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Old 01-19-2011, 08:37 AM  
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Originally Posted by bronco67 View Post
My throughput varies, but it can be anywhere from 10 mbps per second, all the way down to 2 on a bad day. I'm in the NY area -- hardly the boondocks. Like I said, streaming does not look anything like a BluRay. I think being in first tier area makes your connection worse, because of more plugged up traffic. If I lived somewhere like Raleigh, NC for instance, I'd probably be able to download 1 GB per minute.
Yeh your connection sucks, has to be the population? I had a similar issue when I was living in San Diego, now that I live in a small city my connection kills. So maybe it's like this... middle sized cities are good, big cities and the boonies are ass, ha.
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