Comcast 250GB Cap Goes Live October 1 > Hmm....

Hmm....

We only have At&T or crappy cable internet available here. We have the elite 6meg dsl and I have yet to get above 5000 and they say that that is fast enough and don't worry about it, it's within their range of speed that they have to offer me. If you switch, I hope that you get faster speeds than me.

You maximum speed is only going to be about 5220kbps
What speeds are you getting?

reply to evgray
With overhead on at&t, the best speed you could hope for on a 6M down connection would be 5100.

reply to fatmanskinny
4900 down and usually 615 up. My speeds are usually consistent. We switched from a normal phone in house line to a dry loop and my speed went down. I did have 5200 all of the time. We have two lines into our house and when we switched, they moved our dsl to the other line and that is when the speed dropped.

reply to fatmanskinny
You don't really think AT&T isn't going to follow suit within 6 months?

If they do, then I guess it is back to dialup. If dialup does it, then I guess the Post Office will begin getting more of my money.
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reply to insomniac84
Real providers don't use the awful hack known as PPPoE.

reply to insomniac84
I don't understand why at&t doesn't compensate for overhead in it's stated speeds... just advertise it as 5.2Mbps.

reply to fatmanskinny
Cut off your nose much?

Nah, I just believe that the consumer must realize the power of their hard-earned (probably not in your case. lol) dollar.
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reply to jester121
yah it sounds like he is.

People are going over board on the caps. Especially if they are under the limit. The rule always applies though don't like it take your business else where. But if ATT, and VZ does it and you go to dial-up what's going to happen when you're limited to 150 or 200hours per month? ouch! didn't think of that did ya fatmanskinny? And yes most providers especially nationwide resell their access and limit the amount of hours one can get online with each account.

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reply to hottboiinnc
Unlimited on dialup is easy, since on the maximum achievable dialup speed you can only download 13gb/month in a 31 day month.

Also, time caps are only used by really crappy dialup companies, or companies that want you to move to something like DSL (Which is why Verizon does 300 hours a month).

Good providers like PeoplePC are unlimited.

Ok, what about sending mail through the Post Office?

reply to DrModem
The good people at PeoplePC are actually owned by Earthlink. What are you planning on doing if they actually close?

it's up to Elink to sell PeoplePC customers off as a whole or just leave you hanging. And as far as Elink and done so far they'll leave you hanging.

reply to insomniac84
I agree with insomniac cause I live less than 1000 ft from my CO

reply to fatmanskinny
Did you hear the price of a stamp is going up?

reply to Cabal
As crummy as PPPoE is, ATM overhead is the biggest culprit preventing him from getting his advertised speeds. At least Verizon over-caps to compensate for it.
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The area I was in while in school was ex-gte verizon. They gave you the sync rate that compensated for overhead, but in that area they used dhcp instead of pppoe. Speeds were actually higher than the advertised rate because of that.