[GRLUG] comcast tiers (tears actually)

[Adam Tauno Williams]

> I know someone on the Hudsonville-Jenison
> line that has U-verse and really likes the 

My neighbor who has U-verse is happy.

> package.  My impression is that the Internet
> bandwidth is not all that high, but that the
> package of TV, Internet, phone, etc., works
> very well.

I think the base speed is 3MBps (twice what I have now).  But, IMO, if
you aren't running services [which is forbidden anyway] speeds upwards
of 3MBps are pretty pointless.  At home I'm on a T1 speed business-class
DSL right now and don't have any complaints at all.  At work we have a
fiber connection to our ISP and just about every upstream site throttles
[on purpose or not] big transfers to something around ~3MBps anyway.
The only time it goes faster is when pulling an ISO from a big mirror.
Web surfing is much faster [fiber vs. DSL] if I look at the numbers but
I honestly can't feel the difference.

I suppose it depends on what you do,  I just don't see the need for
sky-high link speeds.