RCN Cable Modem Mach 10

[JoeyDVDZ]

I hate where I work, everyone knows it. (I work for RCN Cable/Phone/Internet.) That being said, I just realized something pretty wonderful about it. Everybody has been going on and on about FIOS lately here, and I would love that at home, myself. I am dl'ing some stuff here at work with RCN's "mach 10" cable modem, and I am getting downstream transfers averaging 9.5 to 10.5 mbps speeds. Say what you will, that seems fairly peppy for a standard cable modem! Just sayin.....

[Rob]

i thought you did something with DVD's...

[Torlough]

What is the UL like I play video games and hat is important.

[roche]

What is the UL like I play video games and hat is important.

Thier website says 800 Kbps Upload

[JoeyDVDZ]

Nah. Once upon a time, before it was fashionable to do so, I ripped & bootlegged stuff on DVD, hence the nick.

Now that every tool with $100 to spare can do it just as well as I did back in ye oldern days, I don't bother anymore.

[Torlough]

same as the regular modem which is like 7 meg. So why pay the extra. BTW arent all the modems the same it is just what speed they uncap you at?

[Hummercash]

optonline is 10mbps down 1mbps up stanard... they just started beta testing a 20/2 program that should roll out around october.


.//chris

[ADD Theater]

For web browsing and P2P, the asymmetric bandwidth is fine. For video games, you need to worry about latency.

Once you start getting into the higher speeds, the websites that you access only give data so fast so it doesn't really pay. The higher bandwidth is needed for things like video.

I've got the RCN Mach 7 and it's fine.

[MetalSign]

I'd love RCN here. I can see the fucking RCN boxes from my apt, but "they don't have anything in my area". I'd gladly get RCN over SETV.