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(Off topic) Internet connection.
Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 30, 2005 4:41 AM
I know this is way Off topic but im just woundering the type of connection everyone uses for the Internet nowadays. I run High speed DSL through Huntel.net. My system is an old emachines computer run on Ethernet line to my tower from the Telephone line from outside.
Remember! You don't have to reply if you don't want to. I was just woundering.
Yall have a very good weekend now.
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Posted by spbed on Saturday, April 30, 2005 6:13 AM
DSL thru Adelphia Cable . [:o)][:p]

Originally posted by BNSF railfan.

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Posted by chad thomas on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:28 PM
I run a cable company that has high speed internet service. So naturaly I use it too.
(cable companies like Cox,Adelphia,Charter,ect. offer high speed internet access with cable modems, not DSL)
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Posted by kevarc on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:34 PM
Highspeed cable - when I check it through one of the speed checking sites, it is usually near the top of the charts.
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Posted by chad thomas on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:52 PM
Yes, cable is the best option for speed. We offer 512K residential and 1.024M commercial. But if we wanted to we could do six times that, but that would require a costly equiptment purchase and we are a small company compared to the big guys. We have plans in the future of building fiber to the home. The speeds we will be able to offer then will smoke anything out there by a LONG shot.
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Posted by Anonymous on Saturday, April 30, 2005 10:59 PM
4 megabit/second speed through Comcast
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Posted by locomutt on Saturday, April 30, 2005 11:21 PM
CW & I have ours through Bell South.
We do have DSL;but wanted to keep everything on one 'bill'.

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Posted by miniwyo on Sunday, May 1, 2005 12:55 AM
I am on Wyoming.com dial up. I am lucky to get connected at 28.8K. I actually do a little dance when I do connect at 28.8K. I live outside of a town that has probably 30,000 people and the phonelines are just so old that it cant support any more than that. and I also live too far out of town that I cannot get Cable or DSL service.

RJ

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Posted by eolafan on Sunday, May 1, 2005 12:18 PM
QUOTE: Originally posted by TheAntiGates

4 megabit/second speed through Comcast


[:D] Same here
Eolafan (a.k.a. Jim)

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