Re: Comcast "Economy Internet"

["Jerry Feldman-2" <user=4@nabble.blu.org>]

 On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:34:22 -0400 (EDT) 
"Scott R. Ehrlich" <[hidden email]> wrote: 

> On Fri, 16 May 2008, Tom Metro wrote: 
> 
> > Bill Horne wrote: 
> >> And the other posters are correct: Comcast is evil. 
> > 
> > Speaking of Comcast, I received a postcard from them this week promoting an 
> > "Economy Internet" service. 
> > 
> > The ad focuses on all the junk software and services they bundle, and 
> > conveniently doesn't mention the data rate anywhere except in the fine print. 
> > 
> > How slow is it? 768 Kbps. Funny, given all the ads they've ran over the past 
> > few years pointing out how much faster cable modem service was compared to 
> > 768 Kbps DSL (even though most DSL users are probably running at 1.5 Mbps). 
> > 
> > So for only $25/month you get all the speed of a $15 DSL connection and all 
> > the port filtering of Comcast. 
> > 
> > -Tom 
> > 
> 
> Hi Tom: 
> 
> We switched to economy speed several months back to help save money - we 
> didn't really need to extra speed if I have to pay for it out of pocket, 
> which I do. 
> 
> I routinely get ~90KB/sec downloads per Firefox download window 
> reportings. 
> 
> Overall, I have no problems with it.