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Posted by Bill M. on July 1, 2007, 12:30 am
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>wbillups@hotmail.com says...
>> On Sat, 30 Jun 2007 17:30:42 -0400, MisterMax
>>
>> >Andrew Rossmann wrote:
>> >> ffgeorge@yourplace.com says...
>> >>> One more reason to rent...when they upgrade to the new software
>> >>> versions that the old ones are not compatible with. Happened to me
>> >>> last year, fortunately, for me, I also rent. They came out and
>> >>> replaced it no charge. I think it was the new "docsis" but that may be
>> >>> the wrong word. This year I upgraded to a "business" account and it
>> >>> was a different modem altogether. Even came with, for $5.00 per month,
>> >>> a static IP address. "Business" account itself is $75.00 more per
>> >>> month, but does give them just 24 hours to fix any outages. Just like
>> >>> a hi-rise downtown, they now show up and fix it when my neighborhood
>> >>> goes down.
>> >>
>> >> If you do buy, stick with a name brand. The Motorola SB5120 may not be
>> >> cheap, but it's extremely popular and common. Many rentals are either
>> >> the 5120 or a variation of it.
>> >>
>> >Comcast recently replaced my rented Motorola modem with a
>> >Scientific-Atlanta model DPC2100R2. Together with their faster service,
>> >I'm now achieving 40 to 60 KB per second, using PC Mag's Surfspeed.
>> >
>> >- Max
>>
>> 40 to 60 KB? Shouldn't you be getting more than 10 times that?
>
>The nature of the Surf Speed test is designed to more resemble the "real
>world", by accessing web pages from 6-8 operating web sites, such as
>MSN, AOL, Apple, Google, and Myspace. It opens multiple http
>connections, then randomly walks pages. So, it's maeasuring how quickly
>those sites serve up the pages to you.
>
>That's a pretty different number than the single-file downloads that
>most other test sites perform.
I'm not a fan of speed test sites in general, but that one seems to go
out of its way to be less valuable than most. <g>
I prefer to measure my speed with a utility like DUMeter or Bandwidth
Monitor, as two examples.
--
Bill
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