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Default Absurd, right? The 30 foot phone line

On May 29, 4:07*pm, Franc Zabkar wrote:
On Wed, 28 May 2008 17:54:55 -0500, "Dallas"
put finger to keyboard and composed:

Still no change 1647 download 644 upload.


The Earthlink web site doesn't indicate what upload speeds are
available on the various plans. However, if your upload speed has
improved, then it would appear that the DSLAM has been adjusted to
your new plan.

Here in Australia my ISP's 1.5Mbps ADSL plan has an upload cap of
256kbps whereas the high speed plans have an upload limit of 820kbps.

- Franc Zabkar
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I have DSL. I got great results from my local phone company here in
Chicago, Illinois, by calling the repair bureau and after getting
stonewalled by a proper USA English-speaking person who was obviously
reading from a script, I said I might have to do some testing on the
line myself and that if anything did get blown up it would not be my
fault as they had refused to do the testing.

I immediately got transferred to a supervisor who told me all the bad
things they could do to me if I blew up their phone lines. I said I
was not threatening to blow up their lines, just that I would maybe
have to do some testing if they did not do it.

They were on the scene the next day and replaced a faulty drop line
from the pole to the house. Everything's now working great.

Bob Hofmann