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Surprisingly, in Myrtle Beach, SC we have multiple high speed providers choices: HTC (as in htcinc.net, a local telco cooperative offering gigabit fiber), or Spectrum, who just minutes ago I heard for the first time that their new default tier in our area is 100mbps. Not sure if they go much hiher though, because a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that expansion.

Either way, I'm happy with my high speed fiber service. And I likely have competition to thank.




>a few years ago TWC was going to offer 300mbps cable service, and then the Spectrum merger cancelled that expansion.

Are you sure they don't offer that? I live in Charlotte, and that's what I have.


300 down should be the new Ultra tier everywhere Spectrum has upgraded the base speed to 100.


They are also bringing gigabit by end of 2018: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/chart...


Not sure I’d call 940/35Mbps gigabit (better providers use that to refer to 1/1Gbps — Charter’s marketing wank doesn’t sit too well :/)


Comcast is at 1gbps/35mbps.

What's the overhead of ACKs? It feels to me that you probably couldn't saturate the connection without getting buffer bloated by ACK traffic, at which point can it really be called 'gigabit' if it's not theoretically attainable?


ACKs are TCP, not IP. They only claim 1gbps for IP traffic, not TCP.


Just double-checked, apparently 120mbps down (no mention of up speed) is the fastest available.


But you have to realize you’re in the minority in this country.




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