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To: LPStar
My experience with DSL was fairly disappointing. Other than the usual headaches associated with installation/provisioning and whatnot, once installed I got around 700K.

With cable I get over 2000K. After several months of service I had my first outage about two weekends ago.

In talking with the support folks I was told that on my "trunk" there were approx 160 customers.

Now I don't know if that is many or few but the speeds are wonderful.
15 posted on 04/24/2003 12:51:14 AM PDT by PFKEY
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To: PFKEY
I'm on satellite and just ran this test at the bandwidthplace:

1.1 megabits per second
Your raw speed was 1127168.52 bits per second which is the same as:
Communications

1.1 megabits per second How communication devices are rated. Kilo means 1,000 and mega means 1,000,000. Examples include 56k modem and 10Mbit Ethernet

Storage

137.6 kilobytes per second The way data is measured on your hard drive and how file sharing and FTP programs measure transfer speeds. Kilo is 1,024 and mega is 1,048,576.

1MB file download

7.4 seconds

The time it would take you to download a 1 megabyte file at this speed.

Rating
Compared to all connection types worldwide, yours is fantastic

17 posted on 04/24/2003 1:02:04 AM PDT by lotus
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