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JonC: Talking about using "Confusion" in marketing - does anyone know why every ISP uses "xxx times faster than dialup" in their adverts. We're not children - please tell us what speed you're offering. Even on ISPs web-sites, you have to muck around for ages trying to find out what exactly they're offering. Just a pet peeve of mine.....
sbiddle: It's a simple marketing ploy for those stuck on dialup. The thing that really annoys me (and I am do wonder sometimes if the commerce commission have investigated the claims) is that with the exception of TCL Cable it's impossible to get a residential broadband service in NZ that is 50x faster than dialup. . . Maybe on downloads but certainly not uploads. Therefore the service isn't 50x faster as claimed.
sbiddle:
It's a simple marketing ploy for those stuck on dialup. The thing that really annoys me (and I am do wonder sometimes if the commerce commission have investigated the claims) is that with the exception of TCL Cable it's impossible to get a residential broadband service in NZ that is 50x faster than dialup. . . Maybe on downloads but certainly not uploads. Therefore the service isn't 50x faster as claimed.
juha: What's the upstream for V.92 again? 48kbit/s? So that'd be... 2.4mbit/s. Even at 28.8, a 50x multiplier is 1.44Mbit/s.
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