Hi Mike,
Fiber/fibre is a great help, no matter how you choose to spell it!
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
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From: "Mike Lazzari" <watershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "1" <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Tuesday, June 12, 2012 6:48 PM
Subject: Re: [OM] OT: I understand how Brian feels
> Woohoo! The friendly telephone tech just left and after cranking open
> the bits and I'm now seeing the term, _Mbps_ in the download speed
> stats. North of 3.0mbps to be exact. This winter the local telecom
> upgraded the service to the local hub to fibre. We're still about 2+mi
> of rusty wire away but theoretically able to go up to 5mbps. After
> throttling back to 4mbps for overhead and factoring in the 2mi of rusty
> wire I'm really happy. Took a couple of days to beat back the
> attenuation numbers to something reasonable. Good to be in the 20th
> Century finally ;) Now to figure out how to stream Netflix.
>
> FWIW here are some numbers I was posting previously:
> <http://www.interisland.net/watershed/mike/speedtest20.jpg>
>
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