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Really Misleading Ads From Broadband Providers

Posted by timothy on from the should-have-been-in-the-tos dept.

Bourdain writes "Gizmodo has put together a good compilation of the — seemingly almost criminally — misleading (largely plain wrong) advertising from our favorite local monopolies. My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook."

19 of 256 comments (clear)

  1. need more speed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apparently I need a faster connection to use sla

    1. Re:need more speed! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Funny

      Abandon the Candlejack dialup service already, it's doing you no g

  2. Facebook bloat by DriedClexler · · Score: 5, Funny

    My personal favorite is from AT&T which states you need 3mbps to use social networking sites like Facebook.

    Have you tried to use Facebook recently? Sounds about right!

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    1. Re:Facebook bloat by Donkey_Hotey · · Score: 3, Funny

      Dad?

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    2. Re:Facebook bloat by baka_toroi · · Score: 2, Funny

      Only in Slashdot such a lame meme can survive for roughly a decade.

    3. Re:Facebook bloat by FlyingBishop · · Score: 5, Funny

      Your bandwidth is irrelevant. You just need something on the order of a quad-core i7 to handle the Javascript.

      Of course, that doesn't help with the other bottleneck, which is that the entire site seems to be served from a single 486.

  3. Re:I love some of their plans by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Would you like an EXTRA big ass fries!?

  4. Re:I love some of their plans by Thelasko · · Score: 2, Funny

    Do these people even know what the word "maximum" means?

    They're smart engineers.

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  5. 3mbps for facebook... by countertrolling · · Score: 5, Funny

    Block the ads, and you can probably get away with 300 baud..

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  6. Re:I love some of their plans by SanityInAnarchy · · Score: 4, Funny

    Fusion Power Stealth... yep.

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  7. Re:I love some of their plans by stimpleton · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yes I am starting an ISP, we have named our plans based on internal combustion engine technology (from slowest to fastest):

    - Naturally Aspirated
    - Venturi Affected Plenum Chamber
    - Forced Induction (Blown)
    - F1 (120% Volumetric Efficiency

    Sign-ups seem slow...

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  8. Re:I love some of their plans by bobdotorg · · Score: 5, Funny

    Do these people even know what the word "maximum" means?

    Pffft. My ISP goes to 11.

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  9. They're right, 3mbps IS required for facebook by arikol · · Score: 3, Funny

    They're right, 3mbps IS required for facebook.

    I mean, otherwise your torrents might slow to a crawl...

  10. Re:I love some of their plans by Osty · · Score: 4, Funny

    But can I get your service with a hemi?

  11. Re:I love some of their plans by Ihmhi · · Score: 4, Funny

    - Forced Induction (Blown)

    Give me 20 minutes with an air compressor and one of their marketing executives and I'll show them what forced induction is all about.

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  12. Re:I love some of their plans by Beardo+the+Bearded · · Score: 3, Funny

    Wait for the Gillette Fusion Power Stealth Extreme Plus 3000.

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  13. Re:No difference in cars by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    The overall effect is hardly bad, from the consumer's point of view. My 1977 Ferrari 308GTB gets regularly blown into the weeds by those 250 HP Honda Accords.

  14. How about that maximum thing? by elgee · · Score: 3, Funny

    You do need a bit of speed for sniping on ebay auctions.

    But how about that maximum thing when buying pills to "extend your tool?"

  15. Re:0_0 by MobileTatsu-NJG · · Score: 2, Funny

    Actually, lag injection doesn't sound that far-fetched given the quality of most ISPs.

    It also doesn't sound far-fetched that Microsoft heats their campus by burning the bodies of orphans. Doesn't mean it's happening.

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