> -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:hardware- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Winterlight > Sent: Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:20 PM > To: The Hardware List > Subject: Re: [H] Weird BitTorrent problem But that's > > At 12:03 PM 3/25/2006, you wrote: > >HAHAHAHAHAHAHA > > > >2003 called.... > > > >Cable and phone companies are giving bandwidth away these days. Thank > >goodness for FIOS (not that I would ever touch anything from Verizon) - > >their precense made Cox drop my broadband bill to 29.99 and upped my > >download to 15Mb/s and uploads to 5Mb/s. > > Not COX where I am ... still paying 39.95 for 4Mb/s down and 512Kb > up....and I am standing 20 feet away from a fiber optic line..... where was > this?
I suspect it's market-specific.. 'cuz it sure the hell ain't true here in Vegas where I'm capped at $49.99 for 5Mb/s down and Cox clearly holds a strangle-hold monopoly... And Torrent speeds crawl... But that's probably all the Terabytes of Porn being downloaded at 4AM.... Bill
