Talk:Spectrum (brand)/Archive 1

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Archive 1

Two logos?

What's the distinction in having two logo forms displayed? Using the one with the text and the cartoon would be instructive enough, I'd think. Duncan1800 (talk) 09:28, 13 July 2008 (UTC)

I don't agree

Vandalism

This has nothing to do with the page but I would like to advise any potential person from this company that someone has been vandalising Wikipedia from a Road Runner HoldCo LLC company computer and further vandilism from this IP WILL NOT be tolerated.Thank You T.b.77b (talk) 00:36, 31 December 2008 (UTC)

I would like to add my own comment about vandalism. My router reset this past Friday night and the printer kicked out a page of paper, then I found out Time Warner had hijacked the Internet service on one of my home computers. The browser would only display this idiotic "Call Road Runner to Activate Your Internet" message asking us to call a number and tell them a MAC address. The other computers in the house were working fine. We had to spend almost 2 hours on the phone to get the issue fixed. My DVR has also been recording new cable TV shows that I don't want recorded. The only ways to do this is to gain Internet access to the DVR, use the hand held remote, or hijack the TV guide download. I really don't appreciate the cable company employees hacking my equipment and hijacking my Internet connections. I can certainly see a good reason why someone would become so frustrated with cable company employees that they feel they need to vandalize this Wiki. Nanoatzin (talk) 06:21, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Metered Billing

Don't know if this is the appropriate page for it, but Time Warner is rolling out metered billing on its Road Runner service to 4 markets this summer. It appears that customers can sign up for a package that allows a certain number of GB per month, with a $1/GB charge for overages.

Sources can be found here: http://news.google.com/news?um=1&ned=us&hl=en&q=time+warner+metered+billing

Details are scarce, but it seems the report is credible. 128.151.71.18 (talk) 17:40, 2 April 2009 (UTC)

Service Tiers Information Out of Date

I live in Cheektowaga, NY, and as I understood it, my service is 10/1 Mbps, and burstable. Before an upgrade about 2 years ago, it was 4M/512K. So I'm not sure where the service tiers information comes from. For reference, this happens to be in former Adelphia Power Link territory. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Rchandra (talk • contribs) 17:36, 18 December 2009 (UTC)

Bandwidth Caps

Well from my research on the information posted in this topic I cannot find any information on non-net neutrality proponents regarding this besides on Business Week, which I have found in the past to use sources that are unreliable. So I'm just requesting seeing as it seems there was citations and then they started disappearing and the last one is actually not one, but the crawler that I would guess checks the sources names and everything just hasn't caught it yet. So please could someone give reliable source that has indications of this because even the bandwidth testing thing is all on the same sites. Yes, go ahead check my IP, I wish I could get FiOS, but I can't so yes I have Road Runner, but I'm no employee, I would myself just delete the whole section about it, but do not know if that would get me banned because of my ISP being Road Runner. 76.175.137.84 (talk) 02:43, 10 April 2010 (UTC) The term "bandwidth" is used incorrectly in this context. "bandwidth" refers to a number of units over time (like, megabits-per-second). The more correct usage for this section should be "Usage Caps" (meaning that you have a cap on the amount used, not on the speed at which you can use it). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 75.177.155.196 (talk) 21:07, 27 August 2010 (UTC)

Logo and mascot

"...Road Runner employs the Road Runner character from the Looney Tunes/Merrie Melodies cartoon series as its mascot, a property of its former Warner Bros. corporate parent..." - Warner Bros. is no longer the corporate parent. They spun it off in 2009. I might only presume that the rights to the Road Runner character and image which is owned by the former parent, have been granted or retained somehow by the now unaffiliated spinoff. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.183.111.50 (talk) 07:33, 26 November 2010 (UTC)

spell check

Can someone run this through a spellcheck/grammar checker? Please? "depending on you bundling options," etc.. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.148.212.141 (talk) 03:00, 4 May 2011 (UTC)

Tier History

Would it be reasonable to add a tier history section so there is a place to record how the tiers have changed over time? I noticed that my tier has changed from 10 down to 20 down then back to 15 down, at least I believe it has but I can't find that information recorded anywhere. It might be relevant now as net neutrality heats up and since customers don't really get to grandfather their speeds with the service or the like. If this isn't an acceptable section can someone point in a direction at least? I would really like to see a history here as this does affect a LARGE number of subscribers across the US. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Tinman8443 (talk • contribs) 13:37, 9 April 2010 (UTC)

Speeds have changed, it should reflect that. -Anon 12/12/2015

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Requested move 15 September 2017

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The result of the move request was: Page moved to Spectrum (cable service). wbm1058 (talk) 16:50, 30 September 2017 (UTC)

Spectrum (Charter) → Spectrum (cable company) – I can't really think of a better title, but "Charter" is the owner of the company, not a description. JE98 (talk) 13:28, 15 September 2017 (UTC) --Relisting. JE98 (talk) 04:26, 23 September 2017 (UTC)

Oppose move. Spectrum is the service, not the company. ONR (talk) 00:28, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
- @ONR Well, Xfinity is a cable company owned by Comcast, now a multimedia company, and I don't see it being titled Xfinity (Comcast). Maybe "TV service" may be better, but proper nouns should not be descriptors. JE98 (talk) 11:21, 16 September 2017 (UTC)
  - That is actually not a good example, the reason Xfinity is not at Xfinity (Comcast) is because this is no other articles titled Xfinity. If there was that article could very well titled that way.--67.68.21.146 (talk) 02:42, 17 September 2017 (UTC)
Support Who knows if Charter might get acquired and another company decides to keep the Spectrum name. There is precedence with 76 (gas station), which since 1997 has gone from Unocal to Tosco Corporation to Phillips Petroleum Company to ConocoPhillips to current owner Phillips 66. Plus, what if Charter itself changes its name? I'd say move the page. Jgera5 (talk) 00:22, 24 September 2017 (UTC)
Support move, but Spectrum (cable service) would be better since the company is Charter. Dicklyon (talk) 00:23, 24 September 2017 (UTC)

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Requested move 17 October 2019

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The result of the move request was: Moved to Charter Spectrum. (closed by non-admin page mover) Sceptre (talk) 00:53, 25 October 2019 (UTC)

Spectrum (cable service) → Spectrum (telecommunications service) – Spectrum not only offers cable television service, but also offers internet, telephone, and wireless service. 64222368Z260O (talk) 23:31, 17 October 2019 (UTC)

I'd be more prone to move to Charter Spectrum as WP:NATURALDIS than to quibble over disambiguation semantics. -- Netoholic @ 10:08, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Move to Charter Spectrum, per above. WikiRedactor (talk) 17:40, 18 October 2019 (UTC)
Move to Charter Spectrum. Not sure how I didn't come up with this last time. O.N.R. ^(talk) 11:31, 19 October 2019 (UTC)

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