MAMEWorld Forums - The Loony Bin - Re: no cap over the summer

> > I dropped them 7 months ago after repeated bill hikes EVERY month. Went with Uverse
> > thinking that the DSL coming in would be a bit slower. It's actually smoked my
> > comcast service in just about every aspect...and I was pretty happy with the
> Comcast
> > speeds. The 15/3 I have now feels a great deal quicker than the 20/5 I was
> supposedly
> > getting before. Leads me to believe they were throttling pretty aggressively.
>
> I believe it's still true that with cable internet, you share bandwidth with everyone
> in your area. If you were on an especially congested node, you were probably never
> seeing anything like the full rated speed of your line, even without any throttling
> from Comcast.

It never seemed like congestion. Saw that a lot in Denver. This was definitely more of a consistent throttle.