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DaneJasper
Sonic.Net
Premium,VIP
join:2001-08-20
Santa Rosa, CA
clubs:
| 6Mbps DSL Everyone's been getting 6.0Mbps DSL too, with an upstream up to 608kbps - that beats any cable offering. Of course, you've got to be within 9500 feet to get it, and at that distance, sometimes it's still not possible.
I want my VDSL. =)
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EveryName
Wake Up
Premium
join:2001-12-05
Montreal | Re: 6Mbps DSL Actually, Cogeco also offers a 10Mbit/1Mbit package.
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join:2003-08-15
Clarksville, TN | and OOL also offers 10mbps/1mbps | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ
| Re: 6Mbps DSL said by bobburn  :
and OOL also offers 10mbps/1mbps
yeah but unlike OOL i bet cogeco doesnt remove 85% of the users upload bandwidth for using a fair amount of upload bandwidth. of course OOL doesnt have any download bytecaps(yet).
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What? You Say It's Fixed. Hah
join:2001-11-29
Cyberspace | Re: 6Mbps DSL
Comcast HN gives you 4000/384 | |
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join:2003-12-23
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: 6Mbps DSL said by systems2000 :
Comcast HN gives you 4000/384
384k upload for 80 a month sucks big time!
Hell, 3000/256 is 57.95 a month w/out cable service WTF?????????? | |
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What? You Say It's Fixed. Hah
join:2001-11-29
Cyberspace
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| Re: 6Mbps DSL
Calm down there. I never said it was a good package. I was just pointing out that there is another package from Comcast other than the 3000/256. The real cost for 3000/256 is $60.95/Month with the Gateway rental charge added in.
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EveryName
Wake Up
Premium
join:2001-12-05
Montreal | Well Cogeco is a Canadian company, so you would only be able to get it in Canada.
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SkylineGTR34
join:2001-06-05
Schaumburg, IL | DaneJasper your stupid, you'll never see a DSL ISP offering 6mbs line to people who are more then 3000 feet away, you'll lose sync constantly, keep dreaming, Cable is going to smoke DSL everywhich way. | |
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dadkins
Can you do Blu?
Premium,MVM
join:2003-09-26
Hercules, CA | 3.3 is fine for downstream Lets see some Upstream increases, 256k is just not enough. | |
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Jason Levine
Premium
join:2001-07-13
USA | Re: Who Cares? I agree. I really don't need the extra 3.5Mbps as much as I could use the extra $20 a month in my pocket. | |
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What? You Say It's Fixed. Hah
join:2001-11-29
Cyberspace
·Embarq
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You xDSL subscribers must not realize that most Broadband subscribers are hard pressed to get those kind of packages. Cable doesn't offer them and xDSL (if you can get it) has a distance limitation and you only get those numbers if you are close to the C.O.
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digiblur
Got Sipura?
Premium
join:2002-06-03
Louisiana
| Same caps? Faster speed with the same caps? Cool! People can hit their caps quicker! Instead of taking 3 weeks to hit the cap it will only take a week and half.  | |
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EveryName
Wake Up
Premium
join:2001-12-05
Montreal | Re: Same caps? I think of it as less time wasted. Get it all done at once.
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join:2004-02-06
Branchville, NJ | Re: Same caps? Yea i see it as instead of waiting 5 mintues for a file u only gotta wait 3 mintues | |
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join:2002-03-07
Constantine, MI
| said by EveryName :
I think of it as less time wasted. Get it all done at once.
Yeah I mean why wait to the end of the month to get capped when you can do it in a week? | |
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join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON
2 edits | Re: Same caps? yeah. if the country i lived in (usa) had lower speeds for more money than a country i thought was second-rate to mine (canada) i'd probably be whining and complaining too. | |
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join:2002-03-07
Constantine, MI
| Re: Same caps? said by Roop :
yeah. if the country i lived in (usa) had lower speeds for more money than a country i thought was second-rate to mine (canada) i'd probably be whining and complaining too.
WTF? When did I ever say Canada was second rate? | |
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join:2003-11-15
Ottawa, ON | Re: Same caps? thank you djrobx. that was spoken like someone who isn't blinded by emotions or smoking crack. good day to you. | |
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join:2004-02-06
Branchville, NJ | Re: Same caps? I don't understand.
