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Darrell A. Larose (ad607@FreeNet.Carleton.CA) wrote:
: I may be me, but I thought that was the number be pushed in the magazines
: etc for cable. 

One of their cable modems can connect to their server at 500,000 bits/sec
if there's only one modem turned on at the time.  Rogers asks you to leave
your modem on at all times.  Their backbone is slow, too so even though
you have high internal bandwidth, you never see really spectaculat load
times.

: With your experience what is the real world speed for both
: up and down I figure the end user can't push stuff out as fast as it comes
: in. How is it with Com Overruns, I get quite a few of them using a 28.8
: dial-up 

check out the page http://home.rogerswave.ca/brussell

I know I telnetted to some chell accounts this summer (before several
recent upgrades and policy changes) and the turnaround was about 1/4 what
I was able to get by dialling in directly long distance with a 14.4

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