On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 11:37 PM, John Jason Jordan <[email protected]> wrote: > Comcast just raised my rates. The increase is trivial, but far more > annoying is that the service is decreasing. Six months ago > speedtest.net reported a high of 3 MB/s. Now it is just over 2 MB/s. > The new rate is 55.59/month, which includes 11.49 for basic TV. > > When I say "2 MB/s" I mean megabytes per second. That is, assuming the > server can feed me as fast as Comcast will let me download it, I can > download a full 700 MB Ubuntu live CD in about six minutes. > > I do not have wired home telephone service; that is, I discontinued the > land telephone a couple years ago since I never use anything but my > cell. I'm not very popular, so no one ever calls me anyway. > > Googling around leads me to a confusing bunch of options for DSL. I'd > pay more for faster speeds. Are there any options that are faster than > the 2 MB/s that Comcast is now giving me? > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug >
FWIW I'm paying 25 a month for 7Mbps DSL through Qwest. Drew- _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
