My cable company gives me a PowerBoost feature for free. Your contract promises you a minimum amount of bandwidth. When the cable company has extra bandwidth available you get more speed for free.
I've noticed that even when a downloading DVD iso of Linux (gigabytes in size) that the speedboost kicks in pretty well. Some days I get more and some days I get less. I've always had my minimum promised speed though.
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My cable company gives me a PowerBoost feature for free. Your contract promises you a minimum amount of bandwidth. When the cable company has extra bandwidth available you get more speed for free.
I've noticed that even when a downloading DVD iso of Linux (gigabytes in size) that the speedboost kicks in pretty well. Some days I get more and some days I get less. I've always had my minimum promised speed though.