i a as much an Optimum users, and this is sertain. It is very node specific about running servers. Some nodes are crouded and you can't rn a server for you life because they'll have your head. Others, lik emyt, aren't crouded at all. I think because of this old cable modem, I'm limited to 6Mb/s that's megabits, by 1 megabit up. Thanks, Nick ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alex Snow" <alex_snow@xxxxxxx> To: "Speakup is a screen review system for Linux." <speakup at braille.uwo.ca> Sent: Monday, July 05, 2004 9:59 AM Subject: Re: broadband cable throughput quality > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > that's pretty good downstream for cable. the only thing I've seen > faster is optimum online which in some areas is giving 10x1.5mbps > connections...if I lived one town over I could have it...:-( > and they don't really care about running servers from what I've seen. > On > Mon, Jul 05, 2004 at 04:52:26PM +1000, Shaun Oliver wrote: > > ok guys just to put my 2 cents worth in here, > > depending on the site, I can get download speeds oupwards of 800 kb/s > > that's kilobytes per second > > I'm like most people are limited to 128 kbps kilobits per second which > > works out to aproximately 14-16 kb/s > > hth > > > > -- > > Shaun Oliver > > > > > > "I refuse to have a battle of wits with an unarmed person." > > email: shaun.oliver at optusnet.com.au > > WEB: http://blindman.homelinux.org/~blindman/ > > IRC: irc.awesomechat.net:6666 > > IRCNICK: blindman > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Speakup mailing list > > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup > > - -- > 'Ooohh.. "FreeBSD is faster over loopback, when compared to Linux > over the wire". Film at 11.' > -- Linus Torvalds > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.3 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQFA6V639XVrM3ri110RAqW3AJ9pg/bKmDL+AQxeWHD2BoQpq2It8wCdGST5 > MmDusojomhlrdr8L3xykp7I= > =fMmd > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup
