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On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 20:49:33 GMT, AZ Nomad <aznomad@PmunOgeBOX.com> wrote:


>On Wed, 16 Nov 2005 18:33:41 +0000 (UTC), desertrat <desertrat@nospam.com> wrote:


>>Can any share their opinions on comcast for high speed internet?
>>Compared to cox or others?

>>Their webpage is very privacy invasive requring cookies and javascript
>>and they do not give prices until you give your address. Already I have
>>a bad impression. 

>works fine.  Keep in mind that cable internet is a party line.  Traffic
>out on the cble is visible to your neighbors and visa versa.  The more
>neighbors you have on the line, the less your available bandwidth.

>I'm paying the extra $20 for the higher speed version.  I routinely get 
>over a MB/second.  Compare that to DSL's top speed of about .15MB/s.
>Upload speeds suck however;  standard cable internet is 128Kb/s or 16KB/s.
>(b=bit; B=byte)  The higher speed version is good for upload speeds of
>1024Kb/s (128KB/s)

oops;  the above coments were for cox.  When I had comcast in denver, it
was similar except that there was no higher speed version.