Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid

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From: DanS
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:03

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John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote in
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> In article
> <Xns9D404E5D5B49Ethisnthatroadrunnern@216.196.97.131>, 
>  DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m> wrote:
> 
>> Yeah, the 10 mbps d/l speeds I get aren't any better than
>> 56k dial-up.
> 
> Where on earth do you get 10mbps speeds? But yes, it does
> pale compared to the 100 mbps that my friends in Japan
> get...and pay less for it. 
> 

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.

This 10mbps from Giganews happens at any time of the day. There 
doesn't seem to be any other provider of anything that has the 
capability to send to me at that speed....or maybe more 
accurately, web pages are 'bursty' data, so it may be that fast, 
but for a very short time period. When d/l'g from Giganews, it 
is sustained at that level, for hours on end.

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.

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Subject: Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: DanS <t.h.i.s.n.t.h.a.t@r.o.a.d.r.u.n.n.e.r.c.o.m>
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