[GRLUG] anyone else seeing crazy speeds from Comcast?

[john-thomas richards]

On Sat, Aug 09, 2008 at 11:18:49PM -0400, Professor Inuyasha wrote:
> 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

Thanks, but he has AT&T's DSL service, not U-Verse.
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john-thomas
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