[CLUE-Talk] brief intro & cable/DSL recommendations

[Gary & Sheri Mauldin]

I've done downloads from high bandwidth servers and have averages of
4Mbit/sec using @Home cable.  I live in Lakewood and even the tech's from
AT&T don't believe it until I've shown them.  Cable is the best VALUE in our
market.

Gary Mauldin


----- Original Message -----
From: "Warren" <warren at guano.org>
To: "Ed hill" <clue-talk at clue.denver.co.us>
Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2001 6:37 PM
Subject: Re: [CLUE-Talk] brief intro & cable/DSL recommendations


> Ed hill <ed at eh3.com> wrote:
>
> Eh> ...so I'm hoping cable is better... What do y'all consider to be the
> Eh> best deal?
>
> I have @Home cable and am pretty happy with it.  I'm very pleasantly
> SURPRISED, actually, because I expected crappy service and support.
>
> I couldn't tell you the claimed bandwidth, but in practical terms I just
> downloaded a 104MB file in 11 minutes, 30 seconds flat.  That works out
> to around 1.2Mbit/second.  Whoa!  Wait a sec, lemme do the math again...
>
> 104MB x 8 bits/byte / ( (11 min x 60 sec/min) + 30 sec) = 1.2Mbit/sec
>
> Someone check my math for me.
>
> If you have line-of-sight to Eldorado Mountain, you might want to look
> at Sprint Broadband, (http://www.sprintbroadband.com).  That means an
> external antenna.
>
> I'll let other list members talk about the DSL providers, but there are
> some like Front Range Internet (http://www.frii.com), American ISP
> (http://www.americanisp.net), and Rockynet (http://www.rockynet.com).
>
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