Time Warner Cable called me tonight to offer a free upgrade to the next level of cable modem speed for free for the next 12 months. Of course, they hope I'll forget to cancel in a year and start getting charged the extra $10 / month.

He said it should get me 15 Mb / sec.

Just did a speed test (used speedtest.net, LA node) before resetting the modem:

• BEFORE: 9638 Kbps up / 1770 Kbps down
• AFTER: 10688 Kbps up / 1884 Kbps down

So not a huge change. I guess that gives me the info I need to NOT pay the extra $5 / mo after the year of free service.

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