[ale] 10M service

[Scott Castaline]

Not sure which mirror I was using but downloaded Ubuntu ISO in under 10
minmin. Average rate was just above 600KB/s.

On Thu, 2006-05-25 at 23:04 -0400, James P. Kinney III 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>
> I want my...
> I want my...
> I want my OC3
> 
> </$6k/mo=DIVORCE!>
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