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CDSmith · 09-30-2001, 01:10 AM

Tim, thanks for that extra test link.
My results there are:

From the SJC location: Speed 1733(down)/638(up) kbps

And from the LA location: Speed 934(down)/634(up) kbps

I've never had a complaint with my cable modem yet, it's always fairly quick so I suppose I'll stick with it.

No matter how many times the DSL companies use the word "dedicated", there is simply no way in hell that they are going to give you a 1.5 Mb/s dedicated digital connectivity for $30 bucks a month. No way, no fucking how. T1 is the only such connection I know of that delivers that amount of dedicated throughput, and T1 costs a hell of a lot more than 30 bucks a month, more like $2K per month.

According to whatis.com, individual DSL connections will provide from 1.544 Mbps to 512 Kbps downstream and about 128 Kbps upstream

The actual bandwidth for Internet service over a cable TV line is up to 27 Mb/s on the download path to the subscriber with about 2.5 Mb/s of bandwidth for interactive responses in the other direction. However, since the local provider may not be connected to the Internet on a line faster than a T-carrier system at 1.5 Mb/s, a more likely data rate will be close to 1.5 Mb/s.

Here's a good reference table for those that are interested in learning more about speeds of the various connectivity out there today: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.c...214198,00.html

By the way, a few years back when I started, the biggest pipe on that chart was OC-12 (622 Mb/s)
Now look at it, there's OC-256 (over 13 GIGA-bits per second!!) You could run a whole continent on that.

[This message has been edited by CDSmith (edited 09-30-2001).]

09-30-2001, 01:10 AM
CDSmith Too lazy to set a custom title Industry Role: Join Date: May 2001 Location: My network is hosted at TECHIEMEDIA.net ...Wait, you meant where am I located at? Oh... okay, I'm in Winnipeg, Canada. Oops. :) Posts: 51,460	Tim, thanks for that extra test link. My results there are: From the SJC location: Speed 1733(down)/638(up) kbps And from the LA location: Speed 934(down)/634(up) kbps I've never had a complaint with my cable modem yet, it's always fairly quick so I suppose I'll stick with it. No matter how many times the DSL companies use the word "dedicated", there is simply no way in hell that they are going to give you a 1.5 Mb/s dedicated digital connectivity for $30 bucks a month. No way, no fucking how. T1 is the only such connection I know of that delivers that amount of dedicated throughput, and T1 costs a hell of a lot more than 30 bucks a month, more like $2K per month. According to whatis.com, individual DSL connections will provide from 1.544 Mbps to 512 Kbps downstream and about 128 Kbps upstream The actual bandwidth for Internet service over a cable TV line is up to 27 Mb/s on the download path to the subscriber with about 2.5 Mb/s of bandwidth for interactive responses in the other direction. However, since the local provider may not be connected to the Internet on a line faster than a T-carrier system at 1.5 Mb/s, a more likely data rate will be close to 1.5 Mb/s. Here's a good reference table for those that are interested in learning more about speeds of the various connectivity out there today: http://searchnetworking.techtarget.c...214198,00.html By the way, a few years back when I started, the biggest pipe on that chart was OC-12 (622 Mb/s) Now look at it, there's OC-256 (over 13 GIGA-bits per second!!) You could run a whole continent on that. [This message has been edited by CDSmith (edited 09-30-2001).]