<div dir="ltr">Incidentally, I placed an order for Comcast's 50 Mbps residential service just today. AT&T wanted a few dollars less for half the speed and had no higher speed offerings. I haven't heard anyone offer local statistics on this tier, so I'll toss some over here when my service is active. I'm glad to see some vaguely modern speeds come to metro GR, even if they're just advertised values.<div>
<br></div><div>For what it's worth, U-Verse installation is completely free with most new customers, while Comcast wants $10 to mail a CD, $25 for 2 day shipping (I have a modem already.)<div><div><br></div><div style>
-Ben G.</div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 8:07 PM, Don Ellis <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:don.ellis@gmail.com" target="_blank">don.ellis@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 10:45 AM, Bob Kline <<a href="mailto:bob.kline@gmail.com">bob.kline@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
> On Tue, Apr 23, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Adam Tauno Williams<br>
> <<a href="mailto:awilliam@whitemice.org">awilliam@whitemice.org</a>> wrote:<br>
>><br>
>> On Tue, 2013-04-23 at 10:40 -0400, Brad DeVries wrote:<br>
<br>
</div><div class="im">...<br>
<br>
>> If you're comfortable with your network's performance - then it has<br>
>> enough 'speed'.<br>
>><br>
> Uhm, ya, but one has to put a label on it<br>
> when they order a service. "I just want a<br>
> speed I'm comfortable with" doesn't help<br>
> a whole lot.<br>
<br>
</div>I ran a couple of the popular internet speed tests on a neighbor's<br>
Cricket connection, which indicated my neighbor wasn't getting<br>
anywhere near the 3Mbps speed advertised. My neighbors are comfortable<br>
with that, though I think they would be more comfortable with<br>
something closer to what they are paying for.<br>
<br>
I do believe that the speed tests perform a useful function, though<br>
not as much as we would like.<br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
--Don Ellis<br>
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