[TriLUG] Time Warner Business Class

[Keith Woodie]

What kind of upload and download speeds are you seeing with business class?

On Wed, Apr 9, 2008 at 11:38 PM,  <jonc at nc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>  ---- Christopher L Merrill <chris at webperformance.com> wrote:
>  > Keith Woodie wrote:
>  > > I am going to start telecommuting two days a week, and I have been
>  > > pondering upgrading to TWC business class.
>  > >
>  > > Can some of you list advantages/disadvantages?   I know there have
>  > > been several complaint threads.
>  >
>  > I guess I have both, since we use RR Businesss at the office.  One of
>  > my coworkers sprung for business class at home.  We both VPN into our
>  > office frequently.  For our purposes, I don't think we can tell the
>  > difference.  He says he has received good service at home when he has
>  > encoutered outages, but I've had the same at home with residential.
>  >
>  > It seems like we get more outages at work, but it isn't really a fair
>  > comparison since I'm using that connection 8 hours per day and using
>  > my home connection for only 2.
>  >
>  > Chris
>  >
>
>  Business service uses different frequencies (or channels) on the cable and connects up to different (business) Distribution routers on the back-end. They seem to be fairly good these days about distributing loads on the Business network - so your latencies stay low and your bandwidth stays high.
>
>  Caveat: If they redistribute the load in your area, your service will go to crap - until you turn off then turn back on the Cable modem. We teach customers this ritual all the time.
>
>  Additionally, with Business you get static IP's (if you want), and that can be a nice thing if you want to deploy your own DNS or other services.
>
>  Jon Carnes
>  FeatureTel
>
>
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