I’ve joined the 21st century, and I now have internet. Comcast took about a week before I could get it installed, and even though I was told they’d called 30 minutes before they came, I only got 10 minutes of warning. So it was good that I stayed home until the end of the 4 hour window they gave me (8am-12, they came at 11:50). The installation involved a step where I could either install stuff on my computer — or not.

But bandwidth was what I really cared about, it was awful back in Waterloo, so I tried to measure it: So I tried to download as much as I could, and the results are: 8 gigs in 7.5 hours. And by looking at the graph, it’s more because I didn’t queue enough up.

I’ll see if it’s a temporary thing for new subscribers and they cap me down to 2kB/s after a week