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Re: broadband
"Zynnoushes" <s0z@wicked.net> schreef in bericht
news:45d6b0b0@news.arctic.net...
> Basement wrote:
>
>> "Bob" <bob0173@aol.com> schreef in bericht
>> news:1171684078.407100.228830@p10g2000cwp.googlegr oups.com...
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>>>On Feb 15, 11:34 pm, Zynnoushes <s...@wicked.net> wrote:
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>>>>Richard Kelly wrote:
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>>>> which
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>is worse than being taken roughly from behind by Hitler's corpse.
>>>>
>>>>Gotta love that imagery!
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>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?
>>>>
>>>>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:.
>>>
>>>
>>>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.
>>>
>>>--
>>>
>>>-Bob
>>>
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>>
>> What exactly is that 3 way calling? Cable and DSL are two completely
>> different things.
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> Yeah I LOLED that too.
>
> 3 way calling is where you call one person up and hit flash, dial a second
> number, hit flash again and both of the people you called can talk to you
> and them all at the same time.
>
> --
> Knowledge is power, unfortunately nobody cares about what I know!
>
>
> "And remember: two thirds of happiness...is penis"
> -Dennis Miller
>
> .:s|0|z:.
Sort of group convo then I guess? Sounds fun to try once, but not something
you'd do on a regular basis or something I need
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