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Re: Not always ISPs fault You have a point in that that performance is linked to the quality of the infrastructure at client level. That I can swallow. Its the cases where you have been provisioned at 8 MB/768 on a DSL line by the SALES team,and you get less than 1.2/300 max during non-peaked hours and you are running a home run directly from the NID to your modem. Support says with a straight face that they can't and won't provide anywhere near the speeds sales says to expect yet tell you in the same breath that you STILL have to pay the top tier pricing because that is what they charge you even if they can't provide it.
I have a quad-core AMD 940 with 4 GB memory and running Windows 7 professional and believe me I have NEVER gotten anywhere near the up to speeds that were presented to me . The ISPs for the most part are flat out lying to their customers on what they will actually see and will continue to pick our wallets while the FCC kisses their collective butts. The FCC knows where the money is coming from. The American consumer, if they want internet services ha one of two options pay more and more for less and less or no service. No US or local gov't agency is going to do crap to change that de- reality. |
