So, since I arrived in Gainesville, I’ve been using DSL for access to the internet. At 1600kbps download speed and 256kbps upload speed, it beat the 1500kbps/128kbps service offered by the cable company, even if it was more expensive. But it’s always irked me that I needed to pay for a phone line that I didn’t use, just in order to have DSL internet. Happily now, the cable company has offered a higher tier of cable internet, at a price that is still much cheaper than DSL and the cost of a phone line. The service advertises 3000kbps downloads and 256kbps uploads… but now that I’ve installed the service, I just did multiple bandwidth measurements and found that the service is giving me in excess of 4000kbps downloads! I even got it to peak at 4200kbps. That’s screaming fast. I just canceled my phone service entirely. This affects you not at all, because no one really has my land line number excepting my mother, who calls me on my mobile number to inform me that I did not answer it. In fact, it did not even ring. Does anyone else find it ironic that you can cancel your phone service through an automated phone system? Unfortunately they make you pick a day for cancelling it… so I just chose tomorrow. It would really make me happy if, when you pressed “1” to confirm that you wanted to cancel your service, it just cut you off. “You have opted to cancel your…”