Dogfather
Altitude is your friend
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA | PRICE not king is speed
The dirt cheap DSL ads that smoked cable proved that.
Especially in this economy what people want is cheap. Screw 100Mb for $65, how about 3-5Mb for $10-$15. |
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Grafton
join:2006-08-26
Morgantown, WV
 ·Comcast
| lol i pay ~60 for 6/1 with comcrap and i am happy with where i am i've been on faster connections like my university's network that pulls around 20-30mbps cant seem to tell a diff between it and my 6 i want the upload to be at least half of download but that'll never happen |
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bgraham
join:2001-03-15
Smithtown, NY
 ·Verizon FIOS
| Grafton, I agree with you completely. My 2/10 FIOS contract recently got renewed and the speed was upped to 5/20. I saw no difference except when downloading from newsgroups and running the DSLR speed tests, (and of course on my first bill). I got it put back to 2/10 as I see no point in spending money on something that sits idle for probably 20 hours a day and when I am on line, 75% of the time I am just surfing and getting email.
Why is everyone obsessed with speed? Also, web hosting companies and companies having their own web servers do not have unlimited bandwidth, so most web sites are limited as to how much bandwidth each connection is getting. |
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Dogfather
Altitude is your friend
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join:2007-12-26
Laguna Hills, CA
·Cox HSI
 ·MegaPath
·Verizon FIOS
 ·Cox VOIP
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·ViaTalk
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| reply to Grafton
In the most common tasks like browsing, it's latency more than speed that matters for connections faster than 768kbps. Only very large pages (eg flash) get a benefit from much faster connections, then again, as you mention, even those load quickly at 5Mb.
For "most" people, there is simply no benefit in these superfast speeds. To the contrary, it hurts them. Why? Because torrent users and usenet users saturate the channels, especially the upstream channels slowing everyone down and running latency up.
I would prefer they stick to sub 10Mb speeds to keep the service reliable and use boost/speedburst techniques to make short downloads very snappy rather than have them traffic shaping stuff into the ground. |
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