oliphant
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA | I had 7.1 with DSLx
And it was great...everything but the price. Don't price it in the stratosphere and you'd have more takers.
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join:2003-07-22
Conklin, NY
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| said by oliphant  :And it was great In what way? What could you possibly find to d/l at that speed? I'm at 4.7 Mbps (570 KB/s) but rarely find anything which will d/l above 200 KB/s. I suppose you could d/l several movies or iso's simultaneously but you'd need a stack of blank DVDs to store all that stuff.
Unless you have a very large family or are providing wireless to the neighborhood, I don't see what use this is. |
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oliphant
I Have 8 Boobies
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join:2004-11-26
Corona, CA
2 edits | With DAP5 and Newsbin I had no problem saturating my connection when downloading from most sites. I also used it with my business backing up my office servers. From work I would upload large drive images on a rotating basis to xDrive overnight, then download them the next day (while the next backup is uploading). I would do that maybe twice a week in lieu of incremental backups. In the case of usenet, it wasn't about volume, it's about getting the 1 or 2 things I wanted in just over 1/3 the time. And while I'm doing those things it was nice to throttle newsbin to 6Mb and play XBL or something else.
But as I mentioned...it was cool, but not $150/mo cool. I just tried it for a month so see how valuable I found it. Turns out I'd rather have the $100 and let my backups take 3X longer to download. I would probably have kept it if it were under $100...mainly for the speed of getting my backups xfered.
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join:2003-07-22
Conklin, NY | OK, for business use, but for 99% of home users it is of little use. |
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oliphant
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Corona, CA | More than 768/128 kbps is probably of little use to 99% of home users as most home users are simply surfing the net and picking up email.
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SRFireside
join:2001-01-19
Houston, TX
| True, but then again Roadrunner can't very well say they are up to four times faster than DSL and the Bell's don't want to sound like they are inferior. The speed race is in full throttle, and that in turn will kick up marketing for FIOS and other fibre to the curb offerings in the future. |
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