Cable Modem ... uncapping 512Kb limit?

[EvilDonnyboy]

my Toronto area, served by Rogers@home, can regularly get 100+kB/s downloads. sometimes 200+kB/s. but my area was just upgraded a month ago, at the exact same time as i joined. so i don't know how slow it was before the upgrade. thou other rogers@home users say it gets as bad as modem speeds sometimes.

anywaz, what are ur in game pings? i get average 100-200 pings in Q2. I don't really play any other games that have ping counters in numbers (stoopid Rogue Spear).

 

[EvilDonnyboy]

and to add to the post that says canucks get better net speeds: the big canadian cities (toronto, vancouver) generally got a large established fibre optic networks. Mostly because they started to put the FO cables into the ground before stuff got really crowded in the cities. Now older US cities which don't already got large FO networks established have to digf up a lot of ground, disrupting a lot of traffic to get the giant sets of FO cables into the ground.

 

[mindiris]

Hmmm... as far as cable modems go, I can hardly agree with the disparity between the "100 times faster than a modem" and real world performance. About a year ago, I had Time Warner RoadRunner in San Diego. Was great when I got it, low ping, 300-700KB/s was easy. Within weeks, I found myself using my 56K dialup modem to play Quake III online to avoid 1+ second ping times. It got better, but I eventually cancelled my cable modem service in disgust.

The problem is this: the cable company advertises the hell out of the higher speed and availability of the cable modem service (as opposed to DSL), and the entire neighborhood node suddenly has the collision LEDs lit so constantly, you'd think you were staring at the power indicator!

 

[superbaby]

What's BBB? Better Business Bureau? Do we have that up here in Canada?