Re: cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?

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Author: Brian Cluff
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To: plug-discuss, Tom Roche
Subject: Re: cheap ISP for low-bandwidth use?
On 10/28/2015 08:17 PM, Tom Roche wrote:
> Thanks for the pointer. Of course, what I'd really like to know is
> what their actual performance is :-) When I was last with TWC, they
> promoted {10 MB down, 2 MB up} but I never got close to that: IIRC my
> best TWC home download ever was 1.92 MB/s, briefly, while on a direct
> wire connection to the cablemodem. And that was on a laptop that
> regularly did 20 MB/s downloads on my academic network.

I was just reading this and I'm wondering if you are mixing your acronyms.
You said that they promoted 10 MB down and 2 MB up. I'm guessing that
you meant to use 10 Mb (Megabit) instead of 10 MB (MegaByte) because a
10MegaByte connection would be close 100MegaBit connection which aren't
exactly cheap.
Then you said you get 1.92 MB/s (Mega Bytes per second) which seems like
you were actually getting more than you were paying for since a 10
Megabits/second connection would max out at 1.28 MegaBytes/second under
perfect circumstances which you will almost certainly not have. 20
MegaBytes/Second seems a little high but not unreasonable for a good
academic network especially if they are running a cache.

Anyway, I just saw some potential ambiguity with you acronyms thought
you might want to clarify....or just say shutup Brian, you knew what I
meant :)

Brian Cluff

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