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Le Samedi 7 Juillet 2001 04:58, vous (Mark Schonbach) avez écrit :
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> Been very happy with @Home down in Hockessin, DE. Using a static IP,
> couldn't get their DHCP setup to play nicely with my client. I routinely
> get 500 kB/s down and 150 kB/s up. (that's kiloBYTES). We're not
> upstream capped around here. Email me if you have any more questions.
Yeah, I can remember when Comcast@HOME in my neck of south jersey was that
great, I could do everything.
However, don't get too comfortable with that because while you may not be
upcapped yet, as soon as they get enough users in your area, they will - I am
now upcapped at 128 KiloBITS/second (i'm not doing the math, but thats at
least 10 times less than 150 kB/s --sound nice?)
That's not all - the download speeds dropped a bunch (maybe congestion, maybe
it's capped, not sure) and the latency situation is beyond that of any humane
lag. If you ever want to partake in an online game (quake 3 perhaps?) - it
has to be at 2 in the morning, and then i get just about the bare minimum
ping rate to be able to play.
By the way, I have only distant memories of the days in which I could connect
to my friend who lives say...a mile across town from me. Talk about local
routing problems, when I don't get a NETWORK UNREACHABLE, the ping is at
least 700....
Besides that, if you think DSL's response is slow - we purchased our own
cable modem so we could stop renting theirs, it took 3 months for them to
'push the new MAC address through the system'....but they said they'd credit
us for those 3 months that it took them to get our numbers changed.
That would have been nice, but instead they've decided that while it is now 5
months after they got around to changing it, we should still be paying the
rental fee....
But hey, Comcast@HOME was nice when I first got it - I used to talk it up
just like you do.
--qumak(james)
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