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300 down should be the new Ultra tier everywhere Spectrum has upgraded the base speed to 100.

They are also bringing gigabit by end of 2018: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/chart...

Not sure I’d call 940/35Mbps gigabit (better providers use that to refer to 1/1Gbps — Charter’s marketing wank doesn’t sit too well :/)

Comcast is at 1gbps/35mbps.

What's the overhead of ACKs? It feels to me that you probably couldn't saturate the connection without getting buffer bloated by ACK traffic, at which point can it really be called 'gigabit' if it's not theoretically attainable?

ACKs are TCP, not IP. They only claim 1gbps for IP traffic, not TCP.

Just double-checked, apparently 120mbps down (no mention of up speed) is the fastest available.