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Comcast has great speeds in the northeast, but they also have competition from Verizon fios. In the south, our cable companies won't improve service until ATT starts rolling out their fiber broadband.
Hard pressed to find significantly fast broadband from TW in the south unless you're paying for business class.
Comcast has great speeds in the northeast, but they also have competition from Verizon fios. In the south, our cable companies won't improve service until ATT starts rolling out their fiber broadband.
Hard pressed to find significantly fast broadband from TW in the south unless you're paying for business class.
Actually up here Comcast's competition is Fairpoint, and most people know by now not to even think about using them in their current state.
Not sure how some of you Cable people are getting up to 30mbps. Fastest speed you can even get around here is 10mbps. I'm not sure how much difference it makes anyway, I have yet to find a site besides Microsoft that can dump stuff onto my computer at anywhere near the 5.x mbps speeds I'm currently getting.
EDIT: OK, I guess you can get up to 50mbps with cable if you want to shell out $100/mo for it. Can't say as I can think of a compelling reason to get 50mpbs just yet. 6mbps seems to be adequate for now.
That's a good point drover, even if the server can supply really high speeds most content your average user is going to view isn't going to approach those speeds. Other than video most people don;t have need for it. Most video content on the web isn't going to be 250 to 1000/kbps. Standard youtube video is somewhere in the 300/kbps range. "HD" which really isn't true HD is about 2 to 6/mbps. Once you get up past 8 to 10/mbps you're getting into the real high quality video similar to what you might expect on something Blu-Ray disc.
That's a good point drover, even if the server can supply really high speeds most content your average user is going to view isn't going to approach those speeds. Other than video most people don;t have need for it. Most video content on the web isn't going to be 250 to 1000/kbps. Standard youtube video is somewhere in the 300/kbps range. "HD" which really isn't true HD is about 2 to 6/mbps. Once you get up past 8 to 10/mbps you're getting into the real high quality video similar to what you might expect on something Blu-Ray disc.
Yeah, even Netflix's "highest quality" streaming video setting only requires, I think, 2mbps or maybe 3mbps. So until actual HD-quality streaming content is available, I'm fine with my 6mbps. Maybe higher speeds are useful for distributive multiple-source download technologies like BitTorrent or Limewire, but I never use them... so, 6mbps for me is fine.
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