On Fri, 06 Feb 2004, Chris Schumann wrote: > > I did a quick test. First I downloaded a 40MB package from a known huge > pipe. I got about 200KB/s. I unplugged my modem, waited, plugged it back > it and got about 380KB/s. > > Granted, there aren't too many sites that can actually send data that > fast, and you sure can't tell the difference web surfing, but man the big > downloads are hella sweet. > Yes, sweet they are. I don't even need to cron my apt-get dist-upgrades anymore. Life is good. > Anyone tried upstream rates? I think I read the upstream rate stayed the same. Can't remember where I read it from, but it might have been in the Comcast email. It would be nice if they would bump that up too though. Sometimes that 256k is a bit slow. (then /me remembers how I was stuck on dial-up for years and years) _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list