I used to work for Broadwing and all the other large providers are just like them. What I found to be true is that they will over subscribe their lines 100% or greater to increase revenue and minimize cost. That is why when you read the fine print they only guarantee that you will get 14kbps or something like that with a DSL connection that they sold you at 1.5Mbps. That is due to the fact that if everyone they sold bandwidth to got on the line at the same time, this "worst case scenario" would be 14kbps for everyone. They currently hide this behind the veil of well "we can not control the environment of our cables and some people just live to far out...." what a bunch of bull*hit. Let us be realistic, copper is copper, fiber is fiber and if you paid them enough they would install the right equipment to get a signal to you. Until something happens that dictates to the tear one companies that they have to provide what they sold you,... here is your paddle and the *hit creek is that away.
I was a hotmail user before Microsoft "acquired" the web service. I never knowingly signed up to be a part of Passport. So how does this affect/effect my email privacy?
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I used to work for Broadwing and all the other large providers are just like them. What I found to be true is that they will over subscribe their lines 100% or greater to increase revenue and minimize cost. That is why when you read the fine print they only guarantee that you will get 14kbps or something like that with a DSL connection that they sold you at 1.5Mbps. That is due to the fact that if everyone they sold bandwidth to got on the line at the same time, this "worst case scenario" would be 14kbps for everyone. They currently hide this behind the veil of well "we can not control the environment of our cables and some people just live to far out...." what a bunch of bull*hit. Let us be realistic, copper is copper, fiber is fiber and if you paid them enough they would install the right equipment to get a signal to you. Until something happens that dictates to the tear one companies that they have to provide what they sold you,... here is your paddle and the *hit creek is that away.
I was a hotmail user before Microsoft "acquired" the web service. I never knowingly signed up to be a part of Passport. So how does this affect/effect my email privacy?