On Jan 24, 12:39am, Armen Babikyan wrote:
>slow 28.8 at $60/mo. from what i've been hearing about cable modems,
>though, increased usage by everybody on your subnet (your neighborhood,
>maybe), the lag is annoying. the bandwidth is significantly faster than a
>phone-line modem, though. cable modems are not as laggy as satellite
>connections, however :)

TCI/@home serves my neighborhood; there's a guy who works for them that
posts to comp.dcom.modems.cable, and he says:
  TCI uses a 10Mbit/sec bidirectional modem
  They have 30Mbit/sec feed to the concentrator
  They have their own high-speed international backbone
  They have not yet been suffering congestion

I'm seriously considering hopping on the bandwagon. :)

~Steve

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