[geeks] Time To Move...

Bill Bradford mrbill at mrbill.net
Tue Jul 20 08:42:08 CDT 2004


On Tue, Jul 20, 2004 at 08:00:39AM -0400, James wrote:
> I'm on cable modem service, which is a shared segment design (I compete for
> bandwidth on the wire with about 1000 other households). My low is 1.0
> megabit/sec and my high is 5 megabit/sec. The worse times are when the
> kiddies are home (3pm to 5pm and 7pm to 10pm). My uplink is capped at 256
> kilobit/sec. but at least it is consistent.

I have 6megabit/608kbps (max) DSL through SBC here in Austin.  Costs around
$45/month.  After PPPoE overhead, I get around 512 KBytes/56 KBytes down/up.

Bill

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bill bradford
austin texas



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