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post #61 of 75
2/24/10 at 12:56am
good read.. nice find OP.

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Originally Posted by KG363 View Post
I pay $55 for 18mbit/s

or at least my dad does. ATT just upgraded us for free from 12Mbps
lucky.. I have to deal with 99 dollars for 9 mbit/s every month


*jealous*



I guess it's time to move to florida
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post #62 of 75
2/24/10 at 1:05am
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Originally Posted by FSF-Foxhound View Post
good read.. nice find OP.



lucky.. I have to deal with 99 dollars for 9 mbit/s every month


*jealous*



I guess it's time to move to florida
Lucky you, Im stuck with satellite for $100/month for a 1.5mb connect, which during peak is no faster than dial up.
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post #63 of 75
2/24/10 at 1:28am
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Originally Posted by allenkane View Post
Not to be a party pooper here, but if we spent some of our tax money on networking instead of wars, we'd already have 100mbps everywhere.

This might come as news to some people, but I still have to pay $50/month for 3mbps down/896kbps up on DSL. You might get 100mbps for that much, but I can't. I can't even get more than 3mbps and if I could, it would cost me a small fortune.

It's a welcome change for me.
3.0 is good..some people have access to only dialup!
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post #64 of 75
2/24/10 at 3:58am
320Kbs max DL and never getting higher then 56Kbs Dl in real world dl's thats what I get for 50$ a month as DSL ><
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post #65 of 75
2/24/10 at 4:01am
Even their internet connections are fat and lazy.
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post #66 of 75
2/24/10 at 4:07am
coming from 100MB/100MB for roughly ~50 USD per month.... it took some serious getting used to US's crappy 1.5 MB down/768 up.

now I have charters 2.0 MB down and its costing me almost 80 USD per month.
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post #67 of 75
2/24/10 at 4:22am
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coming from 100MB/100MB for roughly ~50 USD per month....
Where were you getting that?
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post #68 of 75
2/24/10 at 4:33am
Oh my God Beric said it perfectly.

In my area, mostly low income and minorities, Charter Communication is the only serviced offered here.

I've literally tried:
ATT
Verizon
Clear
3G and 4G connectivity from all companies
Satellite connectivity via ATT
Time Warner road runner
Sprint mobile hotspot
T-Mobile mobile hotspot

...I've tried all of these but they DO NOT SERVICE THIS AREA.



Pathetic.
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post #69 of 75
2/24/10 at 5:16am
I used to get steady 1.5mb down and ~65ms ping, and since I have been paying $50 a month for this qwest crap (only ISP that isn't dialup here, which is dildos, I am only 2 miles out of town!) it has been slowly degrading and now is this.


And this was my all time low, last month. DSL Slower than Dialup=Qwest.
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post #70 of 75
2/24/10 at 5:22am
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Where were you getting that?
oh, this was back in South Korea.
Now that I think about it, it was more like 40 bucks / month.
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