broadband cable throughput quality

[Steve Holmes]

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I sure wish that god-awful reply to field could be fixed on the list!
Most of the time I have to overtype the to field with my aliased
speakup entry to get rid of it.

For Cable speeds, I now can enjoy an average of around 350 KB per
second while downloading from ftp.kernel.org.  I used to only get at
most, half or a third as much until I replaced my hub and 486 based
router with a new router which has four switched ports on it.  My
uploads have consistantly been around 30 KBPS no matter what; pretty
steady.

I don't like the port blocking that Cox does but I can get around
quite a few of them by using non-standard ports; they mainly block web
(80) and SMTP (25).  I think they bock FTP and telnet but I don't do
telnet at all and SSH works fine but since I use a router, I split off
my SSH to several different machines by using other ports.  I also use
a non standard port to access my web server privately.  All and all,
it works and is the only high speed internet option available to me in
my neighborhood.  I could have stayed with Sprint Broadband but I
think Cox is faster now then they were and certainly my upload speeds
are better.

Too bad I can't afford a T1 line <sigh>.
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