On Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:44:01 -0400, "
wrote:

On Sat, 18 Aug 2012 20:36:59 -0500, "HeyBub" wrote:

Metspitzer wrote:
I sure would have to think hard about moving to an area without
broadband. We have relatives that just bought a house a year ago and
they are forced to use Hughes satellite. We call that area dial up
country.

I don't see an entry for broadband on the MLS style sheets. But if a realtor
doesn't mention it, she should.

Don't believe them. Agents don't know and will tell you what you want to
hear. BTDT.

I would think you should be okay in most metropolitan areas. I'm in Houston
and www.speedtest.net just gave me the following numbers:

Ping: 11msec
Down: 24.89Mbps
Up: 3.45Mbps

Over a Comcast cable residential service.

AL AT&T DSL: Ping: 87msec
Down: .70Mb/sec
Up: .11Mb/sec

GA AT&T DSL: Ping: 53msec
Down: 3.52Mb/sec
Up: .28Mb/sec


Great, huh! If I remember, I'll report my GA numbers Monday but they're
usually about 4-5x that, still not spectacular.

Upload still sucks and often the SMTP server will simply time out when sending
a large file.