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Re: They aren't incorrect. said by Matt:said by Cabal:Current speeds ARE more than adequate for the vast majority of users. Remember, hobbyists reading BBR are far from a majority of users, or even common at that. We are a very small, overly vocal, minority. I get complaints all the time from people who hate how long it takes to send pictures via email. They don't know WHY it's taking so long and once I explain that it's because Time Warner cable or AT&T don't give them much in the way of upstream speeds, they understand ... and usually aren't very happy. The majority of people just accept it as "How things are". They don't understand that it doesn't HAVE to be that way. My GF thought her 5Mbps/384Kbps Road Runner was just fine until she moved in with me and saw how much faster and easier it was to do things with 2Mbps upstream. Agreed.
A few months back I was selling a truck. A woman called, and asked about pictures, because at the time I didn't have pictures in my ad (I know, I know).
The pictures were originally 1,280 x 1,024. I asked if she used dial-up, since her area code suggested she lived in rural Missouri. She said that she did.
Because I took pity on her, I decided that I would manually scale down each picture to 320 x 256. I didn't like doing so, but I did so because I knew how extremely slow dial-up is.
As far as my own experience, I could use more than 256k upload, but Charter Business HSI is EXPENSIVE.
Hopefully I can switch to AT&T Static IP DSL soon. The monthly cost is slightly higher, but at least I can get much faster speeds with them.
Charter Business HSI:
1.5M/256k, Static IP, 1yr. - $67/mo.
Note: This was the price in May 2007, the price has just got to be better now. If not then Charter can expect to die. The reason I signed up with them is because this part of town can't get DSL.
AT&T Static IP DSL:
6.0M/768k, Static IP, 1yr. - $80/mo. |
