hello again - and a question about Rogers

[The Edge of the Ice]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004 11:33:06 -0400, Lennart Sorensen
<lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I managed to transmit at I think 130KB/s on a terayon in Waterloo back
> in 1999, on a brand new segment with 3 or 4 users on the entire segment.
> Downloads often hit 300 to 340KB/s.  Not sure what docsis actually
> allows for up and downstream rates.
> 
> Needless to say I have never seen anything like those speeds on rogers
> in Toronto.  Shaw in Bolton was close, but when rogers took over the
> speed just dropped (along with reliability).  I haven't used rogers for
> about 4 or 5 months now so i have no idea what may have changed since.

A year ago my Rogers service was rated at 1.5Mbps, and I got about half of that.
Then last year they went and bumped a bunch of us up to 3Mbps, and now I get
half of that (i.e. what I was originally supposed to get).  Maybe it's
my Terayon...

Back in Edmonton, our Videon (formerly Videotron) cablemodems weren't capped
at anything.  One morning around 3am I managed to suck 800kBps from
sunsite.ualberta.ca (back before they put in a
4kBps-per-outside-connection throttle).
THAT was speed.  (IIRC, ADSL tops out at 8Mbps, given perfect wires, but newer
DSL variants may go faster)

AFAIK it's technically possible for cablemodems in general to go
faster, since I'm
remembering something about the coax pipe running at 30Mbps; I've never
had solid proof that any modems have been made with more than a 10bT ethernet
MAC on them, though, meaning that you really do need at least 4 or so people on
a segment to even think about saturating it.

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