On 3/5/10 9:56 PM, Peter Kim wrote:
I remember trying to get 1.5 Mb/s DSL 7 years ago, through SBC, now AT&T, in suburban Chicago. I found out that I was too far away from the new optical fiber install, and had to settle for 768/256Kbs- the houses across the street could get up to 3 Mb/s. Ugh, I can't believe we're still talking about the same issues in this country- 7 years later. I was eventually able to get a 3 Mb/s line, now considered the middle package- but please, with optical fiber that's theoretically equivalent to child's play. Clear and Sprint WiMax look pretty good at this point.
My DSL was supposed to be good for 1.5 MBps / 256 KBps IIRC. I was only getting maybe half that. I'm out on the edge of coverage but not far enough out to be near a B-Box. When I was having trouble with the service the tech said with the line I had I couldn't get any faster service. So I signed up with Cable. I had held off going that route because I don't like the cable company, but...
I kind of wish I'd signed up a little sooner, all those linux distro downloads would have been much faster.
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