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Verizon DSL Speed Upgrade offer
Name: XpUser Date: May 23, 2009 at 08:54:19 Pacific OS: Vista XP Win7 CPU/Ram: NA Product: N/a / N/A Subcategory: General
Comment:
Yesterday, I received in the mail Verizon offer to upgrade my DSL speed to 7.1 Mbps for $29.99 for the first six months, and $39.99 thereafter, with one year commitment.
At present time, my up/down speed is 3360/608 kbps that cost me $29.95 per month.
The speed I have suits us more than adequate in the sense that we do not watch much video clips. We just don't have time for it.
Here is our dilemma - Would we be wasting money if we go for it after the first six months? What do you guys & gals think?
Name: guapo Date: May 23, 2009 at 15:54:05 Pacific
Reply:
I'm like you. I don't need any more than I already have. I wouldn't give them any more money.
I have Verizon FIOS. The speeds were terrible until I ran TCPOptimizer from speedguide.net Then I had the advertised speeds. You might want to try it. It's for XP or 2000. There are special instructions for Vista.
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Response Number 2
Name: jefro Date: May 24, 2009 at 15:33:12 Pacific
Reply:
Sounds kind of high already.
I would normally say that you could recover bandwidth by using best practices but my guess is you already do that.
Run a wireshark view of it to or other tools like netstat.
"Best Practices", Event viewer, host file, perfmon, antivirus, anti-spyware, Live CD's, backups, are in my top 10
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