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Doug Lassiter wrote:
> 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.

It costs 10.00 more a month.  I get a constant 1.5Mb/s upstream.  I 
haven't tested the download speed as I hardly ever download anything at 
home.