 Ebolla
join:2005-09-28
Dracut, MA | reply to battleop
Re: Now this... How is "twice as fast as DSL" misleading if it is comparing 3.0meg cable internet to 1.5DSL. In this area when Comcast had a 3.0 connection most DSL connections didnt even break 1meg. Comcast doubled it to 6meg a few years ago, DSL didnt. Recently the Comcast service in this area has been upped to 12meg, DSL isn't at a 6meg in this area. In this area the "twice as fast" was incorrect only in the fact that it was MORE then 2x the speed for the average connections. |
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| It's very misleading. 3Mb DSL has been widely available in my market for a long time. Comcast ran the "Twice as fast as DSL" when they only offered 1.5Mb Cable and compared it to 768k DSL. At the time you could only get 1.5Mb DSL and DSL Lite was not a product. Then when 3Mb DSL became available they changed the fine print to 3Mb Cable vs. 1.5Mb DSL. Then when 6Mb DSL became available they changed to 8Mb Cable vs 3Mb DSL. |
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RadioDoc58ef2c0Premium,ExMod 2000-03
join:2000-05-11 | reply to Ebolla
Comcast still does it here. On this system they can't do more than six megs. AT&T DSL is six megs. Comcast's printed advertising material compares their service to 768k DSL.
But when Comcast is hawking their $29 HSI offering it is 768k.
But they know nobody reads the fine print, and Comcast's is at the lower limit of the printer's ability to print it. |
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