Just because there are higher caps dosent mean u have to download more. I mean what is the average cap 20 gbs What are you downloading that is 20 gb. I have never used 20 gb in a month | |
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JohnInSJ
Premium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA
 ·Comcast
1 edit | Re: Same caps? said by davidcb13 :
I don't understand.
Just because there are higher caps dosent mean u have to download more. I mean what is the average cap 20 gbs What are you downloading that is 20 gb. I have never used 20 gb in a month
"640kb is more than enough memory for every PC user" - sound familiar?
20gb - let's say you're downloading ISO images for linux, evaluating distros. Go ahead and toss in a Debain net-install for fun. Assuming 3 ISOs for each distro, you're looking at 2.1-5gb per distro. Cool, you can download 8 distros. Let's set aside 2gb for surfing & email. 7 distros. Let's set aside 1gb for streaming media. 6 distros. Let's do a windows update too - 1gb (we've been lazy!) now down to 5-6 distros. Let's send some photos to grandma - 1gb, etc, etc.
It's easy to burn bandwidth if you've got it, and it's fast. It's easy to do it legally.
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EveryName
Wake Up
Premium
join:2001-12-05
Montreal | Re: Same caps? WOW! What kind of photos are you sending grandma that are 1GB? 
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JohnInSJ
Premium
join:2003-09-22
San Jose, CA | Re: Same caps? quote:
Most people resize their images.
If you have a fast pipe an no cap, why do that? | |
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Premium
join:2003-08-06
Farmington, MI
| Re: Same caps? I'm going to jump in and agree with John here. If you have the pipe, why not send higher quality images? Isn't that what it's there for? Also, 20GB is very easy to burn through. I intalled MRTG on my router and found that it only took one major download and some casual surfing to hit 20GB.
Now add in some VOIP, sending some videos to friends, a little newsgroup pillaging or filesharing, my family surfing, and 40-50GB/mo is at your door step. | |
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Thomas C S
@adsl.bellatla | Re: Same caps? hehehe.
My film scans(Nikon SuperCoolscan 9000ED)are closer to 75 megabytes.
Grandma would kill me after forty pics | |
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dvd536
as Mr. Pink as they come
Premium
join:2001-04-27
Phoenix, AZ | When you start grabbing dvdr images at 4+ gb per title it doesnt take long to chew thru 20 gigs.
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EveryName
Wake Up
Premium
join:2001-12-05
Montreal
·Shaw
| Re: Same caps? said by dvd536 :
When you start grabbing dvdr images at 4+ gb per title it doesnt take long to chew thru 20 gigs.
This doesn't have anything to do with a speed increase. Either way, if you're doing that... you'll go over your bandwidth limit.
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Ark
join:2002-06-08
Hudsonville, MI | Re: Same caps? Um, *most* people measure bits with kilo = 1000 and bytes with kilo = 1024
256kbit/s is and always has been 256000bit/sec | |
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my3cents
@sympatico.ca
| the only way your gaining anything is if you actually sit in front of your pc and wait for the dl to complete. for 39.95 canadian dollars i get 3008/800 connection. e months ago it was a 1728/384 connection for the same money.
let the cable and dsl companies bash each other over the head with the speed issue it all works out for the consumer.
a canadian can only wonder how much money would be put aside for upgrades if they charged the canadian $$ rate of what the ppl in the usa are paying for broadband... | |
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join:2003-01-01
Hollywood, FL | LOL thats so true | |
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kennydillon
Premium
join:2002-06-09
Goddard, KS | Once Again Roadrunner......... Ok, Mr. Roadrunner guys, once again take note at the above article.
Thanks
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nasadude
join:2001-10-05
Rockville, MD
·Comcast
| how 'bout some more upload instead? If all comcast is going to do is increase download, 5M/256K isn't going to ring my bell at all. I could give a rat's @ss about more download - I want more upload. something like 3M/768K would be sweet.
