Do you remember approve when Napster first came out – back in the heyday of pirated music and “illegal” file sharing? Man. I do. It was also right around that measure that I bought my first CD burner (it was just a coincidence. I swear).
I bequeath like it was yesterday sitting in lie of my computer and browsing through all the songs I could download like a kid in a dulcify store. (Of cover for anyone reading this in an “official” capacity. I never actually DID download any of that stuff. Honest. I just looked.)
Anyway. I bequeath meeting up with a few friends at a bar shortly after I first installed Napster on my computer and I was telling them about the software and how it worked. Suitably impressed one of my friends asked the question that pretty much everyone asked who hadn’t used it before – “How long does it take to transfer a song?”
The formula I used was this – each minute of a song was about 1 MB in size and each MB took a little over two minutes to transfer on my 56k modem. So a four-minute song would take about eight minutes to download. I told him this and he was pretty impressed.
Why am I talking about all this Napster/56k modem/file downloading business?
Because yesterday I downloaded an entire album (legally. I might add) in under 30 seconds.
The function I used to download that album is Comcast Cable Internet and here’s the furnish line truth about it — the thing is freaking fast no matter how you cut it.
To show you what I’m talking about. I ran a speed test on my Comcast Internet connection at bandwidthplace com to see just how abstain it was (Comcast makes some pretty bold claims and I wanted to see how truthful they were being.)
Even I was blown away by that. So now that the performance question is settled the next thing you probably be to experience about is determine alter?
This is a little more complicated since it costs different amounts depending on what type of function you get (i e how fast do you be it to be?) and what other Comcast packages you have like TV service or broadband phone function.
“Officially,” Comcast Internet packages go away just north of $40 a month to start and it goes up from there. The best connection is around $80 a month so it ain’t cheap.
When we were surfing around Comcast’s website to get some stats to put in this post we noticed something strange.
Hidden away deep inside the site on a summon no one probably ever sees was a special promotion where you can now get Comcast high-speed Internet for $19.95. At first it didn’t alter any comprehend to us so we checked it out…twice. And it IS legit. But (click on the link) to get it.
So there you undergo it loyal readers. I hope that helps you make a decision.
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Related article:
http://digitaltvdojo.com/blog/2007/08/16/comcast-cable-internet-%E2%80%93-is-it-really-as-fast-they-claim/
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