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• Posted by Ryan Finnie on October 18, 2006, 10:28 pm

I now have 10mbps/1mbps charter internet service. $69.99/month. They're not advertising it yet, but you can call/walk in now and get your account upgraded.

There were rumors of this throughout the summer, and the "outer reno metro areas" (think Minden) got it a few months ago. But at one point I heard October 1. I called in the middle of September, and was told "sorry, we don't have a firm date, but it'll probably be in November". Later on I heard "November 15" through the grapevine.

But on Monday, I heard that a friend of a friend of a coworker got it, and he was in Reno. I called up Charter, and the woman switched my account over in about 30 seconds. I hung up, logged into my home firewall, and started playing around. Upload was definitely 1mbps, but download was topping off at about 5.3mbps. I did a little research, and found that my 5-year-old cable modem (which I had bought) was not DOCSIS 2.0, and DOCSIS 2.0 was required for higher speeds. I stopped off at the Charter building after work, rented a new modem ($3/mo), got it activated while at the counter, and plugged it in at home. Boom, 9.4mbps from kernel.org.

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