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06-Jul-2008, 03:45 PM #121
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You know, the fastest I could possibly get (short of paying loads to get a T3 line) is Verizon 3 meg ADSL. Currently, I have 768K ADSL.

Some people here can get no better than 24 KBps Dialup.

The fastest connection I've ever used is a 15 meg RR connection, which, I believe is also the fastest you could get in this county. I really see no difference in browsing between the 15 meg and my 768K connection. Downloads are much faster, sure, but given that I can download a copy of Firefox in a minute and a big DVD Linux ISO overnight, I really don't see the need for more speed.
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07-Jul-2008, 08:55 AM #122
Get more than one person working on that line, and you'll quickly discover why the faster service is handy.

An interesting side issue. I recently upgraded my uplink speed to match the downlink speed, 15mbit/15mbit, and that significantly speeded up a lot of operations on the Internet. I wouldn't have thought it would make a lot of difference, but I'd have been wrong.
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07-Jul-2008, 09:43 AM #123
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Get more than one person working on that line, and you'll quickly discover why the faster service is handy.

An interesting side issue. I recently upgraded my uplink speed to match the downlink speed, 15mbit/15mbit, and that significantly speeded up a lot of operations on the Internet. I wouldn't have thought it would make a lot of difference, but I'd have been wrong.
Oh yeah, I bet it does. The most I ever have using it at the same time is two other people, and with it being just browsing I don't notice it. Of course, the second someone decides to download something, I notice it.
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07-Jul-2008, 07:24 PM #124
Well, with a whole bunch of computers around here, when things get busy, I use more of the bandwidth.
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09-Jul-2008, 02:39 PM #125
Very Nice site.

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09-Jul-2008, 08:42 PM #126
You're right, that's pretty slow, but not as slow as a lot of folks have!

Talk about being jaded! It's not that many years ago that most of us were using dial-up 56kbit connections, not megabits are considered slow.
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