High Speed Internet Providers

[gaf at blu.org (Jerry Feldman)]

As DSL starts to arrive in the area for personal subscribers, it would be
nice to have ongoing discussions about the different services. 
One of the marketing ploys used by DSL vendors is guaranteed bandwidth
where Cable Modem service is a shared bandwidth. I maintain that once it
gets to the ISP, it's all shared on the ISP's backbone. All the tests I
have run on my system to Mediaone, I have always been able to measure
about 1.5Mbps download from M1X sites, with about 250-300Kbps upload. My
wife recently was experiencing a problem uploading (eg. 50Kbps or less).
I rebooted her cable modem and we were able to get just under 300Kbps
uploading a jpeg to the web server. 

Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
Boston Linux and Unix
http://www.blu.org

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