JoeBarnes

Hey Bill: I noticed your post and felt compelled to add my 2c worth. I recently became an Xplornet customer too. Early on, before they signed many customers onto this tower, bandwidth seemed OK. It was clear to me that we were not reaching the 3MB speed that was advertised, (I never read the fine print) but our connection speed was acceptable considering the cost. After calling Xplornet a few times to see what's up, I was finally able to get out of them what is going on: The advertised 3 MB bandwidth is for the first 5 MB, after that they cut the speed back to 0.7MB continuous. If you are simply surfing the net pages will load fairly quickly, however if you attempt a large download, it definitely will not come to you any more than 0.7 MB/sec if you have a 3 MB package. 0.6 MB/sec continuous if you get the 1.5 MB package. A very simple way to see this yourself is: if your internet connection has been idle for a while, do a 3 finger salute to bring up the task manager on a Windows system, then click on the networking tab. Start a fairly large download and see what happens