Roadrunner Maxx coming to SE Wisconsin

[mu_hilltopper]

We've had a number of conversations about video streaming .. of import to those in SE Wisconsin, Roadrunner will be bumping their speed tiers, sounds like in June.

15 megs down goes to 50
30 megs down goes to 200
50 megs down goes to 300

.. Now I currently have 30 .. (that tests at near 40) .. and it is MORE than enough for a family of 4, with two kids streaming all the time. 

I will immediately downgrade to their cheapest 50 plan, and would recommend that to anyone but those who need a dozen HD simultaneous porn streams.




Time Warner Cable has announced that the company's Maxx TV and broadband upgrades have arrived in Wisconsin as deployment of the upgrades expands. Time Warner Cable's Maxx upgrades not only deliver faster top speeds up to 300 Mbps, but a notably overhauled improvement to the company's set top box interface. The Wisconsin deployment phase is beginning with launches in Milwaukee, Kenosha, Waukesha and Racine, according to the ISP.

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The company's ultra-fast upgrades started arriving in portions of Ohio and Northern Kentucky earlier this year (Northern Kentucky had already been converted to digital as it was previously part of Insight Communications). There's a a number of threads in our Time Warner Cable forum outlining which areas have seen the upgrades, and which areas are still waiting.
Users in Maxx upgrade markets will see their 15 Mbps "Standard" connections boosted to 50 Mbps, their 30 Mbps "Extreme" connections bumped to 200 Mbps, and the company's 50 Mbps "Ultimate" tier pushed to 300 Mbps. These upgrades will occur at no additional price (read: price hikes usually come later).

“With TWC Maxx, we’re essentially reinventing the TWC experience,” the company says of its ongoing upgrades. “We will boost Internet speeds for customers up to six times faster, dramatically improve the TV product and set a high bar in our industry for differentiated, exceptional customer service."

Of course Time Warner Cable as a company likely won't even exist a few months, though customers can take comfort in the fact that Charter is unlikely to undo the progress the company's making in its final hours of operation.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Gigapower not coming out there?  1gig down?

I thought parts of Milwaukee were to receive this

[mu_hilltopper]

Haven't heard of a Wisconsin Gigapower upgrade.

Admittedly, I'm not sure if U-Verse has expanded its WI map.  Anecdotally .. they moved in to our suburb about 7 years ago, but never made it to my quadrant of the village.  People two blocks away can get U-Verse .. I cannot.  Not sure why, we'd be a customer rich area, densely packed, high ability to pay.

[Sir Lawrence]

Haven't heard of a Wisconsin Gigapower upgrade.

Admittedly, I'm not sure if U-Verse has expanded its WI map.  Anecdotally .. they moved in to our suburb about 7 years ago, but never made it to my quadrant of the village.  People two blocks away can get U-Verse .. I cannot.  Not sure why, we'd be a customer rich area, densely packed, high ability to pay.

It's the same in Larryland:  two blocks away has U-Verse.  Don't know why, and we too would be a customer rich area.  I'm told that cutting the cable cord is soul cleansing.