-- > > multimedia and the like). Clearly, ISPs want to keep their > > customers happy, as they know that they will otherwise switch > > to another provider.
On 1 Apr 2002 at 15:43, Morlock Elloi wrote: > Nonsense. Following this logic, broadcast/cable TV should be of > high quality since they also want to keep their customers happy, > and customers want quality, don't they ? Bullshit. > > > secure telephony. Most ADSL is 384/1024 these days, and cable > > modem (6*10^3 customers in the U.S. alone) is roughly 500/500. > > In selected > > Nonsense. Try actual tests on actual consumer grade lines. > > Access pattern of *DSL lines reverts to modem usage 30-45 days > after consumer switches from analog modem to DSL. There is no > bandwidth within ISPs to provide anything more to consumers but > modem speeds, on average. I have had my DSL line for a very long time. So I decided to do a test. I downloaded a 4.25 megabyte file in 31 seconds, which seems pretty close to 1024kb --digsig James A. Donald 6YeGpsZR+nOTh/cGwvITnSR3TdzclVpR0+pr3YYQdkG iPWGDfxfJCduKIiFX4AULIzKc6HzzJy4UQa3Usg0 40GmnTEVrzAlrHTRC5i5ld4i5Z4vB0gBo5tbg05Qz