<p>Paying $30/month for Time Warner's standard high speed internet which is slow as hell (the guys seem to be always doing maintenance across the street--yet the service goes slower each time) plus they probably oversell their bandwidth. Speed is rated up to 10 Mbps but fluctuates between 1 Mbps and 10 Mbps down (sometimes > 10 Mbps if I'm lucky). What are you all you folks in the apartments (west of campus) using and how it is? If it's not Time Warner, would you recommend it?</p>
<p>Damn, I want your time warner. You have standard at 30 bucks and its rated at 10 mbs? They haven’t even rolled out 10 mbs at my house and I pay 47! Granted, I get my max speed 24/7 so I guess that’s better.</p>
<p>You are pretty limited in what you can get. It’s either time warner or whatever your phone company is (I assume its Verizon).</p>
<p>I did a sublet in that area a few a summers ago and I had really fast internet. The guy told me had verizon and complained alot about the speed, so a tech came out and did something to the line to make it fast.</p>
<p>get FIOS if it’s offered. Otherwise, at my apartment we pay for the top tier TWC since we have 5 people living here - 30/2 connection on what is supposed to be a 15/1 line. However, the internet gets really bogged down at peak and is extremely annoying - 6 down instead of our 30 on some spiking nights!</p>
<p>cable internet is shared within a community, so it’s natural for it to get slow during peak hours. dsl and fiber optic are dedicated connections, so their speeds are nearly constant at all times.</p>