Earthlink provides the Internet side of the technology including Level 2 user support. Installation costs have not been finalized as yet. You cannot use the current set-top box connected to your television. Internet installation, according to Romano, takes 45 to 60 minutes. The Two Plans Charter expects to offer two high-speed access plans.
Charter plans to have even higher speed access available in the future.
Performance Romano permitted me to test drive a 256 kbps connection. The speed appeared to be about 5 times the speed of my 50,666 bps connection with my USR X2 modem via Netplex . It was impressive. The speed of the download almost kept pace with the showing of the movie in real time. Again, the pictures painted the screen rapidly.