Tier Service
With the completion of DOCSIS 3.0 rollout in 2012, Time Warner Cable Internet has standardized the Internet tiered service data rates across most of its franchises, although some minor regional variations might still exist. The maximum advertised speeds for these services are:
- Basic: 3.0 Mbit/s / 1.0 Mbit/s
- Standard: 15 Mbit/s / 1 Mbit/s
- Turbo: 20 Mbit/s / 2 Mbit/s
- Extreme: 30 Mbit/s / 5 Mbit/s
- Ultimate: 50 Mbit/s / 5 Mbit/s
The Extreme and Ultimate service tier offerings were created in 2009, and became available in markets as Time Warner Cable rolled out DOCSIS 3.0 upgrades nationwide.
Previous service tiers that have been retired were Lite and Turbo Plus. Lite was intended as a low-cost, low-speed (1 Mbit/s or less) alternative to DSL services, which, at the time, were generally cheaper than cable internet service, but also slower. Turbo Plus was a faster speed tier than Turbo, but slower than the future DOCSIS 3.0-based tiers, and as Extreme and Ultimate tiers became available, Turbo Plus was dropped.
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