Someone failed math at Time Warner

[lost-and-found]

So today I was looking through the junk mail (the snail mail kind) and stumbled upon a flyer from Time Warner advertising a new Road Runner improvement. The new Extreme tier was being upgraded from 10mbps to 15mbps, giving the users a "150% faster" experience. Now, sure, the new speed is 150% of the old speed, but it's not 150% faster, it's only 50% faster.... (Reminds me of the Verizon .01 cents debate)

[sixf00t4]

i'd be willing to bet it was a cognizant decision to put 150 as opposed to 50.

There are probably more stupid people out there that would think 50% faster was half as fast than they're are people who know that 15 is not 150% faster than 10.

[surreal]

Especially since nothing is any faster...

[mrniceguy]

so when do they stop screwing up the network and give me faster internets? I'm unhappy with time warner so far

[osprey4]

I heard some guy on a finance show touting gold who claimed that "stocks have lost 120% of their original value" over a certain period of time.

Not the kind of guy that I would trust with any of my money.

Going on the premise that the average person is an idiot at math, my guess is no one really cared whether it's 50% or 150% faster.

[PoonDoggy]

It's all a marketing conspiracy

[osprey4]

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Originally Posted by mrniceguy

so when do they stop screwing up the network and give me faster internets? I'm unhappy with time warner so far

Internets?

[carl33p]

Will anyone even notice 10mb/s vs 15mb/s?

My fastest continuous download was 4mb/s.

[mrniceguy]

Quote:

Originally Posted by osprey4

Internets?

just bein silly, Time Warner's network here which they took over after buying adelphia has been on and off, they also screwed up what services I had ordered, and now they want me to give up my old email.

[osprey4]

Well, they are the cable company! Really, we need more choices. Hopefully with Verizon running fiber, we'll have some soon.