BHN offer

[melnphil]

I was just on the phone with BHN about an On Demand problem. While waiting for my box to reboot I was told about a promotion offering higher internet speed to those with the digital combo plus plan. I was paying 99.95 a month plus 6 for the HD pack, for digital cable with hd-dvr, cable phone, cable internet at 7mbps. I had that deal for a year, it just ended and went up to $109.95 plus the $6 hd pack and about $15 in taxes and fees. She said the price will stay the same as I am paying now, will stay that way for a year, but I will have the 15mbps internet speed. I can't tell a speed difference yet, but it's always slower at night. I know this isn't techincally an HD post, but figured many here have the same combo package.

[CANDY76MAN]

yeah, they upped mine to 15 a while back too, you really only see a difference when downloading from certain sites. Most websites either artificially limit the max download rate or they just don't have that great a connection but occasionally I have seen my download rates at over 10 mbps which is pretty sweet :)
It can help if you have multiple people sharing the same connection as well.
It's basically just a bigger pipe, the information is flowing through at the same speed as before though.

[Jason]

Shortly after switching my internet access to BHN, I moved from 7 to 20, partially for the bigger upstream (went from 512 to 2 meg). I think they stopped offering the 15 in this area once they began to offer 20.

Web browsing speed is about the same on a typical page, since most of the individual components of the page are so small, that they are loaded before the connection has a chance to get to max speed.

It's good for being able to do high-quality streaming, and still have some bandwidth left over for other tasks on another computer.

But in my experience so far (about six weeks), it really shines on downloads, as long as the site you're downloading from can keep up. The best torture test I could think of, was to download a Linux DVD image. It was about 3.5 Gb, and completed in about 40 minutes.

I haven't noticed any speed fluctuations in peak times yet, despite living in an 800-unit apartment complex. At the time of this post, a speed test from BHN Orlando has me at 19269 down and 1758 up. I've seen little change at different times of day.

As for price, my apartment complex buys the minimum basic service in bulk, so I just pay for anything over that. My bill just came in for all three (cable w/HD-DVR, phone, 20 meg internet), at around $88 with tax. Even if FiOS did show up here, I don't see how they could top that.

[Chris Berry]

Any RR Turbo users notice any "boost" in speed lately?

[Chris Berry]

Bright House has launched PowerBoost for customers with RR Turbo. RR Turbo users can now boost up to 30Mbps when downloading. More info here http://www.mybrighthouse.com/newsroom/article.aspx?id=28928

[Roger 9]

One of the reasons I dropped BHN and RR was because of the lack of HD (compared to the dish) but mostly because of the RR speed at certain times of the day.

I am in the middle of nothing but residential houses/condos and there were times my own website loaded like I was on dial-up. There was a clear dropoff of speed late in the day through mid-evening and at times downloads actually disconnected.

I figured as long as I was getting DSL-type speed I might as well save a bunch and do DSL and haven't looked back as I patiently await FiOS.

[JamesD]

things like that scream problem to me...

probably something on the network that could of been corrected