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Cable Beats DSL For Average Speed

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the also-brings-you-futurama dept.

zymano writes "CNET article here says cable modems are 50 percent faster on average than DSL connections which I think most have suspected . There are some connection rates that i found interesting like Cablevision reportedly having the fastest connections, averaging 800kbps, or 13kbps above the industry average. Mentions other cable company speeds. TimeWarner cable was not tested."

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  1. Re:Sounds right... by hbackert · · Score: 5, Informative

    Here in Tokyo, the place where you want to be when you want Internet connections for cheap, the standard DSL service is 12Mbit/s down, 1Mbit/s up. For abour Yen 3000 (about US$ 26). And so far no restrictions. And it's fast (within Japan 900kbyte/s if the server is fast enough, to USA usually 200kbyte/s).

    Everything else in Japan and especially in Tokyo is expensive. But Internet is as cheap as you can imagine.

  2. Re:Not Always True by PenguiN42 · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you could get kazaa users to use some other p2p program that isn't spyware,

    You mean kazaa lite?

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