Subj : Re: Off-topic a bit
To   : Peter Knapper
From : Richard Steiner
Date : Sun May 15 2005 07:25 am

-=> PETER KNAPPER wrote to SEAN DENNIS <=-

 PK> One other thing that I noticed with USA Cable/DSL provisioning,
 PK> the "speeds" that are quoted may be why the end user is not
 PK> always happy, it seems (to me) that the end user is often quoted
 PK> the ACTUAL line speed, which is NEVER attainable by the end user.

That was certainly true with the TimeWarner RoadRunner connection I had
for three years in the Minneapolis/St. Paul area (I could obtain a
total throughput of around 2 Mbit/second if I used several concurrent
connections, which was much better than my old 640Kbit/252Kbit RADLS
connection, but it was rare for me to see individual xfers faster than
70KBytes/second, and sometimes at night things really slowed down.

It was fairly reliable, though.

The Charter Cable connection I have down here in Georgia is different
in terms of speed -- I regularly see ftp and http transfers in the
250-300KByte/second range (I think they claim a 3Mbit connection).

My USWest/Qwest 640Kbit/252Kbit DSL connection gave me very consistent
65KByte transfers also, subject at times to server congestion.

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