Would you mind telling us what the 50 meg service costs?-Ben Zion Hershberg On Dec 6, 2010, at 9:56 AM, John Robinson wrote:
> Insight has just left, the Apple Airport Extreme handles this fantastically, > but I did have a question answered that has always bothered me. I had > wondered if my download speed was 10 meg, or 20 would I really be getting the > full usage for unless the site I visited had an UPLOAD speed close to my > download speed then I was not going to get the benefit of the higher speed? > > Today I found that was true. This weekend we took the grandchildren to the > Polar Express train ride in French Lick. I took a high def. camera and > videoed much of the trip, taking over 30 min. at least. I put it together in > a 5.5 min. movie last night and sent to all the children. The file was 505 > meg and I had to use YouSend it to send that large a file. > > I was noticing that the upload speed was hovering around the 1.3 that Insight > offers with the 20 meg. I sent myself a copy of the video so I could > download it this morning to test the 50 meg. The best I was getting was 4.3 > down, even though I could take 50. I did this with the tech guy still here > and my question for all these years was answered. I AM only going to get > what the site I go to will upload. Makes sense. So where the 50 really > helps is downloading multiple items at the same time, I would be able to get > THEIR maximum output on each of the downloads until I reached the 50 max. > > Hmmmmm, lots of idle time for the downloads until these vendors increase > their upload speeds. > > He also said that by next year they will offer fiber to the home, with 100 > meg download speeds. Once in the home they will offer to install the fiber > to the various rooms, but for a home like I have they can't for there isn't > an exposed beam anywhere other than the furnace room. The NEXT thing they > will offer in a couple years or so will be fiber to their router, that that > uses wireless to send the very high speeds throughout the house, hope Apple > is ready for this one when it gets here. > > He said that with my Apple TV I would notice a difference in the downloads (I > guess, if Apple can push more than 1 or 2 meg download speeds) and he said > the gamers love the 50, but I am not a gamer. > > I tested the speed with Speedtest.net and sure enough I am hitting right at > 50 down and 5.2 up. At least when I am sending a large file I will notice a > difference because I am the one with the faster upload speed. > > John > > > > _______________________________________________ > MacGroup mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.math.louisville.edu/mailman/listinfo/macgroup
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