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Article #489Re: @home avg download speeds
From: Ron Hunter
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:34
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 22:34
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I think the question is whether one would rather share the 30mbps available bandwidth on the cable, or the available 0bps bandwidth available here on DSL. Not too difficult to work out in my case. Sigh. -- Ron Hunter rphunter@home.com Kevin wrote: > > enough of the shared bandwidth bullshit! > > check the ping times on DSL and Cable and you tell me which is faster?? > > For me it is cable > > "Hank Mishkoff" <Hank@AddisonWeb.com> wrote in message > news:0426843E64EE021B.8B9EAFA49A11AD1A.E86675C9889250A4@lp.airnews.net... > > > > Right, but they're implying that cable is *not* shared bandwidth, so > the ad is > > > > misleading, at best. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > No they aren't. > > > > The commercial basically says something like: You shouldn't believe the > > "high-bandwidth" claims of the phone company because it's *shared* > bandwidth -- so > > you should use AT&T Cable for Net access instead. (Obviously, that's not a > direct > > quote.) Are you saying that you don't feel that that statement contains an > > implication that AT&T Cable is *not* shared bandwidth? > > > >
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