Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
Cable That Cranks
I’m not sure what Cox Communications has done to their network down here recently, but lately I’ve been downloading fat binaries from Microsoft at about 450 KBytes/sec, or about 3.6MBits/sec. Thats equal to about two and a half T1 lines. Upload speed isn’t as crisp, but still respectable at about 500MBits/sec. All for the low low price of about $35.00 a month. In comparison, my high speed DSL line in San Francisco back in 2001 supplied 1.1MBits/sec. down, and 768MBits/sec. up, for about $350.00 per month. I also remember when I used to run an ISP with a friend of mine in Tallahassee which had a 56KBit/sec line from the local phone company. I think that line used to run about $650.00 per month back in 1995. My how times have changed.
October 5th, 2005 at 4:00 am
Jim Mathies said:
Test Comment.