[CLUE-Tech] What are your cablemodem/dsl download speeds?

[BOF]

Keith Christian wrote:

>>With my cablemodem, it's taking about 90 minutes, give or take a few. 
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>>This isn't as fast as I remember from previous ISP's.  I'd appreciate
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>> any comments from the rest of you, so that I have some comparative info.
>


On my aDSL (Qwest home) line it takes about 2.5 - 3.0 hours to download 
an .iso image  ---- if everything is working at max efficiency. So the 
download speeds are around 64 kBs. But there are times when it says 999 
hours .....

Still, I consider myself lucky. A telephone line repairmen told me that 
many parts of the greater Denver area are lucky to have 28.8 dialup, and 
will never get any better because of the quality of the lines. And other 
areas, like the one where my son used to live were fiber-optic for the 
last mile, so no DSL for him either, ever. He had to go to satellite uplink.

This must explain the increasing popularity of cable modem, as almost 
everywhere now has cable TV.

BOF