Comcast

[timeshifter]

seriously sucks. I just ran a speed test... 561kb/s. That's less than a tenth of the advertised speed.

[Lord Orwell]

i tried out yahoo DSL once and called them complaining. They said "we only guarantee the speed on our network". I then connected my cable modem and browsed the exact same pages at 8x the speed. You do realize a couple of things though: Bandwidth varies during the day due to usage. Cable modems share bandwidth with everyone nearby. And the speed advertised is kilobit, not byte (probably) and finally, it is a combo of up and download. Oh and one more thing i forgot. I was getting 2MB/sec from my last broadband provider until i installed a hardware firewall and it cut it down to about 300k/s. I just got 10.0MB cable internet and i haven't got to use it yet. I am hoping my shiny-new LinkSys doesn't do the same.

[timeshifter]

They advertise 6mb/s download speeds. I clocked in at 561kb. See my problem?

[Atheist]

Theres alot of speed-decreasing factors that an ISP cant do anything about, thats just the way the internet is.

[penagate]

kB/s, kb/s, KiB/s, or Kib/s?

[timeshifter]

I typed specifically what I meant. They advertise 6mb/s: "m" for base-10 measurement (1,000,000), and "b" for bit. I also used a similar measurement for my speed: 561kb/s. "k" for base-10 (1,000) and "b" for bit.

[mendhak]

You may need to read the fineprint then... it's possible they meant one of the various other permutations of case in order to sell you this line.

[penagate]

Although, you have to realise that the speed realised over a DSL connection depends almost wholly on the line quality and distance between endpoints. My plan is advertised as 24 Mb/s downstream, but I only get a bit over 3, as I am a long distance from my telephone exchange.

Cable connections have greater bandwidth, but, as Lord Orwell said, it is shared over an area and is combined upstream and downstream.