[GRLUG] comcast tiers (tears actually)

[Bob Kline]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:36 AM, Erik Southworth <erik.southworth at gmail.com
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> On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 11:19 AM, Adam Tauno Williams <
> awilliam at whitemice.org> wrote:
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>> > I know someone on the Hudsonville-Jenison
>> > line that has U-verse and really likes the
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>> My neighbor who has U-verse is happy.
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>> > 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.
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>> 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.
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>> I suppose it depends on what you do,  I just don't see the need for
>> sky-high link speeds.
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> Sprin/Clearwire has the contract to roll-out WiMax in GR. I don't know what
> the delay is...
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Maybe that GR, like much of MI, is broke?

I thought installation was supposed to start
a few years ago?  But that I remember it was
a 1Mbps down, 128Kbps up, system.  Nothing
special, but competition of a sort.

    -- Bob


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