[Homestead] was High speed Internet in the country, stuffing leaky spots

EarthNSky erthnsky at bellsouth.net
Mon Oct 27 11:53:39 EDT 2008



SJC wrote:
> EarthNSky wrote:
>> I've connected that slow before, but I average 16 to 18.  The fastest I 
>> get is 26.4 kbps.  What is your normal up there?
>>
>> B
>>   
> Generally on the desktop I get 19.9, but I'm sure that's a limitation 
> imposed by my modem.  For some reason modems are fair game for the phone 
> company; I swear they have some way to kill the things.....
> 
> The reason I think it's partly the modem is that I used to get up around 
> 30 or so pretty consistently when I was using my work computer. 


At least somebody else connects as slowly as I do.  I am not alone!

B

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