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High Speed Internet

How fast is it?

With GEUS high speed cable access you will fly down the Internet superhighway with access speeds of up to 6 megabits per second (60 to 100 times faster than a standard 56 kb telephone modem).

The table below compares cable download access time with telephone modems.

File size
28.8 k modem
56 k Modem
128k
3 mbps
Cable Modem
Typical 100k Web Page
35 seconds
19 seconds
8 seconds
less than 1 second
5 Megabyte data or video file
29 minutes
17 minutes
6.5 minutes
less than 20 seconds


The computer screens below demonstrate this speed differential.
Place your cursor on either screen to activate a speed comparison demonstration.
(Note: The GEUS home page is 72 k. It will load slightly faster than the "Typical 100k Web Page" listed above.)

load time comparison
Our cable network divides the city into nodes. To prevent deterioration in the speed of service as the number of system subscribers increases, GEUS will limit each node in the network to a maximum of 250 subscribers, creating additional nodes as necessary.


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