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DSL Speed

The Shuford household rejoices greatly, because the download speed was only 0.33 Mb/s earlier tonight and yesterday.  A reboot of the DSL modem got us back to what we’re supposed to be getting. 

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DSL and Video

So our new DSL connection is twice as fast as our old WildBlue satellite connection, plus a little bit. Marvelous. Except. YouTube and other video services, Joost, etc., actually load slower.  It was possible to stream a YouTube video without interruption on satellite, but DSL, even at 1.3Mbps (that’s a TESTED speed, not just an advertised one…), can [...]

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Satellites

Pending installation. WildBlue. Satellite internet. We’re hoping for an improvement beyond dial-up. We’ve had dialup for years, and we’ve waited and waited and waited for Bellsouth / AT&T to make it DSL available for us, but no such luck, even though virtually everybody and anybody else in Haywood County can easily obtain it. Just the price we pay [...]

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