Posted on 07/04/2015 9:23:13 AM PDT by xzins
h2>Do you think your Internet is slow? That's nothing compared to what these folks are going through.
If you live in Chicago, and try to connect via AT&T (T, Tech30) from 4 p.m to 11 p.m., speeds for certain websites and Internet services are basically like dial-up in the 1990s.
There are a handful of other examples from researchers at M-Lab, which provides tools to assess Internet performance. In some cases, Internet speeds can be as slow as 0.5 Megabits per second.
Take Seattle, where CenturyLink (CTL) customers trying to access particular sites from 9 p.m. to 10 p.m. will have unbearably slow speeds. New York's Time Warner Cable (TWC) customers from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m. and Verizon customers from 7 p.m. to 11 p.m. speeds are so slow that they can't access certain sites and services.
The same goes for Verizon (VZ, Tech30) customers in Washington trying to access particular sites at either 7 p.m. or 10 p.m.
(Excerpt) Read more at money.cnn.com ...
HA! They don’t know slow!
I have to hand my posts to a guy on a pony, who rides to the nearest telephone pole and using a telegraph sends it to some pinhead at Windstream. Replies come back the same way.
Poor little pony gets really tired at night.
Seriously, our DSL is slower than most dial up. Can’t use Netflix. They’ve been out 10-15 times because phone kept going out. They’ve been told every time that the internet sucks, and still haven’t fixed it.
Windstream bites the big one.
Mine, too. Doesn’t make sense to me.
On a very good day I’ll get 8 and 1.5
Normally, I’m around 5 and 1.
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