Verizon DSL vs Comcast Cable

[zcerza at coe.neu.edu (Zack Cerza)]

On Sat February 21 2004 16:21, David Kramer wrote:

> No, but they did recently DOUBLE my upstream and downstream speed for free.
>  I have about 1.5Mbs down now.  If you can consistently get that kind of
> speed out of your cablemodem you are exceptionally lucky.

Huh... cause Comcast gives me "3Mbps" down (real speeds between 200Ko/s and 
550Ko/s). My upstream is sadly something like 256Kb/s though. As for being 
server-friendly... well, I try to stay under the radar.

Pinging mit.edu gets me an average of 16ms, though there are 8 hops. Go 
figure.

Not that I *like* Comcast... but they do give me a decent-sized pipe.

Zack