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What's your broadband speed?

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What's your broadband speed?
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#51
RE: What's your broadband speed?
August 15, 2011 at 8:10 pm (This post was last modified: August 15, 2011 at 8:17 pm by Justtristo.)
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The phone lines in my city are rubbish, because a lot of them have to go through sub-exchanges from the main exchange (like mine does), which adds like a kilometer on the length of the aging copper cables. That means I am nearly at the end of the lines from the main exchange.
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RE: What's your broadband speed?
August 15, 2011 at 8:35 pm
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One of the cheapest and lowest speeds virgin do, could easily do 100mb for a bit extra but I just don't download that much and don't have the HD space to keep it all if I did.
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RE: What's your broadband speed?
August 15, 2011 at 8:39 pm
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Considering I was told that my phone line could only support 8 mb/s this is pretty good. Seems fast enough for all the stuff I need to do...
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RE: What's your broadband speed?
August 15, 2011 at 9:14 pm (This post was last modified: August 15, 2011 at 9:14 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
Hmn, technical difficulties. It's garbage. 1.28 down, .31 up.
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RE: What's your broadband speed?
August 15, 2011 at 9:23 pm
Not too bad considering everyone it's a wireless connection and everyone in the neighborhood is probably on the computer about now.

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April 3, 2012 at 1:17 am
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While it doesn't seem that bad, i absolutely HATE this ISP... Sadly they're the only ones offering service out here.. Comcast pretty much sold us to them.. Been nothing but trouble since!
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RE: Post your connection speed
April 3, 2012 at 1:36 am
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Where is "out here?"
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RE: Post your connection speed
April 3, 2012 at 1:43 am
Roughly five miles from a small town in southern Illinois, we're JUST far out that nothing is offered... It really sucks.
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RE: Post your connection speed
April 3, 2012 at 2:11 am
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I have Clearwire. It's pretty inexpensive, and I think it's fast. I don't have to let streaming movies buffer, most of the time, and I don't do very much downloading/uploading. My modem is also connected to a router, which has 2 other computers, and a Wii hooked up to it, so that might have something to do with it. I don't know.
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RE: Post your connection speed
April 3, 2012 at 2:53 am
The reason I asked is because it lists the "server" for my ISP as Mexicali which is several hundred miles away. I'm just NW of Phoenix which makes me skeptical of their claims.

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