Just a few miscellaneous items. The cable went out tonight for the first time since I’ve been a Comcast subscriber, which is now several months. It was out for a little more than an hour and a half, and it was mostly annoying because the Internet connection was out with it. I called Comcast and…
Whoa! Okay, here are the results. I compared 2 files of similar size, although they may be off by +/- a few megabytes: DSL: 43 minute long episode of Battlestar Galactica: 54 minutes to download. Cable: 45 minute long episode of Battlestar Galactica: 13 minutes to download. That is pretty damn impressive! All of this…
The Comcast guy got here at about 10:30 and it was surprising how easy it was for him to get my cable setup. There were two minor snags, one of which is resolved, the other of which is pending. I couldn’t get my computers connected to the internet unless I was directly connected to the…