Time Warner Cable offers four
basic levels of road runner high speed connections. The
four levels are road runner lite, basic, standard and turbo.
Each of the levels comes with a free security suite (from
computer associates) that helps protect your computer from
various online threats. The parental control feature allows
subscribers to control what their kids view online. The
download and upload speeds for the internet connections vary
by the neighborhood and the number of people using the
internet at a particular time. Turbo and Standard customers
may also get Powerboost.
Road Runner High Speed Internet Levels
Road Runner Lite
Road Runner Lite offers up to 768kbps download (128Kbps upload) speed and is an option
for customers who do not want to pay much more than they
currently pay for dial-up. It is suitable for
those who want to access the
internet, surf the web and send emails. It is not suitable
for customers who frequently download heavy files, music or videos.
Customers enjoy remote-dial access to their webmail, upto
five email accounts, free anti-virus, firewall, ad blocker
and spam blocker ( from Computer Associates)
.Road Runner Basic
Road Runner
Basic offers customers faster speeds than Road Runner Lite and at a more economical rate than Road Runner
standard and turbo. Customers experience download
speed up to 2 Mbps and upload speed of up to 384Kbps. Road Runner Basic customers enjoy
all the features listed above for Road Runner Lite, up to 5 MB of personal web space,
parental controls, video emailing, free Internet Security Suite, 100MB
Storage space and up to 20MB for sub accounts.
Road Runner Standard
Road Runner Standard
is one of the most popular products offered by Time Warner
Cable. Customers enjoy up to 512 kbps upload and 7.0 Mbps
download speeds, access to email from anywhere, up to ten e-mail accounts, free Internet Security Suite from Computer Associates
and occasional power boost to the internet speeds.
Road Runner Turbo
Road Runner Turbo
is the fastest level offered by Time Warner. It offers download speeds up to 15.0 Mbps
in addition to all the features of Road Runner Standard.
Customers get up to 25 e-mail accounts, 2 GB Mailbox Storage Size
and access to email from anywhere. It is absolutely
imperative that the right kind of internet modem is used,
otherwise the customer will not enjoy the full benefit of RR turbo. The
customers may also enjoy the benefit of powerboost during
periods of large file transfers.
Time Warner Cable Wideband Internet
Time
Warner cable, in an effort to remain competitive in the marketplace,
has taken the tiers on internet connections to a new level, by
introducing the Wideband internet which offers download speeds of up to 50 Mbps.
This allows customers to stream videos at the DVD quality.
This is not available to all areas yet, so be sure ask about
it.
