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Ulmo
join:2005-09-22
San Jose, CA Reviews:
 ·SONIC.NET
| Great compared to years ago, but lacking today. I'm at the tail end of being an early adopter of Comcast's Extreme, 50mbits/s inbound, 10 mbits/s outbound. I like it. It makes operating system and program and computer upgrades painless ... "Click", "Click", "Click", rather than download scheduling like before. The only slowdowns are when there's a bug somewhere, not in the Internet any more.
Sometimes I see gigabyte files come in at >5 megabytes a second. It's nice. Those I have to wait for, though --- definately more than a few seconds. Like in the three to four minute range! So not everything is instant.
But it all goes MUCH smoother than with the bottlenecked network the way it was before. Even the "long", "big" files are only seconds and minutes away.
Even the slow servers with big big big files like Directv On Demand (which we use constantly -- to those who don't know, Directv On Demand uses an Internet connection, e.g., in our case, Comcast) come in reasonably, and since that platform has mid-transfer playback capability, it basically means within a few dozen seconds of ordering, you're watching it, no interruptions or stutters. Full high def content in perfect end-end digital clarity MPEG4 AVC. Only 720p, but that's our set, so it matches perfectly. As good as any video I've seen on my computer.
Anyway, my point is that 50mbit/s download and 10mbit/s upload is a nice fit. Emails out, files in -- it all works great.
I live in California. California is having lots of government problems -- overturning fiscal and social responsibility measures in courts (like not funding illegal aliens and the like), out-of-control spending by government for things like daycare for lower-class children and adults (aka schools and prisons) fueled greatly by the same thing those overturned measures would have corrected for, super-high taxes for successful people and businesses (over 75%), etc.., so they're trying to shove us out of the state pretty hard. But looking at that "greater better" place, the rest of the country, you find deadly high-frozen-day-count places with services like Mediacom that can't even offer more than a 20mbit/s inbound service at present. Yes, it's only one step behind Comcast, but that's behind California, not ahead of it, that we're talking here. Not much of an incentive! Is life really that good in the frozen floodplains that we can eschew modern life? Is that because they in the slower areas sit at the table together for dinner, whereas the status quo in California is trying to push family members away from structured responsibility to each other? Perhaps I'm not seeing the full picture here.
In our mired mess, we have nothing better to do but use the I'net, so it damned well better work nice. Is that it? Or is it just that Mediacom sucks? Does it really matter?
In no way do I mean all of Mediacom; I am referring to its administrative motivations, of course.
BTW, I've been pretty quiet about Comcast lately. I haven't had much time to come to DSL Reports to be mad about bad Internet, because that's not a problem I currently have. So I'll mention it -- Comcast has been doing OK lately, and that means a lot coming from me. | |
| They deinitely need to worry more about overloads instead of speed. In Indianapolis we get the speeds most of the time but afternoon/early evening is a nitemare. It is obviously an overload situation but they choose to ignore it. I am about to head to AT&T or Comcast business is available here. | |
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to Ulmo
Hmm, you could move to an area that's part of the markets Comcast has already wired with DOCSIS 3. Mostly on the east coast and in your area at this point, but if you like mountains Denver should get it any day now  | |
iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 | reply to bp23
Comcast business won't improve speeds over residential. You're still connected to the same node with the same cable. Have a friend in the Chicago area with Comcast biz class DOCSIS 3 and his node is overloaded. | |
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