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I know someone in Puna who has 5 Mbps standard Road Runner service. He recently did some speed tests which showed a significant increase in speeds (to 7-10Mbps). I’m still waiting for someone else I know with Road Runner to corroborate this.As that person I know in Puna used to have Road Runner Turbo service (8Mbps). He had gotten downgraded to standard Road Runner service a few months ago when he did a an unrelated change to his account (Oceanic had suspended offering Road Runner Turbo to the neighbor islands due to lack of bandwidth).
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Just tested my Road Runner and had 14354 kb/s download and 914 kb/s upload.Quite an increase from before.I'm located in HPP.
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Are you subscribed to standard Road Runner service (5Mbps), Road Runner Turbo (8Mbps) or Road Runner Plus (15Mbps) ?
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I figured out why the speeds are so high.Road Runner is using power boost which skews your speed test results.
http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r2199365...-are-wacko
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Those who are interested can test their own speeds at:
Oceanic's RR own test is at
http://speedtest.oceanic.com/
A generic test is at
http://speedtest.net/
I am on RR (in Volcano area) and testing this morning on both shows similar results. 26440 kb/s download and 668 kb/s upload, which is surely nothing to complain about.
Damon - I thought slow speeds were a result of our homes net, ran through router with 4 different boxes, both Mac and PC, hardwired and wifi, and we were experiencing slower speeds that I attributed to the set up. But recently I swapped out the cable modem and speeds jumped bigtime. If you have probs swap the modem methinks!
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I just tested ours (we use RR in Hilo) and I got 3049 kbps downloading(381.1 KB/sec transfer rate)and 826 kbps uploading. I think we subscribed to the RR Turbo. Why is there such a difference between the two?
Thanks for the link Da Kine.
We have two laptops going here, both wi-fi running both at the same speeds. I wonder if I plugged in my computer if it would increase the speed.
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