[clug-talk] Shaw Xtreme-I Internet Service

[Jon Copeland]

Has anyone here on this mailing list tried out this service?  I'm 
curious as to how much of a speed increase it actually is over normal 
high speed internet.  They say it's a 5mbit down / 1mbit up connection 
but I was always under the impression that normal high speed was about 
10mbit down / +-768k up as I am able to download at about 900kbps 
(actually wouldn't that be close to a 100mbit connection?) on some local 
sites (such as shaw.ca itself) but on average I get 450-500kbps from 
places around Alberta such as from the Bioware FTP servers.

Now my question is this, isn't +-500kbps equal to 5mbit?  The way I've 
always worked it out is when I used to use 10mbit switches and when I 
copied files from one machine to the other I would watch the Local Area 
Connection properties and it would clearly show roughly 100k being 
copied every second and with 100mbit switches it was around 1 Megabyte 
per second, so that's how I've been working it out, so based on that 
shouldn't 5mbit be ALOT slower and only able to reach 50k per second in 
downloads / file transfers?

If anyone has used this service would you recommend it and is it noticeable?
-j-
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