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    Douglas Troy
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    Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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      Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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      Ennis Ray Lynch Jr
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      That was funny.

      Need custom software developed? I do C# development and consulting all over the United States. A man said to the universe: "Sir I exist!" "However," replied the universe, "The fact has not created in me A sense of obligation." --Stephen Crane

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        Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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        It is entertaining. Good commercial.

        TOMZ_KV

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          Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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          PIEBALDconsult
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          Did Ghandi have the slowest fast? :confused:

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            Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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            John M Drescher
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            I wonder if this is true. I mean do they have higher than 30 MBit FIOS? [EDIT]Hmm, only 16MBit available in my area.[/EDIT]

            John

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              I wonder if this is true. I mean do they have higher than 30 MBit FIOS? [EDIT]Hmm, only 16MBit available in my area.[/EDIT]

              John

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              Douglas Troy
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              Yes, they are rolling out a 50mb/sec service, requires a DOCSIS 3.0 modem, and I believe it's around $150/mo. News Story about their 50mb/s rollout plan[^] Their 'normal', everyday service gets between 8-12mb/sec.

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                Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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                Nish Nishant
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                The interesting bit about the ad is that there's absolutely no mention of the speeds :-) Just saying "fast" or "fastest" or "fastest fast (sic)" is all nice, but it'd be nice if they mentioned some actual mbps numbers.

                Regards, Nish


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                  Did Ghandi have the slowest fast? :confused:

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                  Nish Nishant
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                  PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                  Did Ghandi have the slowest fast?

                  No, but Gandhi definitely has the most commonly mis-spelt name among well known people in history :-)

                  Regards, Nish


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                    PIEBALDconsult wrote:

                    Did Ghandi have the slowest fast?

                    No, but Gandhi definitely has the most commonly mis-spelt name among well known people in history :-)

                    Regards, Nish


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                    maybe, OTOH outside of india; I suspect almost everyone who knows of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar misspells his name.

                    Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                      The interesting bit about the ad is that there's absolutely no mention of the speeds :-) Just saying "fast" or "fastest" or "fastest fast (sic)" is all nice, but it'd be nice if they mentioned some actual mbps numbers.

                      Regards, Nish


                      Nish’s thoughts on MFC, C++/CLI and .NET (my blog)
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                      John M Drescher
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                      If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you. Mine was 16MBit and I am pretty sure 30MBit FIOS is in my neighborhood so not the fastest where I live..

                      John

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                        maybe, OTOH outside of india; I suspect almost everyone who knows of Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar misspells his name.

                        Today's lesson is brought to you by the word "niggardly". Remember kids, don't attribute to racism what can be explained by Scandinavian language roots. -- Robert Royall

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                        Nish Nishant
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                        dan neely wrote:

                        Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar

                        Well a lot of Indians would mis-spell that too I'd think. Sadly for me, a lot of Indians mis-spell my name as "Nishanth" :-( Luckily no westerner has done that to me yet.

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                          If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you. Mine was 16MBit and I am pretty sure 30MBit FIOS is in my neighborhood so not the fastest where I live..

                          John

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                          John M. Drescher wrote:

                          If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you.

                          Oh okay - I missed that. Can you give me the direct URL to do that?

                          Regards, Nish


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                            John M. Drescher wrote:

                            If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you.

                            Oh okay - I missed that. Can you give me the direct URL to do that?

                            Regards, Nish


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                            John M Drescher
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                            http://comcast.p.delivery.net/m/p/com/wid/wideband.asp[^]

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                              http://comcast.p.delivery.net/m/p/com/wid/wideband.asp[^]

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                              Nish Nishant
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                              Thanks - seems they don't have the info yet. I entered a temporary mailinator address but did not receive anything yet. I am already on Comcast and I think I get 8 Mbps (or perhaps only 6 Mbps).

                              Regards, Nish


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                                If you follow the link below the advertisement and enter in your address they will tell you the speeds available to you. Mine was 16MBit and I am pretty sure 30MBit FIOS is in my neighborhood so not the fastest where I live..

                                John

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                                But you have to provide a email adress to find out :doh

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                                  Thanks - seems they don't have the info yet. I entered a temporary mailinator address but did not receive anything yet. I am already on Comcast and I think I get 8 Mbps (or perhaps only 6 Mbps).

                                  Regards, Nish


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                                  John M Drescher
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                                  Nishant Sivakumar wrote:

                                  I am already on Comcast and I think I get 8 Mbps (or perhaps only 6 Mbps).

                                  That is what I got the last time I checked with speedtest. http://www.speedtest.net/[^]

                                  John

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                                    But you have to provide a email adress to find out :doh

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                                    John M Drescher
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                                    For me it just required my street address. I am a comcast customer though.

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                                      The interesting bit about the ad is that there's absolutely no mention of the speeds :-) Just saying "fast" or "fastest" or "fastest fast (sic)" is all nice, but it'd be nice if they mentioned some actual mbps numbers.

                                      Regards, Nish


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                                      Douglas Troy
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                                      You know you're in a room full of nerds, when you post a thread with a humorous video about High-Speed internet using a Rabbit-Panther-Jet-Enabled-Hairless-thingie being driven by an overly-caffeinated-jet-pilot-with-a-led-foot and everyone's discussing what their actual download speeds are ... I feel like I've just told a joke to Mr. Spock, and he's standing there, staring at me, eyebrow raised, saying "It's not logical Douglas, they didn't mention actual speeds.". ;p

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                                        Because ... it's just funny. Comcast High Speed Field Test[^]

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                                        Lost User
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                                        Ok that was funny, but CrapCast still sucks :laugh: They will only stop sucking when (if!) they fix their P2P policy and their inconsistent lying about it.

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                                          You know you're in a room full of nerds, when you post a thread with a humorous video about High-Speed internet using a Rabbit-Panther-Jet-Enabled-Hairless-thingie being driven by an overly-caffeinated-jet-pilot-with-a-led-foot and everyone's discussing what their actual download speeds are ... I feel like I've just told a joke to Mr. Spock, and he's standing there, staring at me, eyebrow raised, saying "It's not logical Douglas, they didn't mention actual speeds.". ;p

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                                          John M Drescher
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                                          Now I did think the video was funny, quite funny at that.. However my involvement in the discussion about speeds is because I do not believe a darn word that they say. There is no other company that I have business with that I trust less. And most of this is distrust is generated by the constant barrage of false adverts / borderline lies that I see every single day as a customer. Eventually, when I call them to disconnect my service this will be one of the reasons I mention. The other will be the rate hikes and service changes (moving popular channels to different packages forcing upgrades).

                                          John

                                          modified on Friday, February 27, 2009 2:14 PM

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