What Internet provider do you use and what speed?

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(11-09-2015, 04:24 PM)djs7685 Wrote: I've taken basic networking courses. It's somewhat interesting, somewhat boring stuff. You're far too caught up in the word "speed" to understand my entire point.

If someone is shopping around for internet and they know absolutely nothing about technology, telling them "oh, there's no real difference in speed between 3 Mb/s and 25 Mb/s service!" is just as misleading as Comcast trying to sell their silly 150 Mb/s packages to the average Joe.

You're way caught up in the term "speed" in this, but what else do you want to call it for you to not blow a gasket over this? If you have 3 Mb/s service, there's no possible way you'll ever have the capability of downloading a large patch for a video game at a faster rate. You can be as upset as you like about referring to this as "speed", but maybe just understand what I'm saying while claiming that I'm ignorant to the subject due to your obsession with semantics.

Call it capacity because that's what it is. They aren't selling you a speed they are selling you a max capacity of all data moved between you and servers at any given time.