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Re: broadband
"Bob" <bob0173@aol.com> schreef in bericht
news:1171684078.407100.228830@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
> On Feb 15, 11:34 pm, Zynnoushes <s...@wicked.net> wrote:
>> Richard Kelly wrote:
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>> which
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>> > 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.
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>> > 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.
>>
>> --
>> Knowledge is power, unfortunately nobody cares about what I know!
>>
>> "And remember: two thirds of happiness...is penis"
>> -Dennis Miller
>>
>> .:s|0|z:.
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> I have a highspeed cable connection through Comcast(not sure if thats
> the same as dsl...) and pay $50 a month for that plus my phone
> service(anywhere in the states,Canada and somewhere else is all
> free,answering machine,3 way calling..pretty sweet) as a package.
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> --
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> -Bob
>
What exactly is that 3 way calling? Cable and DSL are two completely
different things.
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