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Re:Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it o... by doctorshady on Thursday June 22, 2017 @09:30PM (#14616587)
How often is the performance difference between 100 megabit and gigabit internet all that measurable, though? For that matter, how often do truly get even, say, 900 megabits allocated to you on that sort of connection?

I'm not doubting they actually give you a gigabit connection, but especially during peak hours, I doubt the transit links you hit would necessarily have that much to spare.

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Re:Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it o... by zkms on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:45PM (#14616830)
> How often is the performance difference between 100 megabit and gigabit internet all that measurable, though?

For doing backups/restores, in this age of multi-terabyte disks, fast network links (especially in the upload direction) are a necessity.

I don't mind some oversubscription, I can work around peak hours, hell, I'd love to temporarily trade away most of my downlink bandwidth in exchange for uplink bandwidth -- average upload speed is all that matters for this sort of large transfer.

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Re:Comcast accused of cutting competitor’s wires to put it o... by rayiner on Thursday June 22, 2017 @10:16PM (#14616729)
It's the tail end of the PM peak here, and I'm getting 420 mbps to my web host, about 450 to Azure (on a 500/500). I think it's growing pains from Verizon's gigabit rollout, because when I was at 300/300, I consistently got over the rated speed.
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