On Mon, 4 Oct 1999, Denis Voitenko wrote:
> > 3) Here in Seattle, we have a dumb arbitrary 256k up/down limit--
> > does
>
> My [future] provider, Garden State Cable (New Jersey) promises speeds
> no less than 400k. In fact, my neighbour who got it last week never had
> anything less than 680k. So I do not think I'll be complaining.
BTW, there is a Cable-Modem miniHOWTO
(http://howto.linuxberg.com/LDP/HOWTO/mini/Cable-Modem.html) that has
sections for most providers, though local implementations can vary.
Still, a good starting point for configuration.
In Alexandria Virginia USA, both the up and downlink rates are currently
3Mbps (it's a fiber network). However, @Home is putting in uplink limits
(128Kbps, I believe) in their service areas to reserve bandwidth for
shared network residential use. They do not permit Internet server
applications (the big reason I didn't join up, I was planning to run a web
server). My parents use it with Win95, and I've found the actual downloads
do approach 3 Mbps. Very nice.
Geof Goodrum
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