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Article #231Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: John Higdon
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:14
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 19:14
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In article <Xns9D4099418CB69thisnthatroadrunnern@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: > 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. > 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. -- John Higdon +1 408 ANdrews 6-4400 AT&T-Free At Last
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