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In article <slrncovfvb.76c.ylee@pobox.com>, ylee@pobox.com (Yeechang Lee) writes...
> 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.

[snip]

> * 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.


[snip]


There are not very many sites out there that will provide much faster
access than 440K/s, which is basically 2.3x T-1 speed.  If a site is
public and expecting to serve a significant amount of users, and
assuming they are on a fast enough pipe to begin with, it is generally
prudent to bandwidth-limit on a per-connection basis, or else continuous
downloaders with such high-speed access can effectively lock out dozens
of others on slower connections, preventing them from getting successful
downloads.

FWIW - the people I know in SF who have RCN cable service are generally 
happy with it.



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