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TOK:

--- Quote from: ahofle on June 10, 2008, 10:04:56 pm ---Damn TOK, enjoy that bandwidth while you can!  Are you in a newer neighborhood or something?
Here's mine:


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I'm in an area where Comcast and Verizon Fios are at each others throats for broadband customers. I was capped at 4 meg down/256 up less than three years ago. They keep upping the cap every 6 months.

hypernova:

--- Quote ---At least you guys are doing broadband speeds. I'm stuck with dialup,
usually get 42Kbps, and I'm paying about $65/month (45 for the phone
line, 20 for the internet service)...Other than that, the only other option I have is a dish, which is pretty expensive.  I'm too far out in the boonies to get DSL and don't have cable available.
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I was in the same boat until around two years ago.  But my dialup was worse than yours.  Our phone lines only supported 28.8.  Didn't even get 56K.  It was an absolute godsend that the phone company finally made DSL available to us.  Cable still seems many years away, considering we were in Adelphia's territory, and with their current situation...And it's obvious ours is regular DSL, when looking at what other people have.

But geez, it's better than a 28.8K modem.

danny_galaga:

--- Quote from: CrazyKongFan on June 10, 2008, 10:04:41 pm ---At least you guys are doing broadband speeds. I'm stuck with dialup,
usually get 42Kbps, and I'm paying about $65/month (45 for the phone
line, 20 for the internet service). I'm thinking about going to one of those
wireless ones like Sprint or Alltel, for laptops, but they should work on
my PC too, as they connect via the USB port. Just gotta check into if
it's available for my area, and if there's any download limits. Other
than that, the only other option I have is a dish, which is pretty expensive.
I'm too far out in the boonies to get DSL and don't have cable available.

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except for the price youre paying, dont feel alone. im getting about the same speed as you- on broadband! told my housemate about it last night when i did a test. so eventually in a few months she might give them a call to see whats going on...

there was a poll for this just yesterday by the way:

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=81124.msg847235#msg847235

Turnarcades:
Yeah we know - this one was first, git hijacked me thread!

 :laugh2:

pointdablame:


Comcast just upped the limit in my area too.  This paints a really rosy picture though -- the Comcast service I have is pretty ---smurfy--- and they seem to be capping a lot of things these days.  I wish FIOS would roll out to my area already.. I'd love to get a dedicated 10 or 15mbps instead of this crap Comcast connection.

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