According to Nielsen…just joking.
That headline was just an attention grabber. But I’m not joking when I say that I believe that my Time Warner cable connection in the East Village / NYC is getting slower each month. I report based on my non-scientific study of one household.
I’ve noticed, when at home both on wireless and, in seeking to improve the connection, tethered via Ethernet directly to my newly installed cable modem, that my connection is crap. And it seems to be getting crappier.
I was uploading video for the past few days and my home cable connection upload speeds did not break 91kbps. That’s 35kbps faster than dial-up. Blazing speeds…
I might as well buy a wireless data card and get rid of my cable modem. My data speeds can’t get worse and at least I can connect from anywhere from a wireless card.
I actually downloaded iPhoneModem, which turns your iPhone into a modem, to see if my connection is better or worse than the $60 per month cable service (actually, it’s $30 now that I recently threatened to quit the Time Warner service).
Could it be that my Time Warner connection will eventually regress to consistently below 56K? Is time Warner the Benjamin Button of connectivity? Will it die a slow death at 28K?
