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From: DanS on 19 Mar 2010 18:20 John Higdon <higgy(a)kome.com> wrote in news:higgy-5FC0E6.12143119032010(a)news.announcetech.com: > In article > <Xns9D4099418CB69thisnthatroadrunnern(a)216.196.97.131>, > DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote: > >> I get full saturation of 10 mbps d/l speeds from >> Time/Warner in a suburb of Buffalo, NY when using two d/l >> threads from Giganews. Using any more d/l threads is a >> waste, as more threads don't come down any faster. > > Aren't you fortunate? > This is the Bay Area. Note the "ba" > in the newsgroup name. We don't have such service here. We > don't have anything close. Comcast advertises "15Mbps" > connectivity, but what it really is amounts to this: you > get 15Mbps burst speed for the first five to ten megabytes > of a file download. After that, it drops to something like > 3Mbps. You have to read the fine print to find that out. Actually, the fine print calls that Powerboost, and it is supposed to about double your d/l bandwidth for the first x amount of the file, and then after that, drop down to your advertised/paid for speed. The page said if you have 6mb, you'll powerboost to 12, or 10 will powersboost to 20. Others also said the cable system there is antiquated and in need of rebuilding. >> From home, when I do a bandwidth test from a T/W server, >> 'in network', the d/l results are usually over 20mbps. But >> real life is choked down to 10mbps. > > I'm so happy for you. Be glad you don't live in Silicon > Valley. Yeah, well.....high-speed internet does not an area make.
From: John Higdon on 19 Mar 2010 18:27 In article <3mt7q5dca1f6smtjb0bdhopiuc9iq4ajcq(a)4ax.com>, Char Jackson <none(a)none.invalid> wrote: > I've been using Vonage over Comcast since late 2005, and I know of > quite a few others who are using 3rd party VoIP services over Comcast > without any issues. What were you doing that you found it nearly > impossible to get VoIP to work? Feel free to drop into the .comcast > newsgroup if you need help. I use ulaw and frequently have four or five channels active. Works fine over Speakeasy DSL, but over Comcast everything breaks up and falls apart, particularly with multiple channels active. I'm told by those whose opinion I trust that "Comcast business" seems to work OK. But this brings us back to wondering why there's a distinction between business service and consumer service Internet. I thought we were past that artificial distinction by now. I recall the days when the only difference between residential and business telephone service was the price. I'm not willing to carry that nonsense over to the Internet. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
From: John Higdon on 19 Mar 2010 18:29 In article <Xns9D40BA85C1947thisnthatroadrunnern(a)216.196.97.131>, DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t(a)r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote: > Yeah, well.....high-speed internet does not an area make. Indeed. You get to live in a nice place AND get decent Internet! Getting first-world Internet probably wouldn't make this a better place to live in any significant way. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
From: George on 19 Mar 2010 18:39 On 3/19/2010 3:09 PM, John Higdon wrote: > In article > <epmdnat677w8VT7WnZ2dnUVZ_h2dnZ2d(a)posted.southvalleyinternet>, > Roy<aa4re(a)aa4re.ampr.org> wrote: > >> People always seem to want the government to provide some great benefit >> as long as someone else pays for it. > > I never said I wanted something for free. I just don't understand why if > I want the same level of Internet service at home that my friends in > other countries get, I have to become a CLEC or trench fiber optic > circuits from MaeWest to my home. Sure, I could set up a microwave link > from one of my clients and make an arrangement to get Internet from > them...but that is hardly "easy availability of broadband". > Because you are overlooking the main thing that differentiates us and practically everyone else. We have urban sprawl. It sounds like you may live some distance from existing plant. Would you be willing to pay for the excess cost to deliver service to widely spaced out homes as compared to homes that are sited like your friends in other countries?
From: John Higdon on 19 Mar 2010 19:04
In article <ho0uf2$cr2$1(a)news.eternal-september.org>, George <george(a)nospam.invalid> wrote: > Because you are overlooking the main thing that differentiates us and > practically everyone else. We have urban sprawl. It sounds like you may > live some distance from existing plant. Would you be willing to pay for > the excess cost to deliver service to widely spaced out homes as > compared to homes that are sited like your friends in other countries? If it were necessary, yes. I think living in the center of a city of one million population is hardly having an issue with "urban sprawl". -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last |