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[QUOTE="Greg M, post: 216457, member: 16154"]
My Earthlink was on occasion, top notch.  I say that because my max download rate was 150kbps.  My 56k dial up was lik 5kpbs.  That is 30 times as fast!

The problem is that there is/was a lot of noise on my line and occasionally my connection would break.  Occasionally meant about every other time I used it.

To solve this issue, Earthlink has added some error correction to my line and now I can't download faster than 80kbps.  That is still a big improvement, but not what I am paying for.

A friend of mine who has cable literally gets 1mBps.  That is one megabyte per second!  In other words, about six times as fast as my best Earthlink download speed.  With cable you have to share bandwidth, but I don't know of anyone who has seen performance drop to an unacceptable level.

For a spee test, go to dslreports.com.  Click on tools and then speed test.  When working properly my Earthlink DSL would test at 1,300 download and 360 upload.  If you look at the chart, you will see that that is pretty darn fast.  Now if I could get them to fix the noise on my line without error correction!!!!!

Greg M
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