Rob
In Deo speramus, God Bless the USA
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join:2001-08-25
Kendall, FL
 ·Comcast
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Re: Year 2008 and I can only get 1.5/256 from DSL...
said by NormanS  :said by Rob :But you can keep being a telco apologist. And you a cableco apologist. Same difference. Big difference. I actually have used AT&T (formerly BellSouth) and currently use Comcast. I have yet to see you even use Comcast. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
 ·Pacific Bell - SBC
| said by Rob :Big difference. I actually have used AT&T (formerly BellSouth) and currently use Comcast. I have yet to see you even use Comcast. I have downloaded fansubbed anime on my sister's Comcast connection, and done some other work. 6M doesn't seem all that great. You can't download any faster than the other end can upload; most of my downloads moved about as fast on cable as on 3Mb DSL.
And I not about to spend twice as much for cable as DSL costs just to get a little extra speed that I won't be using; or to have the cable fanbois telling me I am wrong to run a server.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
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Crookshanks
join:2008-02-04
Endicott, NY
| said by NormanS :You can't download any faster than the other end can upload; most of my downloads moved about as fast on cable as on 3Mb DSL. Then that's a problem with Comcast because I had no problem pegging my Roadrunner Turbo connection (8MBits) when I had it. A few sites couldn't manage to max it out but the overwhelming majority of large downloads could. Well seeded bittorrents could. A handful of times I saw what appeared to be throttling and/or capacity issues but the bulk of the time I had no problems achieving full speed.
Don't get me wrong -- I'll take my 3.0/768 DSL over 8.0/512 cable -- DSL (for me, YMMV) seems more stable and I'd rather have the upload bandwidth -- but I don't see how you can dismiss that download bandwidth either. It came in handy. |
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NormanS
Premium,MVM
join:2001-02-14
San Jose, CA
·Pacific Bell - SBC
1 edit | said by Crookshanks :said by NormanS :You can't download any faster than the other end can upload; most of my downloads moved about as fast on cable as on 3Mb DSL. Then that's a problem with Comcast because I had no problem pegging my Roadrunner Turbo connection (8MBits) when I had it. No. It was a problem with the torrents. Some of the anime shows I grab are not highly popular, and don't have well-seeded trackers. You can't pull more data than the other end will push. Period. I don't see paying for download speed I won't be able to use because the sources can't fill the pipe.
BTW, just to be sure it was the trackers, and not the ISP, I downloaded a Knoppix ISO image while there. That pegged my sister's download capacity. But how often does one need to download an OS ISO image? Slower is cheaper; and, for my budget, and needs, good enough.
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Norman
~Oh Lord, why have you come
~To Konnyu, with the Lion and the Drum |
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