Mr Matt
join:2008-01-29
Eustis, FL
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| More high tech Bologni from the ISP's  Imagine going to the gas station and the proprietor tells you a Gallon of Gas can be anywhere from 64 Ounces to 128 Ounces. The proprietor of the gas station would go to jail and the station would be closed.
I had a friend, that was paying for a 3Mbps DSL Connection, when I checked, was getting a download speed of 500Kbps to 600Kbps through BellSouth DSL. After BellSouth Technicians changed out a poor quality cable pair, replaced the modem and added a dedicated splitter. Download speed increased to about 750Kbps. BellSouth's excuse was that my friend was too many cable feet from the Central Office. The only other choice my friend was given was that for about $20.00 per month, he would get a 256Kbps download speed. It is time that the ISP's provide more price levels so that customers do not wind up paying for a 3Mbps connection and only getting a download speed of 750Kbps. The telephone company management is not smart enough to realize that is the reason that so many customers are moving from DSL to Cable. |
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| That's just not a fair comparison. A better comparison would be if the gas station ran a hose to your house and charged you based on the number of gallons per minute pumped.
Pump speed, eleveation change, hose type, diameter, curves would all effect how many gallons per minute pumped.
I think you get the rest, I'm too tired to type it. |
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Let me fix your comparison.
Imagine going to the gas station and the proprietor tells you a Gallon of Gas can take any where from 64 to 128 seconds to pump.
You still get your gallon but the amount of time it takes to pump that gallon will vary. |
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| But, when you buy gas, you're not paying a higher rate for the pump to go faster... |
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You do realize that on a 3mb DSL connection you will generally download at about 280kbps don't you?
Never will you download at 3000kbps unless you have a 30meg connection and there is no 30mb DSL service out there that I know of. |
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| said by Skippy25:You do realize that on a 3mb DSL connection you will generally download at about 280kbps don't you? Never will you download at 3000kbps unless you have a 30meg connection and there is no 30mb DSL service out there that I know of. I'm assuming you mean on a 3mb DSL connecting you'll download at 280KBps (kiloByte). Even that is wrong. I got an effecive downstream throughput of just over 2600kbps on my AT&T 3 meg connection. That works out to about 320 kilobytes a second, and I frequently got that much throughput, both on speed tests and real world downloads. (And yes, it took virtually forever to download the real world.) |
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