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Old Apr 8, 2007, 07:30 AM   #31
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Old Apr 8, 2007, 10:52 AM   #37
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my isp called last month to say there gonna double my speed, so by the end of this month i should have 8mbps down and 512 kbps up.
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Old Apr 8, 2007, 05:46 PM   #46
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that is WAY too expensive for that type of connection!
Yeah that is too much. btw. how fast connection you get with 50$?
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Yeah that is too much. btw. how fast connection you get with 50$?
i get 1.5Mbit DSL connection (my results on page 2 of this thread), but i don't pay $50, i pay $30. If i were to pay $50, i'd be getting FIOS/Fiber.
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Ok, because my connection is about 50$ month and I get 2Mbit / 0.5Mbit ADSL :P
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that is WAY too expensive for that type of connection!
and guess what? i can't even get ADSL2 speeds, simply because they haven;t updated my exchange, you think they would have inlate 2005 when they updated the exchange to actually support ADSL 1 speeds (was stuck on dial up for ~6 months)
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