[GRLUG] anyone else seeing crazy speeds from Comcast?

[Professor Inuyasha]

On Sat, Aug 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, john-thomas richards <jtr at jrichards.org> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 10:35:01AM -0400, Rich Nagel wrote:
>> From: "john-thomas richards" <jtr at jrichards.org>
>> > This morning I am getting amazing speed from Comcast.  My download
>> > speed is 12,640kbps and upload is 1,827kbps.  See here:
>> > http://www.speedtest.net/result/306938487.png.
>> >
>> > Man, oh, man, I hope this continues.  I wonder if Comcast is feeling
>> > much pressure from AT&T's U-Verse service.  I have had a number of
>> > sales reps knock on my door about it.
>>
>> Since I have AT&T's 6mb DSL, I can't comment on what Comcast may be
>> currently doing.  But I too have been getting a bunch of advertising about
>> AT&Ts "U-Verse" but it's still not available in my area. :(
>>
>> As for Comcast, I had them years ago, but had to ditch it, because latency
>> was such a problem.  Web-surfing and downloads may be fine with a latency of
>> 300 to 500 ms, but trying to VPN into the office for on-call support is not!
>
> AT&T has a 6mb DSL?  Wow.  How much are you paying?  What is the upload
> speed?

$80 for 300 channels, unlimited minutes phone, 6Mb/s DL \ 1Mb/s UL


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