| reply to insomniac84
Re: SBC I've got DSL over an "SBC" DSL circuit, with SONIC.net as my ISP. ASI (the "ISP-neutral" SBC company that sells the circuits), had a promo a few months back for their 6000/608 tier, $45/month (that they charge your ISP) for a 1-year term.
It tests regularly at 5M/500 using the tools here.:D
As far as real-world usefulness of that tier is concerned, the only place I notice the extra 3.5M downspeed is when I'm downloading from kernel.org -- I get my linux ISO images from there noticably faster than anywhere else!
Load times for a testpage (including a bunch o' JPEGs) served from my ISP's servers, and my server (in my office),
don't seem to differ that much from any third location. I now only store *really big* images at my ISP.
Ideally for me, would be a "poor man's T1" tier -- 1500/1500 or even 1500/1200, I would gladly give up all the incoming bandwidth over 1.5m for another 500K or so going out! |
