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Re: broadband
Richard Kelly wrote:
which
> is worse than being taken roughly from behind by Hitler's corpse.
Gotta love that imagery!
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> At the end of the day, if you live in a capital city in Australia you can
> get decent broadband but at a hefty price.
>
> What's the state of affairs in other countries? What type of plan are you
> all on?
>
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I've got ADSL that just started up here in September, it blows for large
file downloading, p2p, and online gaming. The problem is latency,
because they are shooting this connection from here to a Sat in the sky
all the way to Colorado then to wherever I'm getting my info from. And
that time it takes to exchange information from the void of space over
Nome to Colorado is not liked by games, severs, torrents, streaming
data, and many other things. I always get DC/ed from online games,
torrents take weeks (where as on cable took hours/days), my IM programs
always kill my log ins, and I get offline msgs to me while I am statused
as "online." I pay $85 a month for it and hate it. All the speed tests I
do indicate my speed is SLOWER than DIAL UP. Once I get bills paid I am
going back to the Cable 1.5MB line, which was very decent for where I am.
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