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For the last 2 weeks our Internet connection has been just horrible. Our provider is telling us that Racsa hired a third-party company to do some changes and they somehow messed it up. The worst part is that Racsa doesn’t know what changes that third-party company made, so we cannot expet the problem to be fixed any time soon.
Please share if you have the same problem or if you heard any news (preferably good) on this issue.We’re having the same experience, Julia. Apparently the wireless service company, PuroWireless, connects to Amnet Cable which then uses RACSA as a pathway to the backbone in the U.S. What Puro is telling us is that all connections to the U.S. from outside the country are being very slow. So apparently it isn’t you and it isn’t me and there’s nothing we, as individuals, can do about it.
The good news is that it’s still better than dial-up.
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I just ran a speed test (www.speedtest.net) and got 688kps download/88kps upload. Neither of those is what I’m paying for, but the 688kps download is tolerable and I don’t upload much so the 88kps upload speed isn’t much of a problem.
Edited on Mar 25, 2009 12:13
Agreed, it’s still better than dial up (slightly better), but it’s very annoying. BTW, I’m with Puro, too. I was wondering if we have this problem just in Grecia or it’s the whole country (as they are saying).
I also heard that it’s specifically Grecia that got affected, so I don’t know who believe to.I can get access to some sites with no delay or problems, but others, brings up all the error messages…
Some governments do a bad job, some do a good one. I thought I read that the government is letting in some competition for the public franchise while still keeping control of the cost. Subsidized internet service…what a concept!
Some monopolies are better than others;-)
For example, paying $6 for cell and $7 for a landline is great. The service is ok, too.
On the other hand we pay twice more than we used to pay in Canada for electricity and the price is growing by the month. Interestingly enough, ICE had a huge surplus last year, coincidence?
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