[ale] Great News! We've doubled the speed of.....

[Jeff Hubbs]

I'm a Comcast broadband maggot^H^H^H^H^H^Hcustomer and they sent us an
e-mail saying that they were testing this "product" (code name for
"higher cap") in some areas.  Then, I was getting >250KB/s prolonged
blasts from ftp-linux.cc.gatech.edu and other places.  I guess it
matters most to Kazaa users, gamers, Gentoo installers, and distro
downloaders.  

Have a look at this - this just went by on the ssh session to KAGA, my
dual Pentium/133:

>>> emerge (1 of 72) sys-apps/modutils-2.4.25 to /
>>> Downloading
http://gentoo.noved.org//distfiles/modutils-2.4.25.tar.bz2
--09:18:31--  http://gentoo.noved.org//distfiles/modutils-2.4.25.tar.bz2
           => `/usr/portage/distfiles/modutils-2.4.25.tar.bz2'
Resolving gentoo.noved.org... done.
Connecting to gentoo.noved.org[69.2.197.241]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 220,530 [application/x-tar]

100%[====================================>] 220,530      263.28K/s    

Not bad.  Now, if I only had a static IP and permission to run servers.

- Jeff


On Tue, 2003-09-16 at 02:08, Jim Popovitch wrote:
> Came in the postal mail today.... 
> 
> --------------------------------
> Try new double-speed connections with Comcast High-Speed Internet.
> 
> We are pleased to inform you that Comcast plans to offer an Internet
> product with higher download speeds that the current 1.5Mbps service to
> which you now subscribe.  In preparation for this higher speed product,
> we will begin running tests to help us evaluate network capacity so we
> can continue to offer the highest possible download speeds for all
> users. During the test, your Comcast High-Speed Internet download speed
> will increase to 3Mbps, about twice as fast as your current download
> speeds.  Please understand that every user will not experience higher
> speeds at all times during this test.  You'll receive the upgrade
> automatically and at no additional cost over your current monthly
> service rate.  You do not need to download any software or make changes
> to your computer to take advantage of this increased speed.
> --------------------------------
> 
> Quite a nice surprise.  Thank you Comcast!
> 
> -Jim P.
> 
> 
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