I can’t help but think about the current prices of Internet service by these providers Comcast, optimum, Xfinity. If someone has a gigabit or better download and upload speeds they must be paying quite a bit of money for that service. All I can say is that “optimum “ doesn’t give you a lot of choices about upload speeds at all and I had it out on the phone with them recently after needing to change my services. Neil I am curious, what you’re paying for Internet? Sent from: My extremely complicated, hand held electronic device. On Feb 2, 2022, at 7:50 AM, Neil Cherry via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vcfed.org> wrote: On 2/1/22 20:40, John Heritage via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Hey folks, I’m trying to remember what download speeds Comcast@Home offered circa 1998 (when I first had cable modem). I remember the upload speeds initially being 256-384 kbps but then Comcast cut the upload to 128 kbps. This was terrible not just because it was slow but it was barely enough bandwidth to even request data fast enough to saturate the download speed. I think the initial download speeds were 3 or 4 mbps with cable modems in 1998 (south jersey area - former Storer Cable area), but I have a couple of friends who think it was more like 768kbps - 1 mbps. Any one have memories of this time? P.S. My google-fu sees a lot of ~ 2.8 mbps down on Cox@Home and some other @Home providers around 2000-2003 but I’m having trouble finding earlier than that period online.
2.8 seems like a really odd number. Initial I think they only got up to 2/512 as the proformance package (not sure they called it that then). I don't recall all the packages. And problem is I recall from various times as I started, as a customer, early on with some of the first installs of the @Home service. I recall 2/256 (Up/Down Mbps/kbps) and 1/128 be available. I was one of the first to get @Home service. I now have 1250/200 (Mbps) with Comcast. My 1.25/2.5 Gbps Ethernet card arrives tonight. I think the lowest was 128/64 (kbps/kbps). Usually the upload to download was 4:1 or 5:1 although early on the had weird ratios. -- Linux Home Automation Neil Cherry ncherry@linuxha.com http://www.linuxha.com/ Main site http://linuxha.blogspot.com/ My HA Blog Author of: Linux Smart Homes For Dummies