"So Fast You'll Swear It's Broadband"
Recently we've seen a swarm of commercials from NetZero about the 3G "The Next Generation of Dial-Up" Claming to get near-broadband speeds from a dial up modem. The truth is they can't. And even their own technical support admits that they won't. I called and spoke with a NetZero representative. He said himself "Well, it is using regular phone wire through regular lines in a regular modem, we're achieving, at our best rate, 56,800bits per second" So basically you're getting an extra 200bps, or .2Kbps. or .025KB/s. That's terrible. So don't believe the hype. Do the research. know the numbers.
posted by Chris at 6:18 PM
2 Comments:
Nice Research buddy, keep tellin us about this inside info stuff. lol. youll end up like Martha. lol jk, it is rather comforting to know dial-up isnt almost as fast as broadband, cause i thought it was the first sign of the appocolypse.
I wonder how many people are signing up and then realizing that they've been ripped off. There was a time, long ago, that people were almost satisfied with dialup speed. We're currently experiencing the same sense of "satisfaction" with broadband. Hopefully, in the near future, we'll be able to laugh at today's current broadband speeds.
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