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On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 15:07:35 -0600, justsomedude <dude@aol.com> wrote:

>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.

Unbeknownst to me, my wife got this option recently.  I tested
transfer of files from my home to shop through my remote control NetOp
software.  The speed was about double.  If I get the same option at
the shop my remote control should be significantly faster as it is the
upload speeds that hold it back.

Don
www.donsautomotive.com