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| The ISP Giants The ISP giants bypass rural America, or give very poor service and slow bandwidth while charging monster prices, and patting themselves on the back while they gobble up more urban areas. The only telco in the US that is worth a hoot is still Ma Bell. It's 50 miles from where I live, but that's all right mama,. my local homespun company gives me 7Mbps down which is more than the nearest phone company can provide at any price. Their idea a great deal is dial-up speeds and free national and national calling for $120+ tax. I am supposed to be wildly delerious when I left another system in rural America that was charging me $30 for a solid !.5 down.
The whole thing is PR smoke and mirrors. If you live in rural America you get what you get unless you get lucky and find one that bucks the system lo\ike Sonic.net and wins. It is what it is, and what I have now is far better than what I had with Cox, AT&T, Century Telephone the other Wanna-Be that Cox sold out to; it was so bad I forget the name.
The bottom line is this. The fastest processor in the world in the fastest game machine built will only cruise as fast as your Internet connection. If you live in rural America that ain't very fast. If you can play on-line games be grateful because it is not going to get much better or much faster despite all the promised the Giant Telcos make. They lie.
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