On Fri, 2007-04-06 at 15:59 -0600, Dr. Scott S. Jones wrote: > > Comcast's extra bandwidth really is worthless, but more because it is so > > asymmetric. > > Pray tell, what specifically makes Comcast's bandwidth "worthless"? What is > then Worth MORE? At my office, I either have UTP or coaxial cable, provided > respectively by Qwest and Comcast. What other options do I have, that would > keep my broadband costs below $100.00 per month?
I should have said, for their non-business setups, the extra bandwidth is really worthless compared to, say a 1.5 Mb/s connection. This is because the upload speeds are a fraction of the download speeds. This really kills the bandwidth for a lot of things, and makes interactive things like ssh a lot less responsive. If you are saturating your upload bandwidth, which is about 256 Kb/s for home users, then your download is going to drop way down. Anyway, I'd rather have 1.5 up and 1.5 down than 7 down and 0.5 up. > > Isn't most of the 'Net access in the United States asymmetric, as opposed to > symmetric services seen in Europe and Asia? I have no idea. Probably to a point. The norm for dsl seems to be 1.5 Mb/s down, and 0.75-1 Mb/s up. > > > > /* > PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net > Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug > Don't fear the penguin. > */ > /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
