On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 12:58, Michael L Torrie wrote: > Are any of you thinking of ditching cable as well for this? I'm > interested in hearing any comments the uugers and pluggers have on this.
Comcast bumped up their limit to 3Mbps just after Qwest bumped theirs to 1.5Mbps. In either case you're being offered a "best effort", but this means different things in either case. For DSL it means that if your line isn't capable you won't get it, but they can offer you a lower rate (maybe). If it is capable you are guaranteed that amount of bandwidth from you to your ISP. For Cable it means that they'll tell you that's what you get and you might sometimes, but only if your neighbors are using DSL or only ever check their email and CNN.com. You are guaranteed to never have more than what they gave you, but you may have much less. ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
