rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL | Re: Honestly Yep.
If you junked all those slow DSL lines running 256k connections and went with only 1.5 or higher, cable would probably be smoking DSL.
If you want to truly measure how "good" the USA is see how many 6 meg or higher subs there are. | |
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Karl Bode
News Guy
join:2000-03-02 | Re: Honestly But that would indicate fairly paltry coverage and the FCC would be forced to slap the knuckles of the people who comp them Vegas airline tickets. That would be unacceptable. | |
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N3OGH
Bear patrol must be working like a charm
Premium
join:2003-11-11
Philly burbs
 ·Verizon FIOS
 ·Verizon Online DSL
| said by rachelsfx  :Yep. If you junked all those slow DSL lines running 256k connections and went with only 1.5 or higher, cable would probably be smoking DSL. If you want to truly measure how "good" the USA is see how many 6 meg or higher subs there are. Like the 6 meg line I was supposed to be getting from Comcast that was, in all actuality, a 2.7 meg line.
And yes, I checked the signal strength, tweaked my system, replaced my router, blah blah blah. All I got out of Comcast was 2.7 meg and a bill for $46 at the end of the month.
My DSL connection is $26/mo, and I get 3 megs down from them (for real!) and better upstream speed.
Same speed for close to half the price, sounds like a deal to me....
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pabster
join:2001-12-09
Waterloo, IA | Exactly. I also have a sneaky feeling the telco's are including ISDN connections (Yes, they still exist) as 'broadband'.
The FCC's 200Kbps definition and classification as an 'advanced service line' is laughable. | |
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 | bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here
| Re: Honestly ISDN200k ergo it's not counted.
A lot of people only want the cheapest connection which is where 768k and 256k come in. If they sold 56k DSL at 10$ a month we'd see people getting it. Most Americans just want basic internet and speed is not important to them outside of surfing. | |
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| hurfy
Premium
join:2002-08-06
Spokane, WA | hehe FCC wants to define my old wimpy dsl as advanced and you all want to define it as nothing.
I am thinking we need a definition that gets my old 640k in the middle  | |
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