please make this a trend!

By: Josh Bare

Josh Bare — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:49 +0000

I have TWC, or my dad does, and honestly it sucks IMHO. We have the signature series too and I can assure you I’m not getting 50 MBPS dl or a 5MBPS upload -_-

By: Arron Bendt

Arron Bendt — Mon, 04 Feb 2013 05:15:49 +0000

Now if only Comcast/Xfinity would do this.