Comment Re:Great timing (Score 1) 255
There's no magic wand they can wave to fix their excessive oversubscription.
Magic wand? or just putting some effort into maintaining the network?
I actually don't see any over-subscription (in Austin) of the last mile. I regularly see my rated (30/5) bandwidth to nearby services.
In my case i'm pretty sure they could wave their wand in front of the provisioning console and upgrade my service to 200Mb/20 (from 30/5). That is because my modem reports a 8x4 DOCSIS lock, with (at least) 16 available channels from the head-end. For the lazy, i'm provisioned less than 5% of the available capacity for my neighborhood. Austin was a backwater until about two years before google announced here, when pretty much overnight TW finally decided to roll out DOCSIS 3 (6 years or so after everyone else). Since then they have been allocating more channels and apparently splitting the nodes.
Maybe they will have an over-subscription problem (if they bump everyone, which is what the rumor mill says), but really i've never seen that here. Instead we just got shitty slow provisioning. Between ~1999 when I got road runner to about ~2010 the best speed that TW would sell a customer account didn't even double.