[ale] Bellsouth

[Jim Moore]

Calvin Harrigan wrote:

>Jim Moore wrote:
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>>Notice that others have the DSL Extreme 3M service.  What are your 
>>actual download speeds?  I get 90-135K.  They tell me everthing on their 
>>side is O.K. Guess I should be thankful. Only had dial-up here for 
>>several years and with a 56K modem would get 14.4 on a good day.  They 
>>told me all they had to guarantee was 9600baud.  Was on Direcway for 
>>three years til they finally put FAST(?) access DSL in.  The $60 a month 
>>for Direcway is steep and they limit bandwidth in any one 24 hour 
>>period.  Direcway's download speeds weren't heartwarming either.  Seems 
>>like someone would deliver what they advertise.
>>My rant for the morning. 
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>Those rates seem a little low.  What are you benchmarking against? 
>Those numbers are even less then 1.5 mb service.
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Not any benchmark Calvin.  Firefox has a nifty add-on that is a progress 
bar which sits in the bottom of the browser window.  Hover the mouse 
over and it gives current download speed and est time for completion. 
My main proof is time for downloading a standard 640-660 CD.  Most 
servers I get the 90-135K rate or 2hrs 20min to 2hrs 50min.  If I'm on a 
local fast linux server, i.e., GaTech, it will run 135 to 180.

Jim