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A week ago I moved into an apartment building in downtown San
Francisco that is served by RCN. I am told that fibre comes to the
building. I signed up for the Mach 7 service, which promises 7000Kbps
down/800Kbps up.

I am renting from RCN for $5/month a brand-new Toshiba PCX2600 cable
modem, and may buy at some point.

My experiences and thoughts:

* Just uploading, without downloading, on BitTorrent I was
  consistently able to hit 90KB/s or a shade below, not too far off
  the the 800Kbps promise.

* The best download speed I've seen so far is 440K/s from a
  SourceForge mirror. Interestingly, I've been only able to hit 300K/s
  at most from RCN's own FTP site.

* Although I don't need voice, it turned out that a package including
  voice will be the cheapest for me during the first six months. I had
  expected a Vonage-like VoIP adapter, but as it turns out the RJ11
  jacks in the walls are still used.

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Cpu(s): 11.5% us,  4.5% sy, 81.3% ni,  1.0% id,  1.5% wa,  0.2% hi,  0.0% si
Mem:    516036k total,   513024k used,     3012k free,     7348k buffers
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