Quote Originally Posted by Dante WolfWood View Post
I actually work for a cable company (SPOILER)(charter) and we get the higher tier ( I believe its 20 MB now?) for nothing. we are soon going to be updating our QAM and start "Narrowbanding" to each nodes to give more bandwidth and speed so I am actually hopefully looking at 50 MB for nothing soon. Plus My service is great! My connection never drops off and I havent had an outage yet. plus if I ever do have a problem, its nothing I can't handle on my own or call in a system tech to check on for me for free.

and the only problem with DSL over cable is the shared bandwidth but I live way WAY out in the country and I am actually on the last port of the cable plant so my speed is always topped out any time of the day.
Every word of that post made sense to me until you said 'last port of the cable plant' -- how is that relevant to distributed bandwidth?

I pay quite a bit for my internet access, as it is no longer subsidized by my employer. But the service is pretty good. There's a download limit but I blame myself and everybody like myself who downloads a lot every month. The funny thing is I don't download any more, and by Sept I don't expect to ever run into problems with that (I used to go over the limit and they charge you an arm and a leg for moar).

All the same, I don't remotely get close to 50 Mbps and so I'm jealous. Also I didn't think such speeds were possible except in other countries like Japan...wow