[ale] 10M service

[KingBahamut]

Charter offering 10M , means comcast isnt far away.

I imagine they are trying to keep up with the threat of Data over
powerlines, which I hear the bandwidth there is tremendous.


On 5/25/06, James P. Kinney III <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 22:10 -0400, Scott Castaline wrote:
> > 10Mb/s service is now available on Charter broadband. I'm on a 30 day
> > trial, as of yesterday. First one in Ga. to get it.
>
> So the pr0n should look smooth. Hows does CNN load in?
>
> :)
>
>
> Seriously, a 10Mb input pipe is nearly useless as all the big providers
> that have a bigger pipe throttle connections to avoid overloading data
> suckers. Having multiple people behind your cable modem hitting
> different sites would let the big sites load out full speed and still
> saturate the smaller sites. So how fast does /. load in now? Or better,
> a distro CD iso from a high-speed source (not GaTech. They throttle
> pretty hard for off campus).
>
> <to the tune of "Money for Nothing" Dire Straits>
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