Re: @home avg download speeds

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From: Scott Willsey
Date: Fri, 01 Sep 2000 01:27

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In article <xmBr5.116256$6y5.77660182@news2.rdc2.tx.home.com>, 
SFL@nospam.com crafted the following using only a keyboard and a 
mouse...

> 
> In CO, we are blessed with both offerings. However, US West/Quest has been
> unable to keep up with demand and their price structures for comparable
> cable modem speed would make it tough to afford execpt for the most avid
> internet junky. AT&T/TCI on the other hand, appears to have benefited from
> their sister company's growing pains in other regions and has done it right.
> From day one (going back to Jan, 99), I have had a total of 4 days outage
> (over two separate incidences) and it turned out that a damn squirrel chewed
> through my line to the hub on one of them. I have had solid bandwidth that
> averages out to over 1.2 mbps (400 kbps low, 2+ mbps high). Even during peak
> I am typically at 800 kbps.
> 
> At least for now it seems that cable modem in the Denver Metro area is
> winning the battle for the home user.
> 

Sounds exactly like the situation here in my part of Oregon with 
AT&T@Home vs. the phone companies (GTE/Verizon and US West/Qwest).

Scott
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