+5 Cable Modem of Downloading
Posted on September 23, 2003 @ 7:30 pm
I received a message from my broadband provider, Charter Communications, earlier today via Western Union. Here’s what it had to say…
| Charter Communications wants to thank you for being a customer by giving you the best High Speed Internet experience yet–at no additional cost to you!
Our company has been undergoing significant technological changes as we have upgraded our broadband networks. We understand that your service level may have been affected during this time. I am happy to report that we are now ready to move full speed ahead and we want to take you along by providing the fastest Charter Pipeline service ever! As a gesture of our appreciation for your business, we have increased the maximum download speed of your Charter Pipeline service to 2Mb/sec [from 400Kb/sec] at no additional cost to you. You don’t have to do anything to get this higher speed. Simply enjoy your enhanced Charter Pipeline the next time you go online. This increase in your download speed will remain in effect until March 2004. |
The change has already gone into effect, and I have to say that 2Mb/sec is a quite an improvement over 400Kb/sec (now, if only I had something huge that I really needed to download). Of course, I don’t expect anyone to find this at all interesting. I’m really just posting it to tick off teedz. 
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You had cable with only 50Kb/sec? Dial-up is 56Kb/sec! Did you mean 50KB/sec (400Kb/sec)? If so, that’s still pretty slow for cable. Mom has cable service through Charter Communications in Kingsport and I can get as much as 3Mb/sec off her line. Of course she lives in a neighborhood with a bunch of old folks so there’s probably no one “sharing” the bandwidth, which may make a difference.
D’oh! That was a brain fart on my end. I’ve corrected the numbers in the original entry. Thanks, Andy!
Congrats on the upgrade! I’m capped at 2.5 Mb/sec with Time Warner, but you know the only time it matters is when you are getting a huge download, which for me mostly occurs when retrieving new builds of Mozilla.
Campus T3 line, whee! Almost makes me not want to go home.
Anyway, congrats, JMan!
bastich! I wish a club foot and a pouty lip upon your offspring!
I have Charter cable modem service… I get 3.1/256.. I don’t understand what they mean by 2mb/256… I’m in Texas