Finally on teksavvy

[Maureen Thornton]

What are your transfer caps?


On Sat, 2012-03-24 at 21:52 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> I finally got around to switching to teksavvy from rogers cable.
> 
> I had been too lazy to bother.  I only got cablemodem because Bell didn't
> offer ADSL when I bought the house 7 years ago, and then it went from
> 6Mbps to eventually 10Mbps, and ADSL was only 5 or 6Mbps.  Well VDSL2
> changed that.  Free install (during some part of March), and I now have
> 25Mbps down, and 7Mbps up (speedtest.net confirms it is reliably doing
> that), for about the same monthly price I was paying rogers for 10Mbps
> down and 1Mbps up.
> 
> Quite how cat3 or worse phone line can do that, I am not sure.
> 
> I had considered moving to teksavvy cablemodem about a year ago, just
> to get a cheaper service for the same speed and a higher transfer quota
> per month, but now I am happy I waited.
> 
> Seeing this is certainly nice:
> 
> Fetched 62.4 MB in 27s (2,298 kB/s)                                                                                                                                  
> 
> Makes apt-get updated nice and fast.  I have seen it as high as 3000 kB/s.
> 


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