DigitalTVDojo

I just saw something that nearly sent me straight to bed and under the covers with an icepack on my head and a thermometer sticking out of my mouth. What was it? Even now I don’t like thinking about it. I just got taken back to the days before I got high-speed Internet access.

[Cue ominous music]

I just watched a webpage load in a browser with a 56K connection. [shudders] Ack – please don’t make me relive that!

Okay, let’s get serious. I sat down to write this review of Road Runner High Speed Online, and as part of that, of course, I had to check out just how fast the service really is. After all, what good is a Road Runner review without a thorough speed test, right.

That’s when I came across this demonstration…

Over on Time Warner’s website, they give a live demonstration of the speed of the service by loading a representative webpage using a typical Road Runner High Speed Online connection and put it up side by side with a connection powered by a 56k modem. Click here to run the test for yourself.

As you can see, using Road Runner your page would load in about 1 second. Using that old 56k modem [shudders again – stop that!], it took 21 seconds.

So obviously it’s, uh, faster (I’m a master of understatement).

And the difference is even more apparent when you try and load a video clip – you know, from like Youtube or Google Video or wherever. Check it out…

Seven SECONDS for the coyote bait – Seven MINUTES (nearly) for 56k.

So, again, it’s…uh…faster (see, I told you I’m something when it comes to toning down the rhetoric).

Speed is all well and good. But if you have to pay an arm and a leg for it, that’s another matter entirely. Well here’s where Time Warner totally blows you away. Connections this fast can often run you north of say $75 per month. But they’re running a special right now (click on the link to see it) where you can get their most popular package for just $29.95 a month. That’s a HUGE bargain, believe me.

And if that wasn’t enough, they’re also giving away a free wireless router and free cable modem so you can connect the entire house on one Internet connection (which means everyone can be online at the same time), and they’ll GIVE you $25 just for checking it out.

Seriously – I’m not making it up. Click here to see this deal now before they take it away.

Hope that helps you make a decision. I know what mine would be.

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