Doesn't 175 KB work out to around 1.5 mb?  That's about the rate I got when I had 1.5 Mbit from Qworst years ago.  It's my understanding that bandwidth is determined by your ISP.  The more you pay, the more you get.  With DSL the quality of the line between the phone company's local office and your home is the main limiting factor with DSL.  Of course the longer the line is, the lower the maximum possible speed is.  I live about 1000 feet or so and AT&T tells me I could get 20 Mb, but they don't offer that speed here.

On 02/25/2013 02:20 PM, Brian Cluff wrote:
I can get 4000+KBps on a regular basis over my unmodified cable to the Internet.  The very same cable will give me 48000+KBps over my Lan.

The speeds you are talking about are so low that even a badly mad, or damaged cable would achieve them thought much trouble.

Brian Cluff

On 02/25/2013 01:17 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
175kbps. or is it mbps?
:-)~MIKE~(-:


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    Good point.

    For example, 175 is my IQ, measured in Poodle Points.



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    175 is a number, without context of what unit that 175 is its just a
    number, between 150 and 200. :-)


    On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 1:07 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com
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    is 175 a normal download speed with a standard dsl speed?
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    Thanks Nathan... I appreciate that.
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    On Mon, Feb 25, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Nathan England <nathan@nmecs.com
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    Countless scientific studies in the medical community have proven
    that, in many cases, the placebos are as or more effective than the
    prescribed medication. I believe you are a primary candidate for
    placebo trials Michael!



    On Monday, February 25, 2013 11:58:16 AM Michael Havens wrote:

    remember a few weeks ago when someone post a link some young guy
    made  on speeding up a person's internet by putting a strand of cat5
    next to your existing cat 5? Everyone said that was stupid but I did
    it anyways. Well, my download speeds seem to have increased. Prior
    to my experiment I used to stay around 145 while maxing at 159. Now
    I am usually at 175 and it goes down to 159. Maybe I'm just paying
    closer attention but if someone has some spare cat 5 test it and
    tell me I'm right or just being stupid:)

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