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James Knott
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Tue Mar 16 22:23:28 UTC 2004
Taavi Burns wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 09:00:39AM -0600, Jim W Lai wrote:
>
>>Bell's raised the basic level of ADSL from 1.5Mbps to 3.0Mbps to compete
>>with Rogers cable here. The next tier of service is a mere 4.0Mbps.
>>I'm with a smaller reseller of ADSL, and my service got bumped up without
>>any change in hardware (Alcatel here) or billing price. Upstream speed got
>>boosted to 800kbps as well.
>
>
> To 800kbps! YIKES! That definitely outpaces Rogers' residential connection
> at 192kbps (in fact, afaik cablemodems max out at 768kbps anyway). That's
> a HUGE change.
Rogers is 3 Mb down & 384Kb up.
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