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On Sat, 17 May 2008 07:34:22 -0400 (EDT) "Scott R. Ehrlich" <[hidden email]> wrote: > On Fri, 16 May 2008, Tom Metro wrote: > > > Bill Horne wrote: > >> And the other posters are correct: Comcast is evil. > > > > Speaking of Comcast, I received a postcard from them this week promoting an > > "Economy Internet" service. > > > > The ad focuses on all the junk software and services they bundle, and > > conveniently doesn't mention the data rate anywhere except in the fine print. > > > > How slow is it? 768 Kbps. Funny, given all the ads they've ran over the past > > few years pointing out how much faster cable modem service was compared to > > 768 Kbps DSL (even though most DSL users are probably running at 1.5 Mbps). > > > > So for only $25/month you get all the speed of a $15 DSL connection and all > > the port filtering of Comcast. > > > > -Tom > > > > Hi Tom: > > We switched to economy speed several months back to help save money - we > didn't really need to extra speed if I have to pay for it out of pocket, > which I do. > > I routinely get ~90KB/sec downloads per Firefox download window > reportings. > > Overall, I have no problems with it.
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