iansltx
join:2007-02-19
Golden, CO
kudos:2 Reviews:
 ·Comcast
| reply to cypherstream
Re: Only 20mbps? Short answer: why compete when you don't have to?
Long answer: SL seems to be trying to allow for a lot of overhead on their tiers, so they don't have to sink money into node splits etc. to provide service. If you have 1000 people on a single cable node, there's no way you can ever hope to push 20 Mbps on a single DOCSIS channel. So while 20 Mbps is a conservative number, their network probably can't handle much more than that.
The real kicker here though is the upload: 1 Mbps. Granted, this is better than 768k, but I think SL will have a hard time when Clear WiMAX comes in with that same upload speed on a $35 or $45 package. Suddenlink has tended to be rather ridiculous with low upload speeds though, so this is the rule, not the exception; in some areas (where 8 Mbit or 10 Mbit internet is the fastest tier) residential tiers max out at 512kbps on the upload side. |
