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Started by Yeechang Lee
Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:50
First thoughts on RCN San Francisco broadband
Author: Yeechang Lee
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:50
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 18:50
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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. -- Read my Deep Thoughts @ <URL:http://www.ylee.org/blog/> PERTH ----> * 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 Swap: 2101032k total, 14448k used, 2086584k free, 179252k cached
Re: First thoughts on RCN San Francisco broadband
Author: Phil Stripling
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:33
Date: Mon, 08 Nov 2004 19:33
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Yeechang Lee <ylee@pobox.com> 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 >SNIP< > * 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. I had RCN at an apartment I used to live in. Telephone was regular old telephone, with the internet access via cable. We got the whole package: telephone, cable TV, and internet via cable modem. I was satisfied with all the services. There was a gitch or two with installation, but they squared it away. There were occasional glitches with service (seems our external connections at the apartment weren't waterproof among other problems), but they got everything fixed and in satisfactory condition promptly. -- Phil Stripling | email to the replyto address is presumed The Civilized Explorer | spam and read later. email to philip@ http://www.cieux.com/ | my domain is read daily.
Re: First thoughts on RCN San Francisco broadband
Author: Philip J. Koenig
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:59
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 03:59
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(Hmm... my first attempt at a followup failed mysteriously, please excuse if 2 posts show up) 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. -- * Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which * * differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are * * even incapable of forming such opinions. -- Albert Einstein * * * * To send email, remove numbers and spaces: pjkusenet64 @ ekahuna27 . com * * Simple answers are for simple minds. Try a new way of looking at things. *
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