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arcsbite

Guest
Jan 14, 2006
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1
What's it like... I am told that there are some painful caps on there... I get about 50-60Mbits on a Government provided connection...

so far so good.
managing to download 1Gb in around 4 mins.
if I remember rightly caps are for heavy downloads after 4pm and before 9pm, I usually download and play after 9 so not seen much of an issue
 

MAC-PRO-DEMON

macrumors 6502a
Jul 10, 2008
806
2
Up north in Yorkshire :)
so far so good.
managing to download 1Gb in around 4 mins.
if I remember rightly caps are for heavy downloads after 4pm and before 9pm, I usually download and play after 9 so not seen much of an issue

It's great when you just want to watch a movie... Just click buy... go get a cup of tea... and then watch it LOL.. I have a back-up connection which is ADSL and I only get about 3Mbit's!! It's SO SO SO slow... But I did say that it was a backup didn't I!!! Cable hardly ever goes down thank the lord..
 

jav6454

macrumors Core
Nov 14, 2007
22,303
6,264
1 Geostationary Tower Plaza
It's great when you just want to watch a movie... Just click buy... go get a cup of tea... and then watch it LOL.. I have a back-up connection which is ADSL and I only get about 3Mbit's!! It's SO SO SO slow... But I did say that it was a backup didn't I!!! Cable hardly ever goes down thank the lord..

So you have 2 connections? One back-up and the other normal use? Nice...
 

ViciousShadow21

macrumors 68020
Mar 11, 2009
2,489
0
To your left or right
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we're going to be getting FiOS soon so it should be even better.
 

MAC-PRO-DEMON

macrumors 6502a
Jul 10, 2008
806
2
Up north in Yorkshire :)
So you have 2 connections? One back-up and the other normal use? Nice...

Well... as I work from home reporting scans for the other side of the world (Tele-Radiology) I can't be let down if one connections goes down... Unfortunately... the ADSL (Backup Connection) is very slow.... and so it takes a lot longer than usual (As on Cable) to do my work...
 

oblomow

macrumors 601
Apr 14, 2005
4,508
18,899
Netherlands
officialy it should be better than this (can be the slow wifi connection to my router), however I'm not complaining...
 

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Designer Dale

macrumors 68040
Mar 25, 2009
3,950
101
Folding space
I live in the sticks. Nobody out here has a computer but me.
The faster connection was through the server in Seattle.
 

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thunderweb

macrumors 6502
Oct 22, 2008
326
0
Bend OR
so far so good.
managing to download 1Gb in around 4 mins.
if I remember rightly caps are for heavy downloads after 4pm and before 9pm, I usually download and play after 9 so not seen much of an issue

What?! 1Gb in 4 minutes!! Ugh I have to wait 45 - 60 minutes for 1GB...
 

Chase R

macrumors 65816
May 8, 2008
1,279
81
PDX
I don't really trust these things too much though... My speed varies by like 2-3 Mb/s depending on which server I choose.

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