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Old 10-26-2009, 04:23 PM  
xenigo
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Originally Posted by Lace View Post
dsl to fiber and it's not much difference? where are you located?

Verizon FIOS stomps Comcast Cable here, and Comcast kills any DSL around here. Friends of mine on FIOS are getting double the downstream and up at least over my cable.
Well it seems to have gotten quicker since the installation guy was here. I just tried fetching a Fedora linux ISO and I got 737kbps. Pretty quick. With the AT&T DSL, it went around 180kbps.

But I know people with Comcast who are doing 1000kbps, so I'm not as impressed as I think I should be.
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