also know as high speed cable inernet access. I’m told it is 400 times faster than an 56k modem. I haven’t been able to figure out what exactly to do to test that premise.
so go ahead dopers, tell what I can do now that I couldn’t before.
WOOOOOO HOOOOOO(not sure why but) WOOOOOO HOOOOOOO anyway
You just do it a whole lot faster… 
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It lets you run through the wall if you simply paint a trompe l’oeil style painting of the continuation of the road on it, while the coyote pursuing you with the Acme rocket pack is flattened against it.
If it makes you feel better, you can go to this site. Then you can marvel at graphs that show how fast your computer is downloading stuff that you probably should not donwload anyway.
You can download really huge things like 800 MB Linux distributions, games, videos, ect.
[sub]Pssst. You can download mp3s in under a minute.[sub]
WEW beat me to recommending the DSL reports site, go there to test your speed…as to what you can do, why you can download faster than a speeding bullet, leap tall…er…um you can watch movie trailers, live streaming audio and video with no buffering breaks, view people’s photo albums without waiting for big pictures to dowload…etc. It’s great, I couldn’t imagine going back to dial-up. When I use my brother’s computer (at his house) I get so impatient with his dial-up connection.
Wow, I did too, just this Monday!