RTP-area local music and culture

[David Ranney <dranney AT gmail.com>]

Thanks Ross, that's interesting.

-Dave

On Aug 4, 5:21=A0pm, gr... AT ibiblio.org (Ross Grady) wrote:
> =A0 Our interns' apartments came with Clearwire this year. When I was
> setting up their WAPs, I was thinking "hmm, wonder how well it works" so
> I did a bunch of speed tests, and was getting 8Mb/sec or more.
>
> Which seemed pretty awesome, until the interns actually arrived, and
> started actually trying to use the stuff, at which point they were
> getting something closer to oldschool original DSL speeds or worse (i.e.
> in the 300kb/sec range or below), especially during the night/weekend hou=
rs.
>
> So after a couple of weeks we switched them back to RoadRunner.
>
> Ross
>
> On 08/04/2010 05:13 PM, David Ranney wrote:
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> > On Aug 4, 3:55=3DA0pm, koeg... AT email.unc.edu wrote:
> >> Does anyone have recommendations for internet service providers in
> >> Durham besides Time Warner? I've got TWC now but want to switch (my
> >> rate went up). =3DA0Verizon apparently doesn't offer internet in the 2=
7707
> >> area.
>
> >> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --http://list=
s.i=3D
> > biblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
>
> > I don't have a recommendation but I would be curious to know if anyone
> > has tried this:
>
> >http://www.clearwirelessinternet.com/
>
> > They allegedly do provide service in 27707.
>
> > -Dave
> > -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --
> >http://lists.ibiblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene
>
> -- ch-scene: the list that mirrors alt.music.chapel-hill --http://lists.i=
biblio.org/mailman/listinfo/ch-scene