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 a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY
 ·Cingular Wireless
2 edits | reply to screavic4
Re: Location Location Location said by screavic4:I knew what you mean though  Another thing I hate it when they compare our broadband status to other nations like Japan and China, look at the number of people they have per square mile compared to the US. We are spread out and we have ALOT of land. Slightly OT, but I think they have a point in the sense that many of our CITIES don't have the level of broadband that large cities in Japan have. I mean, in cities like Tokyo, one can get reasonably priced gigabit service. Granted, it drops down to like 20 Mbit when downloading from overseas sources, that's still way faster than what many people in US cities can get. I live in the NYC metro area... (Queens, pretty high population density IMO... definitely profitable) yet my only wired options are Verizon DSL (7.1 meg maximum) and TWC's RatRunner (advertised 7 mbps that drops down to more like 2 mbps during evenings). Speakeasy and DSLextreme could get 10 mbps business ADSL2+ to me, at the amazing rate of $120/month. Heck, for that price, I could just get three 7.1 meg residential DSL lines and use a cheap linux box to do load-balancing. Point being.... my area is STILL at least 2-4 years away from FiOS, and that's after the whole NYC franchise deal that we all know Verizon will stick to......
/end of rant
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a333A hot cup of integrals please
join:2007-06-12
Rego Park, NY Reviews:
·Cingular Wireless
| Depends..... Queens, NY can be technically called a county, but it is one of the five boroughs of NYC, and it sure as hell is pretty densely populated.....
It really comes down to specific population/general layout of the area I guess....
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