toddr7
join:2000-12-29
American Fork, UT
|  This does sound very interesting, and I live in the test market as well. Switchpoint (www.airswitch.com) is a local Utah ISP that uses unique technology to tap a synchronous 100 Mbit ethernet connection directly into their fiber backbone without signal loss. (!) I just got it installed, finally, last week, and it is EXTREMELY fast--I have seen d/l speeds as high as 47 Mbit so far (I d/loaded an 83 MByte file in 15 seconds!) Quite a change from dial-up, to say the least. The only (huge) problem is that you have to be fortunate enough to live near thier backbones--currently only available in Springville and American Fork, Utah. (Both towns are about 40 miles south of Salt Lake--I assume Yahoo was just using the nearest large city as a reference.) I will look into getting the Blockbuster service and will post the results if I become a test candidate. I don't think bandwidth will be a problem on my end, so it should be a pretty good test of their service, available quality, etc.
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