I'm looking for a new provider, since my current (Verizon) sucks dick. Download and uploads are no where near what they advertised when I purchased, etc etc.
I was thinking of getting the 1.5mb/384kb connection from CoVad: http://www.covad.com/services_dsl_soho.shtml
Could I get some input, or suggestions?
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Anonymous2006-09-21 0:33
What were they advertising? Understand that they usually advertise in kilobits (kb) or Megabits (Mb) per second, not kilobytes (kB) or Megabytes (MB) to make it sound more impressive. Eight bits per byte, BTW. Also note that those rates are usually offered as a maximum without an Quality of Service (QoS). For example, imagine there's 20 other people on a 10Mb/s line. Each of those people is on a 1.5Mb/s connection. If the line is under heavy load, you won't be able to max your connection. This happens all the time, and it's getting worse (at least, here in America) because the telcos are reluctant to invest in more bandwidth and instead cram more and more people per line. So yeah, be careful with the terms they use and READ EVERY WORD OF THE CONTRACT.