Rogers cable modem speed

[Ivan Avery Frey]

Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> Is anyone else seeing indications that Rogers has boosted the speed of
> their extreme service from 6 to 8Mbps?  I was just surprised to see
> this:
> 
> 76% [163 python-twisted-core 722/753kB 0%]                   884kB/s 42s
> 
> It managed to go over 900 a few times too.
> 
> An 80 MB transfer from ftp.ca.debian.org averaged 859kB/s.

Even though it's not advertised as such, the ultra-lite service has gone 
to a d/l speed of about 320Kbps.

Ivan.

P.S. Don't tell anybody or they'll probably throttle it back.
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