Internet speed arms race coming to Charlotte, winner is you

[Doc Holiday]

For those of you like myself who thirst for ever faster Internet speed in the Charlotte area, it looks like the arms race among the Internet service provider's is finally hitting Charlotte with TWC's recent announcement to both boost speed and raise rates.

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2010/11/15/1839851/high-stakes-battle-for-high-speed.html

Now I myself am an Internet hog, downloads, streaming and gaming I do it all, for a while now I have talked to friends across the country who were having basic upgraded ISPs with download speeds of 25mbps and uploads of 2 Mbps and have been envious of it, now TWC upgrading they're system it seems at long last we may finally see some decent speeds at a decent rate in the Charlotte area.

Now could we get a residential fiber optics provider? Yeah I know but a fella can dream can't he?

[charlotte49er]

You might have to move to Nashville. They have plans to have the entire city Fiber Optics and ludicris internet speed. Of course for all that speed it's going to cost $300/month! :eek:

[Chimera]

So, you guys will be getting 10 mb/s download and 768 kb/s upload?

[TarPanther9180]

This is why TWC is the devil.

[CLTPanther]

F twc

[Carolina Husker]

You might have to move to Nashville. They have plans to have the entire city Fiber Optics and ludicris internet speed. Of course for all that speed it's going to cost $300/month! :eek:

I think you mean Chattanooga.

[Ranucci's Big Butt BBQ]

Move to Belmont, we have fiber optics and it's sweet.

[davos]

Dropped Time Warner last year, it was a great decision

[Jbro]

I get 20-25 mbps with Road Runner at all times. Upload is a whole different story, 1 mbps if lucky.

[TarPanther9180]

Stupid High Point has the Plex broadband and won't share it with anyone else. You can 30 down and 30 up for around $65 (or 20/20 for $55) a month. It uses DSL, so you will maintain those speeds all the time.

However, if you live in Greensboro, or anywhere else, you are stuck with the two crappy options in AT&T or TWC.

[Carolina Husker]

I've never seen a symmetrical DSL connection before.

[Hawk]

you mean the pron isn't supposed to be all jerky like that?

[LiQuiD]

Here the max speed is 3m/768k. Go fug yourselves.

[TheSaint]

No time to read the article...can you just let me know which internets will help me actually kill a knife wielding moron when i put three rounds of 9mm in him on COD?