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Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 10:38 am
by Darthness
it hsould be, considering everythings being rebuilt anyway :P

i was told by my data comm. teacher that you can sometimes request (and pay extra) your provider to give you a fiber optic line, as i belive they are fiber optic (maybe that sjust in cable) until they get to a box in your neighborhood, at that point it goes to coax to save money.

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 11:58 am
by GlassWolf
see: FIOS

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 3:02 pm
by Chris from Washington
since DSL and Cable just got to my areas 2 years ago, I think FIOS will be about 30 years from now for me :(

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 5:10 pm
by Darthness
lol. sucks for youi :P we've had cable internet for damn near 7 years here

funny because charleston isn't a very big city.

Posted: Sat Sep 23, 2006 9:27 pm
by KrisB410
Although I really don't know much about it, my results were

download speed: 6188 Kbps
upload speed: 360 kbps

Damn Comcast llimits the upload speeds!

Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 6:05 am
by Darthness
yeah. otherwise every other customer would be serving mp3's over p2p networks or running severs out of their bedrooms.

thats a nono