Hooked on Speed

David Waldmann

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We've had DSL here in the boonies of Vermont for several years now and have been very pleased with it. However, a couple of days ago a guy in an unmarked van showed up and said he was a subcontractor for the local phone co and they were upgrading our service from "1 meg" to "24 meg" at no charge. He turned out to be legit, and as of this morning we now have BLAZING speed - tested at on MSN's speed test site at 3463.5 Kbps, or double a full T1!!!!

:D
 
So, now you should have no problem getting your jaws around the postman's ankle - whatcha' going to do once you got him?

Canton Joe
 
Great!!!! You get a double T1 and at home I'm lucky to get 28,800! Where in VT are you? I'd say email me some links to realtors but I think I could drive there faster than they'd download at home!

Congrats on the speed,
 
Congrats!

In most USA markets there is a price war. Recent download speed changes for most markets:

DSL went from 1.5 to 3.0 ($15/mo plan is under 1k/aimed at dialup market)
Cable went from 3.0 to 6.0 (15.0 optional for more $)
FiOS is available in 5.0, 15.0, and 30.0 flavors for a fair price.

The consumer wins!


Mike
 
I dumped a few of these....

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....in my motherboard, and it's speed increased dramatically! So much so that it now suffers from Pentium arrhythmia. A rare and often fatal disease brought on by too much speed! And the Fone lines literally burst with all the data!
 
Dave,

I think you were upgraded to 5 megabits. That's what I just got from Sprint and my MSN speed quick ckeck was 3073 kb/sec. I don't think any DSL service offers "24 megs" - 5 is very fast and, yes the upgrade was free plus 2 months $25 discount.

Pat :D
 
nah Pat, dave's right.. 5 megabits equates to only about 640 kb/sec. Don't forget the difference between bits and bytes (8 bits to a byte)..

So 5 megabits: = 2^20 * 5 = 5242880..
to get kilobytes take: 5242880 / 8(8 bits/byte) / 1024 (1k) = 640

24 megabit downloads computed this way makes 3072 kb/sec..

Data compression can add more to the mix (that's what some dialup services offer) but that is roughly the rule of thumb when determining your actual d/l speed..
 
Steve,

My typing - bits vs. bytes - don't know which. Speeds should all be referred to in the same units *bps. 3073kbps = 3.073mbps - a good throughput on a 5mbps service - you never get the full advertised speed in real life due to many factors. Sprint specifically refers to the service as 5mbps. I'm sure if it were 24mbps they would be bragging about it.

Pat :D
 
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