On Fri, 06 Jun 2008 12:56:01 -0400, Warp wrote:

> Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
>> In Europe, yes.  In the US, no.  I got an upgrade recently (for free)
>> to 3 Mbps from 1.5.  It's amazing that that still qualifies as
>> "broadband" here in the US.
> 
>   I think "broadband" is a marketing term which means "anything faster
> than ISDN".

Quite possibly.  But here in the US, compared to the rest of the "first 
world", broadband speeds are quite slow, generally speaking.

I live in a major metropolitan area and my DSL speed won't go above 3 
Mbps because of "technical limitations" (distance from the telco CO).  
And it's only been in the last year that I got 3 Mbps, it used to be 1.5.

I *could* pay for Comcast cable and get - I think it is - a whopping 6-8 
Mbps, but then I'd be subject to their bandwidth caps and throttling = I 
pay for 6-8, but I can't *use* it if I so desire.  Their TOS (when I 
selected my current provider) didn't allow for hosting services, either, 
and I need remote access into my network.  If you wanted that (at that 
time, no idea if it's changed now), you had to pay something like $250 a 
month for a *business* connection.

There's no way my employer would reimburse for that.  They'd sooner have 
me drive 45 miles to sit in an office rather than work from home.

Jim

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