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On Jul 23, 10:38 am, Doug McLaren <dougmc+use...@frenzied.us> wrote:
> On 2008-07-22, Doug Lassiter <dlas...@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> | So what's this RR "turbo" package? Speed "bursts" to 22Mbps down,
> | 2Mbps up, they say.  OK, as in for one millisecond, or for a hundred
> | seconds? What is a "burst", and what do bursts do for me?
>
> The web page said as the network permits.  Probably it means that
> things are fast as long as the overall network utilization is lower
> than X%, but you lose your burst speed when it goes over that
> watermark.  It's not clear what your speed drops to in that case -- to
> the standard speed?  Lower?
>
> | Also, how much does it cost? The RR website seems not to want to
> | quote a price
>
> You noticed that too?  It doesn't seem to quote any prices, beyond the
> discount price for the bundles ...
>
> | Yeah, I suppose it's mainly for gaming
>
> Probably not.  Gaming certainly doesn't need 22 Mbps down.  Most
> (client) gaming would probably work OK over an ISDN line, and
> certainly with 512 Kbps or so.
>
> Who would benefit from this?  People who want to move large files, up
> and down, fast.
>
> --
> Doug McLaren, dou...@frenzied.us                                 We get signal

Thanks.

But I guess people who want to move large files up and down fast would
have to assume that they'd get their "burst" speed for a substantial
piece of time. You would think that in marketing this feature,
consumers would be given some reassurance of what data rates they'd be
getting. (Which is, in some sense, contradictory to the whole cable
experience, in which rates depend on local traffic.) That is, in what
would be a minute-long download, getting a burst speed for one second
wouldn't do me much good.

So what they're doing is making the speed cap higher. But that doesn't
cleanly translate into performance any more than a speed limit sign at
rush hour translates into mobility.

But again, how do you know you're getting value out of it? If you buy
it, and your overall speeds go up a notch, it could be because the
local traffic just happened to go down a notch. It would be
interesting to hear fromm someone who did it.