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Article #239Re: FCC Broadband Proposal: too little, too late, too timid
From: DanS
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:20
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 22:20
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John Higdon <higgy@kome.com> wrote in news:higgy-5FC0E6.12143119032010@news.announcetech.com: > 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. 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.
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