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04-23-2008, 11:19 PM
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Name: Geoff City: Greensboro State: NC County: Guilford Join Date: Feb 2008 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Hi guys,
I just thought I'd pass my experience on to hopefully help someone else out. I get my Earthlink internet access through Time Warner. About 4-6 months ago my connection got really slow. I contacted Earthlink, they said call TW. TW said call Earthlink... After a few rounds of that, a friend of mine at work said same thing happened to him and he had TW replace his cable modem. So I called TW and had them replace the modem (free of charge) and bingo! My speed jumped back up to normal - around 4.5 Mbps!
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04-23-2008, 11:22 PM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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The same happened to me several years ago. I guess everything gets old and slow eventually.
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04-23-2008, 11:47 PM
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Name: Andy City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 50 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 5.99 over 180 days |
Careful, Tracey... you are only 3 years my junior or I would be less (but still somewhat) polite.  I got a big one staring me in the face right after Christmas. I'm thinking finishing a 10K wth the running pack (in the top third or so) would be an awesome way to mark that. Unfortunately, it hasn't gone far past the thinking stage yet... .gif "Drogar BigGrin(DBG)") | |
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04-23-2008, 11:57 PM
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Name: Tracy City: Salisbury State: NC County: Rowan Join Date: Feb 2008 Age: 47 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Originally Posted by AndyBarnhart  Careful, Tracey... you are only 3 years my junior or I would be less (but still somewhat) polite. I got a big one staring me in the face right after Christmas. I'm thinking finishing a 10K wth the running pack (in the top third or so) would be an awesome way to mark that. Unfortunately, it hasn't gone far past the thinking stage yet... Old and slow is better than some of the other alternatives I could think of. 10K sounds like a lot of training and little time for making sawdust. Sure you want to do that? 
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04-24-2008, 12:39 AM
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Name: Andy City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 50 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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Sure I want to? Absolutely!
Sure I can/will? Let me get back to you...  | |
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04-24-2008, 05:41 PM
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Name: Mark City: Goldsboro State: NC County: Wayne Join Date: Mar 2006 Avg Visit Freq/Week
= 5.91 over 180 days |
I am in the process of trying to upgrade my Linux. Two days ago the speed was around 400 kbs. Yesterday it started at 26 kbs (I decided to abort and wait a bit) and 2 hours later was up to 600. Today I was up to 1500 kbs for a little bit amd then it dropped down to 400 again.
The file I was downloading was 3.2 gig.
Bottom line, I don't think its the modem. Me thinks its TW Broadband.
Go
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04-24-2008, 08:51 PM
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Name: Peter Davio City: Hope Mills State: NC County: Cumberland Join Date: Dec 2005 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I test my connection rather regularly using http://www.bandwidth.com
recent speeds there, on TW (but paying for Earthlink) on a 5 mB connection have ranged up to 5026. but when I initially got the service, there were numerous problems with it, connections were spotty, speed was horrible. it took a few calls, and testing a few of TW's nodes, to narrow down to the problem. turns out they changed out several of the routers, nodes, switches, and whatever else about three links up from my place. Call. put em to work, and results can be great!
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04-24-2008, 09:55 PM
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Name: Reggie City: Albemarle State: NC County: Stanly Join Date: May 2007 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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If any of you see me "running" PLEASE, come help me! Something will definitely be after me!!
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04-24-2008, 10:22 PM
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Name: Andy City: Cary State: NC County: Wake Join Date: Mar 2008 Age: 50 Avg Visit Freq/Week
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I just tried mine - TW in Cary. 4387k down, but "only" 233k up. Standard consumer grade service. | |
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