I'm in NE Mpls, not too far from Fridley. I just did a Speakeasy test from my house on a whim, without any special prep (Which means I still have torrents going in the background and my wife is downloading things) and I hit 15341 down and 7334 up. We have the basic home service here, I consider that pretty successful. I don't like Comcast's pricing or business practices sometimes, but it's hard to disagree with their speed. Kristopher Browne kris.browne at gmail.com kris.browne at me.com 612-353-6969 - Home 612-408-4431 - Cell http://www.google.com/profiles/kris.browne On Jun 10, 2009, at 1:24 PM, Chris Barber wrote: > I just did a bandwidth test using http://www.speakeasy.net/ > speedtest/. My download speed is 28,998kbps and upload is 6,864kbps > from the Chicago server. 23,694kbps down and 4,087kbps up to the > Seattle server. These numbers aren't 100% accurate since I am > uploading some backups while performing the tests. > > I was originally a Time Warner Cable business class customer and I > paid $120 per month. I called Comcast a little over a year ago and > was going to cancel my business class since I didn't need the static > IPs anymore, but they said I was on the old TWC rates. I just > needed to sign a 1 year contract (which is a no brainer... I > **NEED** internet access) and now I pay $70/mo and get 5 static > IPs. Since it's business class service, should anything go wrong, > they can send out a guy within 24 hours... usually much, much, much > sooner than that. > > I'm very happy with Comcast and highly recommend the business class > service! > > -Chris > > Eric P: sorry, emailed the list from the wrong email address and it > got bounced... gave me a chance to change some of my original email. > > > > Eric F Crist wrote: >> >> On Jun 10, 2009, at 12:51 PM, Eric Peterson wrote: >> >> >>> On Mon, Jun 8, 2009 at 12:47 PM, Chris Barber <stuff at cb1inc.com> >>> wrote: >>> Or use Comcast Business class and get good speed, static ips, no >>> bandwidth limits and no packet shaping. It's like $70/mo with a 1 >>> year contract. Totally worth it. >>> >>> >>> Chris, >>> >>> What up/down do you get for $70/mo? Last time I checked it out it >>> was $120/mo. and the download rate was way below the standard >>> residential. Glad to hear it's improved. >>> >> >> >> I have 16/2 which I pay $52.00/month for and another $20 for a /28 of >> static IPs. >> --- >> Eric Crist >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list >> > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20090610/e14a3e00/attachment.htm