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Re:Find All The Broadband Options At Any Street Address by joeybaker on Thursday February 24, 2011 @08:46PM (#2260680)
It gets the providers right, but completely and utterly misses on the speed estimations.
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Re:Find All The Broadband Options At Any Street Address by Natsu on Friday February 25, 2011 @04:50AM (#2261685)
I believe it goes by maximum advertised speeds.

As you might imagine, there are plenty of reasons why that would be out of touch with reality.

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Re:Find All The Broadband Options At Any Street Address by amalcon on Thursday February 24, 2011 @09:33PM (#2260795)
My speed estimates for wired providers were both about an order of magnitude high.
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