I would much rather 768kbps of GUARANTEED bandwidth to RoadRunner and Comcast. Yes I know DSL is not guaranteed, I'm just saying what I want. Too bad T1 lines are still too expensive.

BTW--I know there are exceptions but generally, when comparing technology, you get what you pay for. T1 lines are more expensive than cable, yet only allow total of 1.54Mbps--why is T1 so expensive? 1.54mbps is GUARANTEED 24/7, NO INTERRUPTION, NO LAGGING FOR "SERVER MAINTENENCE". How fast is my "4.0mbps" cable running on average?

When it is up it averages about 800kbps to 1 mbps, occasionally can peak almost to 3.2mbps but very rarely. Downtime averages about two hours a day (usually around 3:00 AM so no problem for me), cycles (I call it that--when it works and goes down for 10 seconds, comes back up for 30 at half normal speed then goes down another 10...my guess is one server is rebooting for updates, then the next, then the next...) about another 2 hours DURING THE DAY. Sorry but that just sucks! I would rather a reliable 640kbps download speed than an intermittent 1 mbps speed! I'm switching to dsl...

Horray, more spam from the USA's most spam friendly ISP! I CANT WAIT!!!!

I would gladly trade back a couple of MBPS of download speed if they would give it to me as upload speed. I'm very happy with my current 4MBPS download and don't really have a need for more speed in that direction...but 384kbps up is fricken pathetic!

I use DSL because I get a reliable 640kbit up. That tells me that my modem and connection can actually go faster, since there's modem overhead and stuff normally. It also tells me that Telus(Canada) is not sending it to me any faster though.

If you really want a compromise, then I'd suggest DSL from a good company. I get 2.5/640, which sounds exactly like what you wanted. If you can knock a few dollars off your bill each month aswell, then it's a double bonus.

I'm happy since I can host custom maps fullhouse in Wc3 with no lag - something I KNOW most people with cable can't do, atleast on the maps I play.

Swat: Aftermath - average 250 units moving around map at any one time.

Stockholm Sweden has just chosen to boost power right away. Comcast and the other company's are upgrading us slowly to use it as a leverage to boost their subcriber base. When DSL or another cable company gets a little faster, then Comcast boosts up the power another notch. Which, is what I thought they were doing all along, since we never needed to upgrade our modems or anything. Comcast said it themselves in the statement above: Comcast claims that it has "built a network that has virtually unlimited capacity to deliver higher speeds." Speaks for itself.

Well Well another slap in the face to Charter Pipeline customers who have no options whatsoever even if they wish to pay for higher bandwidth. Losers. Losers.

Hmm.. not very impressive. I work for a cable company in Stockholm, Sweden which offers 24 MBPS downstream and 8 MBPS upstrem using the EuroDOCSIS 2.0 standard..

Your country is also not even 1/20 the size of the U.S. You don't share the same demographics, financial schema, or history of massively distributed networks that exponentially increase in complexity when you are talking about tens of millions of simultaneous connections. WHile I applaud your braggart attitude, the comparison is moot, as it is with Korea or another small fry. Now Canada and China, there are markets you can compare to, and Canada does indeed have better deals for broadband, but then again it's population is smaller and competition is less fierce than in the U.S.

I applaud your need to so vigorously defend your country.

Well, we (the company that I work for) have a backbone that stretches across Europe and also the United States and provides Internet connection to about 2.3 million subscribers, so I would'nt call it that small. And about competition - it's probably more fierce in Sweden, that's why the speeds are way up and prices way down.

More outages for it's customers, they mean.

Can anyone say 'fear of FIOS' ?

Sounds sweet, can't wait till ours is upgraded again here in Canada. Rogers is now @ 5Mbps. Never had any outage issues with Rogers yet.

I want an ISP that gives me 9/2.5 speeds. :P

Yeah i have comcast in wa state and i get outages everyonce in a while, but more speed is always nice and like 1 person said more upload would be nice as well. Espically when i'm ftp'ing funny picures to my website.

I also have it in washington Since the last boost of speed almost everyone I know has to restart their computer everytime they leave the internet idle for more then 30 minutes. It horrible. Comcast keeps saying they are working on fixing the problem. Its been like this for a month or so in the seattle area. Its bs. I hate having to restart my computer everytime. i would rather have to reconnect to dsl. It would be shorter!

I live in Seattle as well but I've rarely had problems with my service. Sure I get the occasional time where I've had to reboot my modem but certainly nothing as bad as you have described.

>> i would rather have to reconnect to dsl

DSL doesn't have reconnect times, atleast where I live. It's always on, and I can access it immediately. If I'm idle for 8 or so hours, then I can start up netscape and goto google or betanews, and they will pop up in under a second.

I suppose that's because the modem is always plugged into the phone line though.

I'm in the san francisco bay area and it's been good IF you don't count the DNS outage area. But... you should. That was a very pathetic excuse and there should have been backups. And while the download speed is very nice once again, I'd rather they double the upload speed. They could always speedlock certain ports if they're worried about sharing. Or give you, say, bursts on lower port numbers for up to an hour. Oh well.

it'd be nice if i could even connect to comcast most of the time :S

Just out of curiosity, what region do you live in? I'm in the New England area, and Comcast has been rock solid, haven't had an outage in just about a year.

lol boston here and it goes out atleast twice a month. but its better then last year.

i live in Sacramento, California..

Hurrah. I have Comcast and live in Maryland.

Live in Michigan...had the two DNS outages a while back at the height of Comcast's problems, but for the most part it has been solid for going on five years, or whenever they took over from @Home.

That said, the cost may not be worth it anymore...I can get dsl for $20 with 768kb download...is 6-8mbps worth $45...I dunno. Other than service packs, manuals and drivers, I don't download much besides email and webpages