JesterJayJok
@sterlingnetwork.net
|  CableOne vs Qwest??
I currently have CableOne at the house and I can say as of so far, it has been doing fairly well. No issues really, until I got that promotional Qwest offer for 20 Mbps for 49 or 59.99 a month I believe. I was wondering about getting it since I have 8 Mbps with CO and pay like $59 a month and download with Megashares when I dl something and it goes like 683 KB/sec transfer rate when downloading, which I believe its the fastest I can get while downloading. So my question is, since I've experienced the cap with CO, would it better to switch to Qwest? Do they have caps as well, I do download and leave my computer sometimes. Anyone have any opinions or advice they could share with me? |
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Pashune
Inhaling at 675 KB per sec.
Premium
join:2006-04-14
Gautier, MS
 ·CableOne
 ·AT&T Southeast
1 edit | Many sites are rate limited on speeds, especially free ones where you're allowed to upload files (Rapidshare, megaupload, etc.); could you post a few speedtest samples?
If it helps at all, I'm getting 675 KB/Sec with CableOne.
But with 20 mbps, you should see speeds of much more than 675 kb/sec, especially on speedtests.
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ISP: CableOne 5 mbit/500 kbit |
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areoh
join:2001-11-10
Sioux City, IA
| reply to JesterJayJok
Just upgrade to the 10 Meg package and get less cap fussing, higher top speeds, and hopefully at $10 discount.
And/or...
Get Qwest for a month for a trial but keep CO and compare.
What you REALLY need to do is find a source that will max out your bandwidth so you can really tell if you're getting what you pay for. Eg, 10 connections to a usenet server downloading a pack of files. |
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