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Old 12-31-2007, 03:07 PM   #46 (permalink)
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at work...



nice!
of course it is all T-1, fibre, blah, blah, blah...
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Old 12-31-2007, 05:03 PM   #47 (permalink)
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nice!
How much would that cost me to get in my house?
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Old 12-31-2007, 05:11 PM   #48 (permalink)
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i'm sure it's on the order of 4 digits...

i think i remember someone pricing T1 access a while back, and it was prohibitively expensive to say the least.
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Old 01-01-2008, 11:27 PM   #49 (permalink)
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of course it is all T-1, fibre, blah, blah, blah...
It's probably multiple T1s multiplexed or a fractional DS3 - probably the latter. A single T1 is only 1.5Mb/s.

Still, very impressive - are you in an administrative office or at an actual store location?
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Old 01-02-2008, 01:21 AM   #53 (permalink)
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the best buy data center.

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well, think I can live with what I've got
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Old 01-03-2008, 11:00 AM   #56 (permalink)
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For an 8mbps connection, its reasonable i guess.
Wierd how it says my isp is easynet, i'm on sky.
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Old 01-03-2008, 01:57 PM   #57 (permalink)
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did it again from work to get a good average...



not sure why it's even faster.
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Old 01-06-2008, 05:42 AM   #59 (permalink)
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PHEW-I'll have to admit, i was worried someone may have come in and tried to taken my record of the SLOWEST internet on M-F.

This is fun-for once im actually winning something-even if it is that my internet is the slowest
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I pay for 5000/1000 so this is pretty good I think. I'm planning on doubling the speed when I change jobs in March because the new job will pay for the line
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