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"...all these worlds..." is a blog by David Hitt. It covers space exploration, decent science fiction, humor (by its very nature), and whatever else I happen to find cool. (Formerly "You Must Fight The Bear")
Name: David Hitt About Me: Inspiring the next generation of explorers... See my complete profile
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:: Saturday, March 01, 2003 ::
When Superfast Is Too Slow Due to events too complicated to get into, I'm experimenting now with cable internet. And after a few minutes, let me just say... not bad, not bad at all. A little over a year ago, I was still in the pre-DSL days of a 56K modem (ah, remember when those were the ultimate in speed ... what innocent times they were). Today, I'm running anywhere between 1,200 and 1,400K. 56K is suddenly much less impressive. I'm also running, according to an online speed test, at least six times faster than I was with DSL. Like I said, not bad at all. I have yet to do any serious uploading, which is supposedly where cable has its limitations, but even so, what they estimate as slow cable uploading is faster than what I was getting with DSL dowloading, so it can't be too much worse. I should also not that this about noon on Saturday ... cable performance is supposed to suffer during peak internet times (though, really, that's true of any service), so we shall see how I do at other times. But, so far, so good.
