[BC] Usefulness of EAS

[Jerry Mathis]

On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 6:27 AM, Larry Fuss <lfuss2 at cox.net> wrote:

>But that doesn't apply to territories.  There was a recent article that said
>American Samoa had the highest-priced and the slowest-speed Internet in the
>U.S.  We pay $450/mo. for a 512 kbps connection.  That is slower than
>dial-up speeds in the 80s and the price is astronomical.

>Larry Fuss

I'd like to know where you got "dial-up" speeds of 512 kbps. Even ISDN is limited to 128 kbps. I was lucky to get 48 kbps when I was on dialup. Most people nowadays are lucky to get 18 kbps, since AT&T quit maintaining their phone lines.

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Jerry Mathis