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Posted by Kenneth J. Harris on March 17, 2006, 5:06 pm
It's 2Mbps up on their standard service, and usually does a tiny bit better.
Ken
mike wrote:
> OOL claims to offer 30 Mbps down and 2 Mbps up on their BOOST service.
> In the week or so that I've been using it, the most I've seen is about
> 18 Mbps down and 1.2 Mbps up.
>
> The bottom line is that BOOST is not noticeably faster than their
> "standard" (15M down/1M up) service, and thus not worth the additional
> $14/mo tariff. This is especially true when you consider their
> ridiculous 128 kbps cap on port 80 traffic.
>
> I'm planning to shift back to their standard service shortly.
>
>
>
> newskat@katxyzkave.net says...
>
>>
>>
>>>Beware if you attempt to run a webserver on Optimum Online's new BOOST
>>>service. Although OOL allows you to run your own website on port 80
>>>(it's not blocked), they CAP BANDWIDTH at 128 kpbs...so don't think
>>>about running anything more than a VERY basic site. Other ports aren't
>>>capped and run closer to 700-900 kpbs.
>>
>>What do they claim to offer upstream?
>>
>>Hardly ANY cable modem ISP offers anything more
>>than 384K up on their standard service.
>>
>>And, you can run a webserver on ANY port.
>>
>>
>>
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>>
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>>
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