5M/256K is not going to keep me from going to a 3M/512K (or something like that) DSL connection, especially when the DSL connection is cheaper. | |
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join:2004-02-06
Branchville, NJ | Re: how 'bout some more upload instead? maybe after the download race the "upload race" will begin | |
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scooputer
join:2002-08-08
Ogden, UT
| Who cares above 3Mbps Who cares about anything above 3Mbps download. If these companies truly want to compete, or provide what the consumers really want, then they should start increasing the upload speed. I will instantly move over to the first company that can provide at least 1Mbps upload. | |
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| blizzah
join:2004-01-23
Riverside, CA | Re: Who cares above 3Mbps to the person above, ever hear of quest? 1.5/1 for 39.99? | |
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| | batmanst
join:2003-12-23
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: Who cares above 3Mbps said by blizzah :
to the person above, ever hear of quest? 1.5/1 for 39.99?
fyi, that's qwest not quest! 896k upload is nice but 1.5 download still sucks! I rather 3000kbps/512kbps or 6000kbps/896kbps | |
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| Romeo4
join:2002-02-09
Vancouver, BC | Shaw does »www.shaw.ca (The Extreme is $10 more but 5000/1000)
-Romeo | |
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rickten
join:2002-03-09
Davis, CA
| Stability Personally I would like to see less packet loss and sub 20ms ping times from west coast to east coast or vica versa. I could care less about adding more speed. I only have 384kbps of download right now. Yes it is slow when I want to download large files but the majority of the time I'm simply surfing the web or playing online games and to make those two things snappy I need low pings. BRING ON MORE ROBUST NETWORKS. | |
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Mad_Hatter156
@telus.net | Been there This is halarious watching US playing catch up. I've seen 5000/1500 cable up here in Canada since 1999-2000 for cheap. | |
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kennydillon
Premium
join:2002-06-09
Goddard, KS | Re: Been there But the US is always behind on the technology! | |
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join:2003-12-23
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: Been there NO, they are just cheap mofu! they can provide 8mb/1mb on dsl or at least 10mb/2mb on cable but they rather continue to be stingy indefinitely until the rest of the world is so far ahead that they would just raise it a little.
2mb/384k to 3mb/384 TWC/RR is still shit!
1.8mb/128k to 3mb/256k comcast is still shit!
1500/256 to 3000/384 SBC is still shit!
1500/256 to 3000/384 BS is still shit!
We're really are behind the time and this puny increase is still far below what the technology can deliver!!!
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silicon dog
join:2003-01-01
O Fallon, MO
| mmmm i would like to know exactly were anyone is getting 6 meg down from any ONE source at a time..ive yet to see it..usually takes me four or five to even max out my 3 meg down unless its from some big commercial site that doesn't have crap i want anyhow..just my two and a half cents.. | |
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join:2003-12-23
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: mmmm said by silicon dog :
i would like to know exactly were anyone is getting 6 meg down from any ONE source at a time..ive yet to see it..usually takes me four or five to even max out my 3 meg down unless its from some big commercial site that doesn't have crap i want anyhow..just my two and a half cents..
6000kbps is quite useless w/out at least a 1mbps on uploads, its not the download that we're all complaining about, its that stingy upload of 256-384kbps that they like to call it standard! | |
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join:2003-01-01
O Fallon, MO | Re: mmmm exactly...my 256 is sloooooooooooow...the 1.5 up/down service that a local wireless provider offers is tempting but the price is kinda high if you ask me..95 a month.. | |
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join:2003-12-23
Beverly Hills, CA
| Re: mmmm said by silicon dog :
exactly...my 256 is sloooooooooooow...the 1.5 up/down service that a local wireless provider offers is tempting but the price is kinda high if you ask me..95 a month..
slow upload = control you like a bitch, lmao.
blame it on the politician, the government and the anti-piracy act of 2000 called "DMCA" (digital millenium copyright act) until we get the rights to do as we pleases with our connection, speed especially on the upload will be pisspoor indefinitely. | |
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the_buz
join:2004-02-15
Yorba Linda, CA
| That's a pretty good price. If I wanted to even upgrade to 512k upload through Adelphia, it will cost me nearly $80 a month. So I see getting 3x my upload for only $90 a month is fairly reasonable.
I look forward to the day where I can run dedicated game servers. As of now, I am only able to host 4 game max servers (without bots) on a 256k upload connection with decent pings. Any more... let's just say it takes a turn for the worse. | |
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IGGY
No Guru Just Here To Help
Premium,MVM
join:2001-03-30
Chatham, IL |  Blame Canada
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