> These numbers are consistent with the test I ran with an ADSL user here in
> Ottawa.
> Makes you wonder how long before Rogers begins to see this.
> Richard
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Yep. Well, maybe for the 400kbps their price might come down? After
all, if by that restriction they can jam on more customers per node
without the service being degraded by high-bandwidth users of the local
node, then maybe they can afford to charge a lower price? For speeds
adequate for many customers if consistent and not subject to logjams? I
mean, it would be nice to be able to leave on applications that push
something like that many bits per second at you for a long time, without
worrying about hogging the neighborhood LAN? Well, I don't know much
about it, but looks from where I am that it could be a smart move not to
bump up the maximum bandwidth right away. The many-Mbps down south, and
at Shaw Wave too I hear, sounds great but maybe isn't important as
reliable, continuous service at a single order of magnitude better than
dialup speeds.
By the way, my "500kbps" in a previous reply came mostly from the
maximum speed of the Zenith modems that Rogers is phasing out. Also
some people do seem to have reported downloads at up to about
60KBytes/sec at times. Crafty of Rogers to start putting in new,
"better" modems, but have them set to 80% of the speed of the old kind!
But maybe it all makes some sense.
Also, early adopters of ADSL or any other high-bandwidth service should
be aware that things may slow down once the lines get filled by traffic
from the designed number of customers. That is, in the expanding areas
things are generally better for awhile. Also when the upstream capacity
has recently been increased. But I don't have background re the
details.
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